Food and Sustainability

Residents Of North Sacramento Food Desert Welcome Discount Grocery Store

September 13, 2018 | Julia Mitric

North Sacramento has big pockets of food deserts where residents have to leave the neighborhood to find a full-service grocery store. Now, some are hopeful a discount grocery store will begin to change the landscape.

Yolo County Adopts Color-Coded Food Safety Placards

July 5, 2017 | Steve Milne

Starting today in Yolo County, restaurants, grocery stores, delis and other food businesses will begin displaying color-coded placards to rate food safety inspection results. It's modeled after a system Sacramento County started a decade ago.

Environment

California Egg Standards Change January 1st

December 24, 2014 | Amy Quinton

On January 1 every egg sold at a grocery store in California must meet new standards that require hens have more space.

Business

Business Journal: Midtown Grocery War; Residential Development; Pacific Ethanol

August 1, 2014

It looks like midtown will finally be getting a Whole Foods grocery store. A local developer this week announced the store would be on the ground floor of a new mixed-use project at 20th & L streets.