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Updated: 2022-08-12 18:40:31

Grocery store eliminates food desert in Reading neighborhood

Ideal Food Basket, a fresh produce grocery store, opened last Tuesday; with the long-anticipated snipping of their red ribbon a neighborhood food desert in Reading was eliminated.

By Aniya Faulcon

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‘I’m ready to face anything head-on:’ Grocery store worker celebrates getting a vaccine after months of waiting

Grocery store workers are among those who have borne the brunt of COVID-19 risk for well over a year. Vaccines, the Wolf administration says, are how the commonwealth is saying thank you.

By Sam Dunklau

Grocery workers in Philadelphia are getting coronavirus. Will your store let you know?

The stores are a truly “essential” place where all sorts of people have reason to flock.
By Laura Benshoff/WHYY

Grocery store workers are on the coronavirus front lines

Our documentary looks at the food system's essential workers
By Joseph Darius Jaafari/PA Post
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