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"In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming exposé, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry. Combining...
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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"From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-- two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with 'The Winter of Our Discontent, ' he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works...
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"Present Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home determined to finally follow her long-denied dream of running Old Depot Grocery alongside her mother and grandmother. But when she arrives, her mother, Rosemary, announces to her that the store is closing. Sarah and her grandmother, Glory Ann, make a pact to save the store, but Rosemary has worked her entire life to make sure her daughter...
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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40 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The Rabbids find a grocery store and at first think the only fun thing to do is knock over displays, but then they discover the freezer section.
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English
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Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it--the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food--how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us--there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consuming wisely could be hiding in plain sight--in the aisles of your local supermarket. Using...
6) The mist
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Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. When an elderly...
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English
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Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love--and a work environment that your employees love being a part of--using this blueprint from Trader Joe's visionary founder, Joe Coulombe.
Coulombe founded what would become Trader Joe's in the late 1960s and helped shape it into the quirky food chain it is today. Realizing early on that he could not compete and win by playing the same game his bigger competitors were playing, he decided...
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The likeable, magnetic, bodega owner Usnavi saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes, imagines, and sings about a better life. Meanwhile, his tight-knit community faces the challenge of gentrification, losing their homes while trying to better themselves and hold on to their cultures.
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English
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"An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food - from where it's grown to how we buy it - is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior"--
Underhill provides an entertaining and timely exploration of how our food is in the midst of a transformation. From where it's grown to how we buy it, food intersects with every...
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Sunflower journeys volume 2307 & 2308
Publisher
KTWU/Channel 11
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Sunflower journeys volume 2301 & 2302
Publisher
KTWU/Channel 11
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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