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- Wegmans is introducing its Instacart service in Columbia, Crofton, Owings Mills, Germantown and Woodmore.
- Construction of an apartment building will begin soon in Foundry Row, the $140 million retail complex built in Owings Mills on the site of the old Solo Cup plant, according to the project’s developers.
- Pat Baldwin and Dan Zakai, co-owners of the developing 818 Market, have set Oct. 1, 2019, as their grand opening date after construction was delayed by flooding last year and their business plan expanded.
- Wegmans Food Markets is recalling four cauliflower-based products over possible E. coli contamination.
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- A look at the Baltimore-area stores open on Thanksgiving Day.
- Wegmans is rolling out an app to help visually impaired and blind customers grocery shop in stores.
- Farmers were already worried that this growing season would be hampered by a cold, wet spring, and weeks of developing drought conditions. Now, they're trying to salvage what crops survived those challenges and have recently been drowning in flooded fields or afflicted with mold or disease.
- Tessemae’s, a fast-growing maker of natural salad dressings based in Essex, has been sued in recent months by a handful of its suppliers, including an Elkridge-based contract manufacturer that filed a lawsuit earlier this month seeking more than $150,000 in damages.
- At last, the wait is over. More than 12,000 readers voted for their favorite local people, businesses and organizations in the 2017 Best of Harford County contest.
- Columbia-based Rethink Water says its brand is revolutionizing the way people drink water, offering flavored boxed water for kids that will be in 10,000 stores this year.
- Construction for 818 Market, a gourmet grocery store planned for Frederick Road in Catonsville, is set to begin in March.
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- County funds should be the boost Towson Row needs, but it remains to be seen whether it's a boon or a detriment to Reisterstown-area Councilwoman Vicki Almond, who supported the funding.
- Deer, goose, quail and other wild game can be legally hunted in Maryland, allowing chefs and home cooks to experiment with new local flavors. And non-hunters can try out the recipes with farm-raised meats.
- The shopping landscape is changing and it will be interesting to see what Kimco Realty will be bringing to the former Owings Mills Mall site in addition to a planned Costco warehouse.
- Columbia native Ian Jones-Quartey created an animated series/video game for Cartoon Network titled, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes.
- Harford liquor board gives approval for Boston's restaurant to hold outdoor events with alcohol service, gives approval for beer and wine service in expanded Island Spice restaurant in Edgewood
- Instacart has expanded its Maryland grocery delivery service to Wegmans Food Markets in Columbia, Hunt Valley, Owings Mills and Crofton, enabling home delivery in as little as an hour.
- Maryland consumers will likely see the Lidl banner start to pop up on new supermarkets in the next year as the German grocer moves into the U.S. market in a big way.
- DinnerTime, a Baltimore-based meal planning technology company, has teamed with online grocer Peapod, allowing shoppers to have meal ingredients delivered.
- Growing ranks of consumers select brands and retailers based on whether they appear to lean conservative or liberal and shun those that take stands opposed to their beliefs.
- A Baltimore developer's plan to turn a sleepy Falls Road shopping strip that backs into Lake Roland Park into a bustling "village," with restaurants, offices and six-story apartment building, has some neighbors, worried about the project's impact on the increasingly popular park, the environment and traffic.
- A Baltimore County police officer has been charged with second-degree assault after investigators say video footage from a Baltimore police helicopter showed him kicking a man.
- Lisa Christhilf, the culinary arts instructor at Western School of Technology in Catonsville, was named the 2016-17 Chef Educator of the Year by the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the American Culinary Federation.
- Wegmans Food Markets is hiring part-time and full-time workers at Maryland stores including, Abingdon, Columbia, Gambrills, Hunt Valley and Owings Mills
- Five more restaurants and stores have opened at Foundry Row, the new $140 million retail center in Owings Mills anchored by Wegmans Food Market, developer Greenberg Gibbons and Vanguard said Tuesday.
- Endcaps were being stocked, the standalone refrigerators were being filled and frozen fish was being put in the cases – employees have been busy all weekend preparing for Wednesday's early morning opening of Safeway in Brierhill Shopping Center, which has been closed for 10 months. It's been a long process to re-open the store that closed Jan. 23 after the roof collapsed under 30-plus inches of snow.
- The Howard County Planning Board voted unanimously to change the renovation schedule for Merriweather Post Pavilion, a popular outdoor amphitheater in Columbia.
- How should you vote on Balto. Co. Question K? It doesn't really matter.
- Matt LePore found himself with no shortage of applicants when gearing up to open the eighth Wegmans in Maryland.
- On Sept. 18, Wegmans will open its eighth Maryland store at Foundry Row, a new 350,000-square-foot retail center at the intersection of Reisterstown and Painters Mill roads, previous home of Solo Cup's manufacturing site.
- Just two weeks before its grand opening, the Owings Mills Wegmans has already begun giving food away.
- Wegmans Food Markets has begun hiring for 325 part-time positions at its new location in Owings Mills, scheduled to open Sept. 18. The grocery chain began hiring for roughly 100 full-time jobs in February for the store located in Foundry Row, a retail and office complex being developed by the Owings Mills firm Greenberg Gibbons at Reisterstown and Painters Mill roads. Some full-time positions remain available.
- Every week, some meat in Giant supermarkets goes unsold. In years past, it was thrown away, but it won't go to waste anymore. Now it's frozen and sent to local food banks.
- Bar Louie restaurant and ten other new tenants have signed on to the Foundry Row retail and office project in Owings Mills that will be anchored by Wegmans Food Markets, the developer said Thursday.
- New rules proposed by the Obama administration would require seafood importers to record more information about the who, what, where and when of their products, in an effort to fight illegal fishing and seafood fraud.
- Lynn Faulkner and her daughter Sophia were having lunch on a snow day at Panera Bread restaurant in Abingdon just before noon Wednesday when Sophia heard what she thought was glass breaking. Then the 15-year-old turned and saw a sheriff's deputy shot in the head. She said she froze as she tried to process what was happening.
- Two Harford County sheriff¿s deputies have died after a shooting both inside and near a restaurant in Abingdon late Wednesday morning, the head of the department said.
- Wegmans Food Markets began hiring for 150 full-time positions Monday for its Owings Mills store, which is set to open this fall.
- Pete Truby's idea to sprinkle sea salt on dark chocolate and turn the recipe into a business grew out of a necessity of sorts.
- Celebrate the 100th birthday of Wegmans this Saturday at 11 a.m. with a free piece of cake.
- Wegmans installed induction hearing loops, designed to deliver speech clearly to hearing aids or implants in noisy environments, in 17 stores last year, including the one at Hunt Valley Towne Center, after testing the technology at two stores near its headquarters in Rochester, N.Y. Besides checkout lanes, loops are available at the pharmacy and customer service department.
- Wegmans recalls more than 1,100 pounds of uninspected chicken products that were sold in stores, including its seven Maryland supermarkets.
- The owner of Michele's Granola briefly doubted her decision years ago to start her own business — and for good reason. A pricey commercial oven delivered to her new bakery in Curtis Bay was left on the sidewalk. And it was much too big to fit in the front door.
- How would you like to shop at a state-of-the-art outlet mall in Baltimore County on Black Friday and the rest of the holiday season?
- A businessman who hoped to open a liquor store above the Wegmans supermarket in Columbia has withdrawn his application, according to his lawyer.
- The debate over whether a beer, wine and liquor should be allowed in the same building as a Wegmans grocery store in Columbia will begin again this week.