Grocery stores

Regulator blocks exemption for Wolt Market, raising prospect of forced sale

Wolt’s dominance in the market created fears that “combining platform operation with ownership of a food retail chain operating on it could create market distortions.”

WOLT delivery people outside Sarona market in Tel Aviv, November 18, 2025.
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Survival tips for grocery shopping in Israel

 The wedding of Yehuda and Hodaya, Inset bottom-right, fallen IDF sgt. Eliyahu Moshe Zimbalist.

Beyond the headlines: Carrying the light forward - opinion

 What's next? Will we pay for store shelf arrangers or for cleaning the store?

January CPI reading lifts inflation, housing prices rise


Man dons KKK hood in grocery store to meet face mask requirements

The woman who took the initial photograph, identified in the article as Melissa S, said she was in "total disbelief" when she saw the hooded man.

A Beersheba grocery store

Costco requiring all guests and employees to wear face coverings in store

Children under the age of two will not be required to follow these instructions, nor will those unable to wear a face covering due underlying medical conditions.

People wear masks as they wait to enter a Costco store during the outbreak of coronavirus in Washington

California woman charged with felony after 'licking' $1,800 in groceries

Items included meat, alcohol and jewelry.

A Beersheba grocery store

Store throws out $35k of food after woman coughs on it as a prank

The US Department of Justice confirmed on Wednesday that people who intentionally spread the novel coronavirus could be charged with terrorism.

A Beersheba grocery store

Supermarket chain apologizes as open ham products dumped in kosher section

The incident took place Monday afternoon in a store in Barkingside, a town in north Ilford, in the London borough of Redbridge.

Ham sandwich

A plastic-free world for this Rosh Hashanah

Let’s turn the page and commit to becoming more conscious of our ways and habits.

PLASTIC BOTTLE floats in the Mediterranean Sea, at Zikim beach near Ashkelon

Nitzat Haduvdevan ends its plastic bags

The stores will use sturdy paper bags in two sizes: 28 cm. x 29cm. and 32 cm. x 26cm. The cost of each paper bag will be about 10 agorot.

Environmentally friendly bag (Illustrative)

Kosher markets hate cleaning for Passover as much as you

If you thought your Passover prep was hard, you’ve got nothing on the managers of Jewish supermarkets.

Packages of Passover Matzos sit in the window of a store on the lower east side of New York

Shabbat law continues to create conflict for the Israeli PM

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties demanded that the so-called grocery stores bill be passed in November in the wake of what they have deemed to be unacceptable level public Shabbat desecration.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem.

Shabbat legislation passes first vote after night bargaining in Knesset

The bill, which will require stores to receive permission from the Interior Minister to remain open on Saturdays, passed a first reading 59-54.

The Knesset in session: The legislature is going to be working overtime.