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[DLBN] Stop & Shop says it’s been lowering prices on thousands of items at its stores across the Northeast since 2024.
But some items like avocados can jump from 99 cents one day to nearly double that the next.

https://www.supermarketnews.com/company-news/stop-shop-cuts-more-prices

[DLBN] A lawsuit charges WMT’s Parent’s Choice baby food contains heavy metals, which can cause autism.
In 2021 a U.S. House Oversight Committee found “dangerous” levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury in some baby food products.

https://www.supermarketnews.com/center-store/walmart-named-in-latest-baby-food-suit?utm_rid=CPG06000001744798&_mc=em_SN_News_SN%20Daily%20News%20Updata_News_NL_06022026&utm_campaign=70562&utm_medium=email&elq2=eebfd4ac54e54bed9301abff4a21bfc8&sp_eh=e25708b3d155db5b4cdca8f66397c14a7f531c0de801182cef8248e896ed3b25

[DLBN] KROGER GETS EGGED for failing to reach its goal of selling 100% cage-free eggs by 2025. The grocer now wants to hit 70% cage-free by 2030. Is its goal a big yoke?

https://www.supermarketnews.com/dairy/nonprofit-group-presses-kroger-about-cage-free-eggs.

[DLBN] TRUMP SETTLES WITH TRUMP: He receives a $1.7 B fund to pay Jan 6th insurrectionists, a permanent IRS audit shield for his family, & wipes out the $100 M Trump owes US in back taxes.
—Free & Fair Democracy PAC

[DLBN] WMT may get $2.4 B in tariff refunds—which were higher costs passed into its shoppers—so WMT plans to “support price cuts” for shoppers. They should cut gas prices by $1/gallon for 2.4 B gallons.

https://www.retaildive.com/news/walmart-tariff-refunds-price-cuts-low-prices-strategy/821033/

[DLBN] “Two people are dead, another is in critical condition after a shooting at WMT” gas station in Gulfport, MS. WMT is the most dangerous place in America to shop.”

https://www.wlox.com/2026/05/26/shooting-walmart-gas-station-gulfport-leaves-man-woman-dead-another-critically-injured/.

[DLBN]: HOLD THE RANCH: Parmesan Ranch seasoning sold at WMT has been recalled over fears it could contain salmonella — a bacteria that can trigger fatal infections.

Walmart issues nationwide recall for Blackstone parmesan ranch seasoning over fatal infection risk The affected ingredient was supplied to a third-party manufacturer and later used in Blackstone’s Parmesan Ranch seasoning, according to the FDA.

[DLBN] “Bezos’s Amazon won’t allow any seller on the site to post lower prices on any other site, and Bezos won’t allow his Washington Post editorial page to criticize Trump.” —Robert Reich

[DLBN] A coalition is challenging the $1.78 B “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” which the DOJ created with Trump, allowing Trump to distribute tax dollars to benefit people who claim they were victims of alleged “lawfare” or “weaponization” by Democrats.

https://www.commoncause.org/press/individuals-organizations-harmed-by-the-trump-vance-administration-sue-to-block-1-776-billion-slush-fund/?link_id=6&can_id=bf105c37430844170c83cc823f42ff2a&source=email-the-peoples-watchdog-newsletter-may-9&email_referrer=email_3252140&email_subject=the-peoples-watchdog-newsletter-may-23

[DLBN] There have been 17 crashes of Tesla’s Robotaxis in Austin over 9 months, 7 were the taxis’ fault. In April, “CEO Elon Musk incorrectly said that there hadn’t been a single Robotaxi accident.”

https://sherwood.news/tech/tesla-finally-reported-un-redacted-information-about-its-robotaxi-crashes/?utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20260518&utm_content=00f12182a67aae3bacc2bf1b283c6072