supply chain

The pandemic has caused two major disruptions to the meat supply chain. The first was shifting consumer behaviors including restaurant and school closures that paralyzed an entire distribution channel. The second impacted the industry in an unimaginable way; more than 20,000 meat processing plant workers have gotten sick, 74 have died and dozens of plants have been forced to shut down.

Fresh, never frozen — if you can get it. Wendy’s restaurants in some locations across the country have temporarily booted burgers from their menus due to coronavirus-related closures at meat processing facilities that have disrupted the meat industry. “Where’s the beef?” was a common refrain on Twitter bemoaning the outages. That’s a reference to the famous Wendy’s marketing catch-phrase...

Amazon’s sprawling marketplace, consisting of millions of third-party sellers, has become a go-to site for many grocery shoppers, especially since the company’s acquisition of Whole Foods over two years ago. But an increasing number of consumers are finding that, just as the broader Amazon Marketplace has a major issue with counterfeits and unsafe products, the grocery section is littered with...

You’ll be able to shop at Toys R Us online again — thanks to a little help from Target. Target announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with the parent company of the Toys R Us brand, TRU Kids, to help it relaunch ToysRUs.com. The deal will allow Toys R Us to once again have an online presence, post bankruptcy, as...

Law enforcement agencies across California are recovering record numbers of unserialized guns or “ghost guns” used in crimes, according to a joint investigation by NBC and The Trace.

Joint Investigation finds more homemade guns used in crimes. NBC 7’s Rory Devine has more.

Many pet owners treat their fur babies like their children. This means feeding them things that they would eat themselves.

With Britain’s departure from the European Union likely to be put on hold, some Brexit supporters fear their dream is dying. But they aren’t giving up without a fight — or at least, a long walk. Hard-core Brexiteers led by former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage set out Saturday on a two-week “Leave Means Leave” march between northeast England...

The Chinese government lashed out Thursday at recent U.S. media reports about forced labor of mostly ethnic Muslim detainees in China’s far western Xinjiang region. The stories are “a malicious attack that severely distorts the fact,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing in response to a question from the state-run People’s Daily newspaper. “It goes...

Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside. Behind locked gates, men and women are sewing sportswear that can end up on U.S. college campuses and sports teams.

The CDC says nine more people have been reported sick in the E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce since the federal agency’s last update on Nov. 26, and New Jersey is one of the worst-hit states.

After repeated food poisoning outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce, the produce industry is confronting the failure of its own safety measures in preventing contaminations. The E. coli outbreak announced just before Thanksgiving follows one in the spring that sickened more than 200 people and killed five, and another last year that sickened 25 and killed one. No deaths have been...

The Trump administration has imposed restrictions on technology exports to a state-supported Chinese semiconductor maker, citing national security grounds amid a mounting tariff battle. The controls imposed Monday on Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. reflect concern Chinese competition could drive American technology suppliers out of business, leaving the military without secure sources of components. Beijing has spent heavily to build...

Target is “deeply troubled” by the Trump administration’s escalating trade war, saying it threatens to undermine the U.S. economy, penalizes American families and raises prices on everything from backpacks to playpens. Target is among the hundreds of retailers and other companies pushing back against President Donald Trump’s new 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods.

An Associated Press investigation traced the supply chain of New York-based distributor Sea To Table to other parts of the world, where fishermen described working under slave-like conditions with little regard for marine life.

The J.M. Smucker Co. is withdrawing some shipments of dog food amid reports that it could be tainted with traces of a drug used to euthanize animals. The company said Thursday it is pulling back shipments of several varieties of wet canned Gravy Train, Kibble ‘N Bits, Skippy and Ol’ Roy brands. It said it is investigating how the euthanasia...

Ryan Goldman held his hand to the mouth of the roaring blow dryer, feeling its power and heat.

Ivanka Trump described the hurdles faced by women during a speech Tuesday at a business conference in India, which is treating her trip like a royal visit. But her solo outing also highlighted questions about whether her message of empowering poor women matches her actions. Trump’s speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the southern city of Hyderabad was broadcast...

The driver in a gang-related car-to-car shooting in Encanto in 1995 that killed a young mother in front of her boyfriend and 10-month-old daughter was sentenced today to eight years in state prison.

Nearly 100,000 jobs in San Diego County are dependent on the North American Free Trade Agreement, but that agreement doesn’t have the backing of President Trump.