Errol Schweizer

Austin

Contributor at Forbes

Host at The Checkout

Writer at The Checkout Grocery Update

Publisher, The Checkout Grocery Update. ⬇️ Host, @CheckoutRadio. Bronx Boy, occasional Texan. Grocery lifer. @IPESFood

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Articles

Why New Yorkers Voted For Public Grocery Stores

12 hours ago | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 24: New York mayoral candidate, State Rep. Zohran Mamdani (D-NY) speaks to ... More supporters during an election night gathering. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe Democratic mayoral primary victory of New York City’s Zohran Mandani has attracted global attention. The 33 year old from Queens won due to an impressive grassroots field campaign and a focus on economic justice issues.
What The C&S Acquisition Of SpartanNash Means For Grocers

3 days ago | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

Grocery wholesaler C&S has acquired rival Spartan-Nash for $1.77 billion. gettyIn the wake of the recent UNFI cyberattack-driven product outages that have impacted thousands of grocery stores, two of the largest grocery wholesalers are now becoming one. C&S, a privately-held distributor with over $23 billion in annual sales, is acquiring publicly-traded SpartanNash for $1.77 billion.
What The Cyberattack On UNFI Reveals About The U.S. Grocery Industry

1 week ago | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

Empty shelves at a Texas Whole Foods store. Errol Schweizer On June 5th, a cyberattack crippled United Natural Foods (UNFI), a $30 billion grocery wholesaler and Whole Foods Market’s largest supplier. UNFI also services 15,000+ other supermarkets, cooperatives, health food stores and chain stores, and is not yet sure when their ordering and replenishment systems will be able to fully supply their retail customers.
How Underinvestment Is Starving Grocery Stores And Feeding Wall Street

1 month ago | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

A new report on Kroger and Albertsons reveals the stunning impacts of continued underinvestment and understaffing in retail stores, all while stock buybacks and Ecommerce losses have skyrocketed. Commissioned by a group of retail and wholesale unions currently in contract negotiations, Bullies At The Table surveys employees across stores in three states and underscores how customers and retail workers are paying the price for the misguided priorities of two of America’s largest grocery chains.
Episode 185: Burlap & Barrel — The Checkout

2 months ago | thecheckoutradio.com | Errol Schweizer

The Checkout checks in with Ethan Frisch and Ori Zohar of Burlap & Barrel. Burlap & Barrel is a Public Benefit Corporation building new international spice supply chains that are equitable, transparent and traceable, working towards ending inequality and exploitation in food systems that disenfranchise skilled farmers. Follow The Checkout on Facebook - Instagram - Twitter. Stream The Checkout on Apple Podcasts - Spotify - Stitcher - Google Podcast
Why Faster Meat Processing Lines Won’t Make America Healthy Again

Mar 24, 2025 | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

The Trump USDA continues its regressive policy approach to food and agriculture. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently instructed the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to allow increased line speeds at pork and poultry plants, while no longer requiring plants to submit data on worker safety.
How Grocery Workers Are Still Bearing The Scars Of Covid-19

Mar 10, 2025 | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

A new survey examines the experiences of frontline grocery store and drug retail workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lasting effects five years later. As farmworkers start to fall ill with a rapidly evolving avian flu, the lessons of the last pandemic loom large for the food industry. Around 100,000 grocery workers fell ill and hundreds died from the Covid-19 pandemic. These deaths climbed into the thousands when families and community members of food workers were included in statistics.
How The Purpose Pledge Is Redefining Business Ethics In The Trump Era

Mar 3, 2025 | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

A new coalition of food and wellness companies is looking to redefine business ethics in the Trump era. Called The Purpose Pledge, these companies are creating a community of practice based on economic fairness, environmental sustainability, and independent governance. As major food and beverage conglomerates are beating a hasty retreat from their previous ESG, sustainability and DEI commitments, The Purpose Pledge is pointing a new way forward.
Why Over 10,000 Kroger Workers Are Striking In Denver

Feb 6, 2025 | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

In Colorado, a union representing over 10,000 employees at 77 Kroger-owned King Soopers stores has called an unfair labor practices (ULP) strike. This will be the second strike in three years for UFCW Local 7 members, who walked off the job in 2022 demanding materially better wages, pension and health benefits and an end to the unpopular multi-tiered wage system, where some workers were paid significantly less for doing the same work as others.
How Philadelphia Whole Foods Clerks Won Their Union Drive

Feb 4, 2025 | forbes.com | Errol Schweizer

On January 28th, 130 Philadelphia Whole Foods employees at the grocer’s Center City location voted to approve the company’s first trade union in nearly 20 years. The nascent union put out the following statement:“Yesterday, we, the workers of Whole Foods’ flagship store in Center City Philadelphia, made history by voting to unionize with UFCW Local 1776.