Tuesday, November 9, 2021

NEWS / An Amazon supermarket in West Boca? Building nearing completion for a grocery store

No checkout lines. Customers being guided by Alexa assistants. It’s all part of Amazon’s vision for its nationwide grocery chain, which is coming to South Florida.

NEW / Will employees get stiffed again in Penn Dutch lawsuit settlement?

Of the long line of creditors left unpaid after a listeria outbreak forced Penn Dutch Meat & Seafood Market to close its Margate and Hollywood locations, it’s likely that the stores’ employees felt the sharpest financial pinch. Their final paychecks bounced after the stores closed their doors for good in September 2019, court records show. 

NEW / The new food hall at Miami’s Brightline station is open. Here’s what commuters will love


Start getting used to the idea of hanging out in train stations for fun. 

EVENT / South Beach Wine & Food Festival has more events, same COVID rules. Tickets now available

Guy Fieri is turning the sands of South Beach into Flavortown. The rock ‘n’ roll Food Network chef is hosting a new “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” themed event to kickoff the first day of the 2022 South Beach Wine & Food Festival, which started selling tickets today for Capital One credit card holders. The four-day festival, which runs Feb. 24-27, is returning to a more normal state than last year, when it pushed back the event three months and cut capacity to about a third. But it will still require guests, chefs and staff to state that they have been vaccinated or have tested negative for COVID-19. Tickets for the general public will go on sale starting Nov. 15. 

Popular cannabis product Delta-8 has some federal agencies and elected officials urging caution when using


MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – It can be purchased in just about any smoke shop, gas station and online. Delta-8 THC is sold in several forms, including vapes, tinctures, candy gummies and versions that can be smoked. “It’s one of our biggest selling things”, one smoke shop employee told Channel 10′s Amy VIteri. “We sell a lot of Delta-8.” Because it comes from hemp, the THC isomer is technically legal in most states, for now. In recent weeks, the FDA and CDC both issued warnings about Delta-8 products, citing serious health risks.