Justice: No gasoline shortage in West Virginia By
May 12, 2021 - 2:43 pm
CHARLESTON, W.Va. A national gasoline expert tweeted Wednesday afternoon that 4% of gas stations in West Virginia were without gasoline in connection with the skyrocketing demand that began after the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline following a May 7 cyber attack.
Patrick De Haan of gasbuddy.com listed West Virginia under his ‘newly added’ category. Almost every other state has a higher percent of stations without gas. North Carolina leads the way at 65% with Virginia at 44%.
Gasoline Outages by state, percent of all stations without gasoline:
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Gov. Jim Justice said Wednesday there’s no gasoline shortage in West Virginia.
West Virginia stations expect minimal effects from pipeline shutdown By
May 11, 2021 - 11:30 am
CHARLESTON, W.Va. Word of gas shortages in the Carolinas and across the south is fueling a much bigger problem, according to the head of the Oil Marketers and Grocers Association of West Virginia.
Traci Nelson
OMEGA President Traci Nelson told MetroNews Tuesday national news stories about stations in the in other states running out of fuel can make a bad situation even worse.
“We saw the same situation last year with toilet paper. People panic when they think they’re going to run out of something and that’s what creates outages and shortages,” she said.
City working on hero pay for some essential workers
Tracy Lehr / NewsChannel 3-12
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Hero pay could soon put extra money in the pockets of workers at large grocery and drug stores in the city of Santa Barbara.
The City Council voted 5-1 to pass an emergency ordinance establishing 60 days of $5.00 and hour hero pay for grocery and drug retail workers at companies with at least 300 employees nationwide.
Meagan Harmon and Alejandro Gutierrez introduced the hazard pay idea that has been adopted in about 30 other California communities. Eric Friedman recused himself from the vote due to a conflict of interest. He works at Trader Joe s. Mike Jordon was the only council member to vote against the idea.
Presented by Vermont Specialty Food Association and Vermont Retail & Grocers Association
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s food producers and retailers are, once again, partnering to bring delicious value-added foods to stores near you. As a result of COVID-19, many in-person events cancelled through 2021, the Vermont Specialty Food Association (VSFA) and the Vermont Retail and Grocers Association (VRGA) continue their virtual tastings series to promote Vermont brands to Vermont stores and wholesalers.
The 2021 Virtual Tasting Series invites some of Vermont’s best specialty food and beverage producers (think maple, chocolate, jams, coffee, pickles, snacks, and everything in between) to pitch to wholesale buyers of all shapes and sizes.
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In Shrewsbury, Pierce s Store, reopened as a cooperative in 2009, is thriving. Manager Elana Levin was too busy for an interview. Photos by C.B. Hall
by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine If you don t have a store, you can t really have a town, Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a
New York Times op-ed three years ago.
It s a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – and the Vermont brand – contend with today s economic forces. From Albany in the state s northeast to West Rupert in the southwest, dozens of communities have confronted what it means to see their local stores endangered, or closed.