Downtown Brooklyn will become the first outpost of an emerging New York University empire, thanks to Thursday’s vote by Polytechnic University to be acquired by the Manhattan school. The unification ...

What began as a marketing flourish in the early 20th century has become a quiet backbone of modern grocery retail.

Woolworths has described its new plan to reduce food waste as a “revolutionary concept”, but a leading environmentalist has slammed the decision as showing a lack of “foresight”. By putting tiny ...

Some 137.5 million of the stickers have already been taken off fruit and vegetables and others will go over the next 12 months. They have previously been seen as essential in helping shoppers and ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A University of Oregon business professor is on a mission to get barcode stickers on produce banned at the grocery store. She’s using artwork, made of those labels, to get people ...

A nation-leading ban on plastic fruit stickers has been paused in one state over fears the cost will prove too great for farmers. The state was set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to ...

Probably a good thing Paul Cezanne did his painting a hundred years ago. You would hate to see all his still-life fruit immortalized in a wooden bowl with a bunch of plastic produce stickers ruining ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. In the three decades since it was first introduced, the plastic, coin-sized sticker you see on fruit and ...

You’re going for a hike this weekend and you need a portable, healthy snack. As you do your normal grocery run, you grab a delicious banana from the rack. To pay for the banana, you scan a produce ...

South Australia has delayed the rollout of a nation-leading ban on plastic fruit stickers over fears the cost will be too much for farmers. The state was set to become the first jurisdiction in the ...

Ironically, organic fruit and vegetables are often packaged and labeled with plastic. But such unnecessary packaging and plastic stickers could be replaced by an innovative laser mark. Will it catch ...