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Expect big changes this week in how two grocery store chains in the D.C. area try to keep shoppers safe. Giant Food and Safeway each announced they will implement one-way aisle traffic and limit store occupancy in all D.C.-area stores by the end of the week. Giant will have the policies in place Thursday and Safeway will have them...

Someone wearing a mask robbed a grocery store at knifepoint Tuesday afternoon in Frederick County, Maryland. The robbery occurred at about 12:15 p.m. at a Safeway store in Middletown, the county sheriff’s office said on Twitter. Many grocery stores in the Washington, D.C., region are busy as people try to stock up with food and supplies amid the coronavirus...

Workers at Washington, D.C., area Safeway grocery stores avoided a planned strike vote, after reaching an agreement with the company over pension benefits. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 said Thursday that after six months of negotiations, they have reached a deal. Under the deal, the company would put an additional $74.4 million into pensions and pay $49.5 million…

Workers at D.C. area Safeway grocery stores are set to vote Thursday on whether to walkout of work and strike after negotiations over wages and benefits sputtered. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

A tentative agreement between Giant Food and union employees has been reached, but a possible strike by Safeway employees looms. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan reports.

A Safeway grocery store distribution center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, is set to close in August, leaving 520 employees without a job, according to a notice through the Maryland Department of Labor on Wednesday.  In 2016, there were plans to close the warehouse, but soon after, those plans were halted. Operations will shift to a distribution center in Pennsylvania, which…

News4’s Derrick Ward speaks with an employee of the Safeway distribution center, which will be closing this summer, leaving hundreds without a job.

The driver who killed a Smithsonian employee who was riding his bike to work in September will serve 18 months in prison.

The suspect in a hit-and-run accident that killed a popular Smithsonian employee was sentenced to 18 months in prison. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Some seniors in Northern Virginia have had issues finding a place where they can get the high-dose flu shot. Doctors say the vaccine is in short supply. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

For decades, a grocery store cashier in Northern Virginia was so popular that people stood in his line even if it was much longer than the others.

A man in Fairfax County has worked at Safeway grocery stores for more than half of a century. But now he’s entering retirement. News4’s Drew Wilder was at the South Lakes Safeway as family after family came through his aisle to say “thank you.”

A landmark law in Maryland makes it easier for women to access birth control.

A landmark law in Maryland makes it easier for women to access birth control. Doreen Gentzler reports.

A D.C. man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for killing and carjacking a Marine veteran at a Maryland gas station

The News4 Consumer team went to several grocery store chains last week in search of 12 popular items to compare prices. Susan Hogan reports.

Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan and producer Meredith Royster placed delivery orders with several grocery stores to compare their services.

Our consumer unit tried out several grocery stores’ curbside pickup service. Here is what they learned.