Weight Loss Firm Targets Potential Customers At Ground Zero: Grocery Stores
Lean for Life will be leasing space in Bay Area Safeways to offer clinicians and food coaches for shoppers to help them make smart decisions while shopping.
The Mercury News:
Safeway Teams Up With Weight Loss Clinic Inside 5 Bay Area Stores
Could a trip to the grocery store help you lose weight? A unique partnership between five Bay Area Safeway stores and a longtime Southern California medical weight loss firm is giving it a try. The Pleasanton-based supermarket chain is doing what some weight-challenged consumers might call the unthinkable: leasing space to Lean for Life by Lindora Clinic adjacent to in-store pharmacies at Safeways in San Jose, Menlo Park, Danville, Dublin and Livermore. (Seipel, 10/31)
In other news from across the state —
East Bay Times:
Hayward Man Who Blew Himself Up At Oakland Clinic Identified
A wheelchair-bound man who blew himself up with a pipe bomb two weeks ago at an East Oakland health clinic was identified by authorities Monday as Ralph Mark Harris, 60, of Hayward. The Alameda County Coroner’s Office said they had no occupation listed for Harris. The case is being investigated as a suicide but has not yet been officially classified, officials said. (Harris, 10/31)