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Safeway 2Q profit rises, shares tumble on outlook (Seattle Times)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:15:21 GMT

Higher gas sales and a boost from its more upscale stores helped grocer Safeway Inc. post slightly higher second-quarter earnings Thursday, but a downbeat outlook because of consumers cutting back sent its shares tumbling more than 10 percent.

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Safeway profit rises 7%; forecast hits shares (Market Watch)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:37:00 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Safeway Inc., one of the largest U.S. grocery chains, said Thursday second-quarter net income rose 7% from a year ago. But its shares slid after the grocer cut its outlook for identical-store sales for the second time this year.

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Stock Market Alerts: Stocks to Watch this Thursday Morning: FRHV! July 17, 2008 (Market Wire - Investment Opinion)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:18:00 GMT

MIAMI, FL (MARKET WIRE) Stock Market Alerts' performance stock list includes: Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. (OTCBB: FRHV), Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB), Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFMI).

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Power of Little Things (Gay Patriot)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:12:50 GMT

Had trouble falling asleep last night and have been falling behind on other things. Not just that a number of little things have been going wrong in the past few hours. As I was hungry for lunch, I suddenly realized I hadn’t made it to Trader Joe’s yesterday as planned. And I [...]

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Zeer: Social Grocery Lists (Web Worker Daily)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Zeer is a social networking site built around a special focus: food. Their key asset appears to be a database of over 100,000 foot items, searchable by UPC code (it turned up about 80% of the random things I pulled off my pantry shelves), and carrying nutrition information as well as user-generated reviews and ratings. [...]

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BBQ Ribs from Trader Joe’s (Columbus Foodie)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:49:37 GMT

I’ve always been a big Trader Joe’s fan, as a matter of fact it’s my favorite grocery store in Columbus. There are always new things to try, awesome recipes using their ingredients, it’s just one of those places that just send my creativity vibe haywire from a culinary standpoint. If I have one complaint about [...]

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Co-op agrees £1.57bn Somerfield takeover (Financial Time)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:11:00 GMT

The merged group would be Britain's fifth-biggest supermarket chain by sales and account for some 8% of shoppers' spending, with more than 3,000 grocery stores and net sales of £8bn

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Woman dragged by car in purse-snatching (Arizona Republic)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:58:02 GMT

A 61-year-old woman was attacked outside an Ahwatukee Safeway store Friday morning when a younger woman snatched her purse then dragged her several feet as she drove away.

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Grocery prices vary for local staples (Toledo Free Press)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:54:45 GMT

On July 8, Toledo Free Press compared prices on eight products at six local grocery stores; Wal Mart...

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The Pantry Plan: Week One Shopping at the Farmer’s Market (The Sour Dough)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:01:40 GMT

After a holiday weekend where I did little cooking I came home yesterday afternoon with the first batch of allowable groceries under The Pantry Plan. My first stop was the Farmer’s Market, where because my garden isn’t quite ready to give up any other vegetables than the last of the lettuce and spinach, I had to [...]

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Jonah Hill Continues to Be Superbad (E! Online)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Think Spicy Black Bean chips and Two Buck Chuck wine are the only great finds at Trader Joe's grocery store? Perhaps not. Funnyguy Jonah Hill gets some McLovin in the parking lot at...

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Green @ Home: My Reusable Shopping Bag (Apartment Therapy - San Francisco)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:47:57 GMT

Name: Leslie Location: Menlo Park Yeah, I know, reusable shopping bags are old news these days. However, I really love my Reisenthel bag. One day I was at Trader Joe's and when I whipped my bag out

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Kroger reaches labor accord in Alabama, Tennessee (The Business First of Louisville)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:48:10 GMT

United Food & Commercial Workers Union members at Kroger stores in Alabama and Tennessee have signed a new labor agreement with the retail grocery chain. (KR)

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Kroger inks deals with Alabama, Tennessee unions (The Business Courier of Cincinnati)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:51:12 GMT

United Food & Commercial Workers Union members at Alabama and Tennessee Kroger stores have signed a new labor agreement with the retail grocery chain. (KR)

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Union members at 90 Kroger stores in Tenn. and Ala. approve new contract (The Nashville Business Journal)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:09:27 GMT

United Food & Commercial Workers Union members at Nashville, Knoxville and Huntsville, Ala. Kroger stores have signed a new labor agreement with the retail grocery chain.

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Kroger workers agree to contract (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:59:15 GMT

About 9,000 Kroger associates in stores in Greater Nashville and Huntsville, Ala., have approved a new contract with the Cincinnati-based retailer.

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Kroger says employees ratify agreement (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:26:15 GMT

Grocery-store chain The Kroger Co. on Monday said its employees who are members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 1995 in some cities ratified a new labor agreement with the company. Union members in Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn., and...

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Kroger says employees ratify agreement (The Washington Times)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:25:19 GMT

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Kroger says employees ratify agreement (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:25:00 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Grocery-store chain The Kroger Co. on Monday said its employees who are members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 1995 in some cities ratified a new labor agreement with the company.

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Land of the Free, Home of the Brave (The Big Trade-Off)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:12:00 GMT

When my family moved back to Smalltown in 1991 after being away for six years the population was around 25,000 people. It had grown a bit since we left but was still rather small and fairly rural. There was one high school, two grocery stores, and one McDonald's among the many locally owned restaurants and stores. The current population of Smalltown is around 70,000 people. Still...

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