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Whole Foods Market has changed the name of one of its blogs to The Whole Deal after Stop & Shop filed a lawsuit against the company for using the slogan The Real Deal. In the lawsuit, filed on behalf of both Stop & Shop and its sister chain, Giant...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco remanded a case filed by Bashas' employees back to a lower court last week and asked that the judge reconsider whether the claims should proceed as a class action. The suit, filed in 2003 by...
SALMONELLA IN IRRIGATION WATER WASHINGTON — U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials, working to determine the source of the salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 1,300 U.S. consumers this summer, last week said they had...
Declaring We fell in love with the company all over again, the family controlling The Fresh Market in Greensboro, N.C., has pulled the gourmet retailer off the sales block. The Fresh Market this spring had engaged Goldman Sachs to pursue new...
FOR 24 NORTH AMERICAN FOOD RETAILERS TRACKED BY SN, AT THE CLOSE THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2008 MARKET SUMMARY gainers 14 losers 10 unchanged 0 United Natural Foods +6.36% Spartan Stores +5.59% Supervalu +4.32% MOST ACTIVE BY VOLUME Wal-Mart 68,038,955...
Loblaw Cos. in Toronto said it has fallen behind on the five-year recovery plan it laid out in 2005, but it hopes to catch up within six to nine months. Citing the progress it's made in the last few months, Allan L. Leighton, president and deputy...
A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington last week found that a lower court erred in allowing Whole Foods to acquire Wild Oats last year, an unusual move that could force Whole Foods to sell some locations, legal...
Price investments and promotional activity helped Ahold post quarterly sales gains of 1.7% at Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover and 11.5% at Giant-Carlisle, the company said Friday.
Ingles Markets on Friday posted double-digit gains in sales for its third fiscal quarter, and earnings also increased when adjusted for one-time gains in the year-ago period.