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DALLAS - 7-Eleven Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to increase educational opportunities for youth by establishing a new public charity the convenience-store giant calls "Education is Freedom."

LONDON - Tesco said today it will cut prices by 60 million pounds ($91.4 million) on 500 product lines in 660 UK stores beginning Monday July 1.

SAN FRANCISCO - Ralphs Grocery Company has announced the launch of a shopper rewards card program for customers at its Cala Foods and Bell Markets stores in the San Francisco Bay Area.

NEW YORK - A growing number of privacy advocates who feel that supermarkets' loyalty card programs invade their privacy and offer unfair promotions are showing their disdain by staging protests at stores, a recent article in BusinessWeek magazine reports.

LONDON - The UK's Safeway has cut the price of its petrol by as much as 20 pence a litre, spawning Wal-Mart-owned Asda to cut its prices, the BBC news reports.

LONDON - Retailers J Sainsbury, Barclaycard, Debenhams, and BP said Wednesday they are joining efforts to create the U.K.'s largest ever loyalty program, Dow Jones news reports.

WASHINGTON - The Conference Board today reported that its Consumer Confidence Index rose to 109.8 in May, up from a revised 108.5 in April, The Associated Press reports.

MINNEAPOLIS - Cub Foods on Monday said it has filed a lawsuit against Rainbow Foods, its parent company Fleming, and H.Brooks, a produce distributor, alleging that for more than a year, Rainbow has engaged in an ongoing scheme to steal Cub's Sunday newspaper advertisement prior to their publication.