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  • The Pantry Acquires 39 C-stores in Mississippi, Louisiana

    SANFORD, N.C. -- The Pantry, Inc., the top independently operated convenience store chain in the southeastern United States, said yesterday that it will acquire 39 Interstate Food Stop convenience stores in Mississippi and Louisiana from Waring Oil Co., LLC. The stores generated total revenue of about $100 million last year. Terms of the transaction were not revealed.

  • IDDBA Relocates Convention Venue from New Orleans to Orlando

    MADISON, Wis. -- The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) based here has relocated its annual seminar and expo, Dairy-Deli-Bake 2006, to the Orlando Convention Center, Orlando, Fla., June 11 to June 13.

  • Tesco-Meijer Deal Rumors Swirl

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--In a possible harbinger of what many observers expect to be a wave of M&A deals in the retail food sector in the coming year, reports circulated in the British and American business press yesterday that Tesco PLC, the U.K.'s largest grocer, is poised to take a 49 percent stake in Meijer Inc., based here.

  • Hannaford Bros. to Take Over Three Former Tops Supermarket

    SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- Hannaford Bros. Co., based here, said yesterday that it would assume the leases for two Tops Supermarkets in Utica and New Hartford, N.Y., and buy a Clinton, N.Y. shopping center in which a third Tops store currently operates.

  • Food Lion Donates Money for Playroom in New Children's Hospital

    SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion donated $250,000 to Johns Hopkins Children's Center last week to help the medical program build an inpatient playroom on the oncology unit of a new children's hospital, slated for groundbreaking in early 2006.

  • Wal-Mart Launches 'Express' Concept for Disaster Sites

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Continuing to seek the silver lining among the dark clouds of natural disasters this past season, Wal-Mart said yesterday it will open its first "Wal-Mart Express" store in Waveland, Miss. this weekend, to serve shoppers who live near the site of its damaged supercenter. Wal-Mart called the 57,000-square-foot concept a "prototype," implying that there are more to come.

  • New Redner's Warehouse Market Opens in Lehigh County

    READING, Pa. -- Redner's yesterday opened a 52,000-square-foot Warehouse Market at the Whitehall Square Shopping Center in Whitehall, Pa. The new site marks the Mid-Atlantic Grocer's fourth location in Lehigh County.

  • Town Temporarily Renames Road for Sprouts Opening

    FLOWER MOUND, Tex. -- Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Sprouts Farmers Market is receiving an unusual housewarming gift as it opens a store here today; The Flower Mound city council has agreed to temporarily name the busy thoroughfare near the store Sprouts FM 1171, per the retailer's request, according to local press reports.
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