COLUMBUS - Online holiday shopping activity grew in 2001, according to preliminary results from consulting and market research firm Retail Forward's most recent survey of Internet users.
LONDON - Record numbers of customers helped the UK's Asda, the supermarket group owned by Wal-Mart, report double digit like-for-like sales growth over Christmas, the Financial Times reports.
WASHINGTON - The government last week banned the import of the fruit Spanish clementines after larvae of the Mediterranean fruit fly were found in some of the fruit, Reuters reports.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Fearing a Medfly outbreak, agriculture officials in Florida ordered Friday that all Spanish Clementines be pulled from grocery stores across the state, The Associated Press reports.
LONDON - UK supermarket group J Sainsbury on Tuesday reported a small rise in underlying interim profits and said that sales in the first five weeks of the second half were encouraging, the Financial Times reported.
GOLDEN, Colo. - Known for its home-style meals, Boston Market Corporation is opening new stores for the first time since 1997 with a new store right outside of Boston, where the company started more than a decade ago.
