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QUINCY, Mass. - Twenty years after opening its first Super Stop & Shop, the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, a division of Ahold, has announced the opening of its first new prototype supermarkets in Walpole, Mass., and Rhinebeck, N.Y.

LANDOVER, Md. - Giant Food, headquartered in Landover, Md., has become the first major food retailer in the Baltimore-Washington area to offer case-ready irradiated ground beef processed with SureBeam Corporation's electron beam technology.

AMSTERDAM - Dutch retailer Royal Ahold NV said on Friday it plans to integrate its operations in Central Europe to create a new organization, Ahold Central Europe, Reuters reports.

AMSTERDAM -- Shares in the world's third biggest food retailer Royal Ahold NV fell sharply on Friday as disappointing U.S. sales figures and disclosure concerns combined to rattle already anxious investors.

BRUSSELS - Belgian supermarket giant Delhaize Group on Thursday issued a warning about its U.S. grocery store sales for the second time in two months, taking its shares down by 14 percent.

ZAANDAM, The Netherlands - Supermarket chain Albert Heijn, the largest in the Netherlands and part of the Ahold group, has removed a number of Unilever products from its shelves following a disagreement over the price the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate is demanding, according to published reports.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Workscape Inc. was recently selected by Ahold USA as a cornerstone of the Ahold Manager and Associate Self-Service initiative.

AMSTERDAM - Royal Ahold NV said on Thursday its U.S. Foodservice subsidiary would acquire certain assets of U.S. distributor Lady Baltimore Foods, Inc. for an undisclosed amount.