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BOISE, Idaho - Albertson's Inc., saying its Acme food and drug stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland are seeing record market-share gains despite unprecedented competitive discount activity, today announced it will increase capital spending at Acme stores by 17% in 2002.

BOISE, Idaho - Albertson's Inc. today confirmed northern California is a strategic market for the company's future growth.

BOISE, Idaho - Albertson's Inc. today said that it will sell 80 of its Osco Drug stores in New England to privately held Maxi Drug Inc., which does business as Brooks Pharmacy, for $240 million, The Associated Press reports.

NEW YORK - A county commissioner in San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday criticized Albertson's Inc. for closing three of its San Antonio stores on the South Side of town, calling the decision a "planned attack" on the community.

Peapod, Stop & Shop work toward a profitable online shopping model in Norwalk, Conn.

In Store Media Systems Inc. announced on Monday that John Watkins, executive vice president of new business development for Acosta Sales and Marketing Inc., has been nominated by the ISMS Board of Directors to become a director.

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon have caused consumers in the Northeast to forego eating in restaurants and return to supermarkets, increasing sales of home meal replacement items and comfort foods.

Jewel-Osco, Midwest Division of Albertson's, Inc. (NYSE: ABS - news), is immediately launching a fundraising effort with the American Red Cross.