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PLEASANTON, Calif. - Safeway Inc.'s online grocery shopping provider GroceryWorks has named a new president as its former leader, Gary Rocheleau, has rejoined Safeway.

Online operations of big grocery chains maneuvered through the dot-com devastation and are now showing positive signs of life. They're finding that the payoffs from Internet retailing reach beyond incremental sales.

NEW YORK -- Walgreen Co.'s shares fell sharply on Monday as investors worried that slowing sales growth and fierce competition could lead the No. 1 U.S. drugstore chain to miss earnings targets for the current fiscal quarter.

November 20, 2002 -- SAN DIEGO, CA -- ICON Group International Ltd. today released two comprehensive studies on labor productivity and vertical gap analysis benchmarks for The Kroger Co.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it would not challenge Kroger Co.'s acquisition of 18 Raley's Corp. supermarkets in Las Vegas.

PHILADELPHIA, -- Acme Markets, Inc., a unit of Albertsons, has purchased a prominent portion of the former Defense Supply Center Philadelphia and plans to erect a 50,000 sq. ft. combo store on the South Philly site. Food-drug combo stores, such as its Albertsons Sav-On and Jewel-Osco formats, form the Boise, Idaho-based chain's key strategy for growth.

NEW YORK - No. 1 drug chain Walgreen Co. on Thursday became the latest retailer to say it may have to pull out of a state Medicaid program because of cutbacks in reimbursements, Reuters reports.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Catalina Marketing Corporation announced a pilot agreement with Maruetsu, Japan's top supermarket chain, to install its electronic couponing network in six of its stores in the Tokyo market.