Coinstar Asset Holdings, LLC

SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion today is unveiling the first of three stores to open in Spartanburg County, S.C. this year. The store is the prototype for Food Lion's future upstate South Carolina stores.

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Coinstar, Inc. yesterday formed an agreement with McDonald's Corp., to invest in Redbox Automated Retail, LLC., a renter of DVDs through self-service kiosks, with about 800 locations including McDonald's restaurants and major supermarkets.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Following a test that resulted in a reduction of stock-outs, improved store efficiency, and increased sales, Wal-Mart yesterday selected a supply chain management provider to help improve store efficiency through its Remix program.

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Front-of-store solution provider Coinstar, Inc. has added Borders Books & Music and Waldenbooks stores to its selection of gift cards in its Coin to Card program.

NEW YORK -- Retailers will have to make sure their cash acceptors are updated so that they can deal with the U.S. government's new, more secure design for the $10 note, which was revealed yesterday and will enter circulation in early 2006.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Gerlands here today added a new feature to its Coinstar kiosk that allows shoppers to purchase Amazon.com gift certificates using cash or coins.

Compassion has poured forth from many in the retailing community in the past week, demonstrating the industry's eagerness to do what it can to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Coinstar is thinking about ways to help retailers turn the front of the store from a no man's land into a gold mine.