Piggly Wiggly, LLC

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company here is expanding and renovating its supermarket at The Plaza at Shelter Cove shopping center in Hilton Head, a popular resort area in coastal South Carolina, to keep up with its customers' upscale tastes.

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- Buoyed by a 2.7 percent increase in same store sales for its corporate-owned and franchised Piggly Wiggly and Dick's banners, Fresh Brands Inc. here swung to a profit in the second quarter ending July 16.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Continuing its company-wide deployment of biometric technology, Piggly Wiggly's Greenwood, S.C. store went live on its own new payment system yesterday.

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- Fresh Brands, Inc.'s first quarter of fiscal 2005 showed net sales up to $198 million compared to $196 million.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Following a successful six-month pilot, Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. yesterday started to deploy biometric payment services to its 120 stores throughout South Carolina and Georgia.

SHEBOYGAN, Wis.-- Fresh Brands Inc. reported fourth-quarter net income of $500,000, or 10 cents per share, reversing a year-ago fourth-quarter loss of $4.7 million, or 96 cents per share.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in Ladson and Greenwood, S.C. have added fuel to their marketing programs by connecting the IBM controller and POS system inside the stores with the fuel pumps outside.