Retail

COLTON, Calif. - Jack H. Brown, chairman of the board, president and CEO of Stater Bros. Markets, announced today two promotions in senior management. Don Baker has been promoted to the position of executive vice president & chief operating officer, and George Frahm has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of administration.

LONDON - British supermarket group Safeway Plc is terminating its online order and collect shopping service, Reuters reported today.

TROY, Mich. - Kmart Corporation announced today that for the 13-week quarter ended October 31, 2001, net sales were $8.019 billion, a decrease of 2.2% from $8.199 billion for the 13-week period ended October 25, 2000.

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. - Symbol Technologies announced today that Giant Eagle has chosen the Spectrum24 High Rate wireless local area network for its in-store infrastructure.

ZAANDAM, The Netherlands - Ahold, the international food retail and food service company, today released third quarter 2001 net earnings of Euro 333.1 million, an increase of 28.3% from the third quarter in 2000. Sales rose 12.6% to Euro 15.5 billion, and operating earnings increased by 21.7% to Euro 667.2 million.

LONDON - Tesco, the UK's leading supermarket group, said total group sales rose 12.2% in the 14 weeks to November 17, the Financial Times reported today.

ZAANDAM, Netherlands - Ahold today announced new roles for two key executives in its U.S. retail management team. Jon Wilken, president & CEO of BI-LO, is appointedpresident, convenience stores, Ahold USA.

ATLANTA - Winn-Dixie may turn at least some of its 40 metro Atlanta locations into Save Rite warehouse stores as Cub Foods closes its Georgia stores, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently reported.