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GOLDEN, Colo. - Known for its home-style meals, Boston Market Corporation is opening new stores for the first time since 1997 with a new store right outside of Boston, where the company started more than a decade ago.

Catalina Marketing Corporation and Pathmark Stores Inc. have announced the launch of the ValuLink program to expand the benefits of Pathmark's Advantage Club Card.

In-store signage evolves in the supermarket industry.

Safeway and Albertson's on Tuesday offered their 28,000 unionized workers in Northern California a contract that includes a proposed wage increase the union has said for several months is unacceptable. The union said a strike is very probable as early as Oct. 8.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacksonville, Fla.-based Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WIN - news) willrollout a multi-million dollar ad campaign in 14 states to communicate a new ``Real Deal'' brand position.

Harris Teeter has transferred the support of its online shopping service to the MyWebGrocer Internet Shopping Solution and eCRM systems.

Eversave, an e-marketing infrastructure company best known for building proprietary email lists and powering geographically-targeted Internet promotions, on Thursday announced that is has been selected by Shaw's Supermarkets to manage the company's in-house email database and power geographically-targeted promotions on the Shaw's web site (www.shaws.com).

A monthly estimate of online spending by U.S.consumers suggests that Internet shoppers forkedout about the same amount in July - nearly $4billion - as they did during the same period a yearago.