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Food Comps Outpace GM for Nov. Sales at BJ's
NATICK, Mass. -- Thanks in no small part to an improved food offering, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. yesterday reported that November 2007 sales rose 11.7 percent to $746.3 million, from $668.2 million in the year-ago period. For the 43-week period ended Dec. 1, 2007, total sales grew -
Consumers Trust Grocers, Activists for Food Information
WAUKESHA, Wis.-- U.S. consumers have greater faith in consumer advocatesand grocers than in the government or food companies when it comes toproviding useful information about food choices, according to a newnational survey by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media commissioned byMorgan&Myers, a communications firm specializing in food and agriculturebased here.