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  • Stew Leonard Jr. and Wife Publish New Water Safety Book

    NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard Jr., president and c.e.o. of Stew Leonard's, based here, and his wife, Karen, have produced their second children's book about water safety, "Swimming Lessons with Stewie the Duck," to be released May 1 by Kimberly Press. The Leonards have been devoted to the cause of water safety since the 1989 drowning death of their 21-month-old son, Stew Leonard III, while the family was vacationing in the Caribbean.
  • Supermarkets Nationwide Participating in Fair Trade Month

    OAKLAND, Calif. - TransFair USA, an independent, third-party certifier of Fair Trade products, Friday kicked off its first annual Fair Trade Month celebration, a month-long event that includes participation by hundreds of supermarkets.
  • FreshDirect Launches Consumer, B-to-B Marketing Push

    LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. - Online grocer FreshDirect is turning up the volume, launching a multi-pronged public relations campaign that will include consumer marketing and business-to-business communications. It has hired MWW Group, an East Rutherford, N.J.-based public relations agency to help create and run the campaign.
  • Customer Satisfaction Hits Nine-Year High; Publix Ranks No. 1 Among Supermarkets

    MILWAUKEE - Customer satisfaction among Americans hit a nine-year high in 2003, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index. The score for supermarkets was slightly down, with Publix coming again once again as the top-rated food retailer.
  • SimonDelivers.com Named Among Top 50 Web Sites

    GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - SimonDelivers.com, a Minnesota-based home-grocery delivery service, has been named to the "Best of the Web: The Top 50 Retailing Web Sites" poll by national trade publication Internet Retailer.
  • Amazon.com Planning Food Store Web Site

    SEATTLE - Internet retailer Amazon.com plans to launch an online food store as early as August, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
  • ACSI: Customer Satisfaction Down a Bit, But Consumer Spending Should Improve

    MILWAUKEE - Although customer satisfaction dropped slightly in the last quarter and has been flat in the past year, household spending should rebound somewhat, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a leading indicator of consumer spending.
  • Big Retailers Voluntarily Start to Charge Online Sales Taxes

    NEW YORK - Several major retailers have voluntarily expanded the number of states in which they collect sales tax from Web customers, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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