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  • COVER STORY: Know your enemy

    Some are painfully obvious, others will blindside you. But nontraditional competition means much more than Wal-Mart, and each grocer must decide which suspects most bear watching.
  • GROCERY: Refrigerated Dough: On a roll

    The refrigerated dough category looks to the smaller-household, health-and-wellness, and private label segments to reinvent itself.
  • L.A. City Council OKs Ordinance to Retain Grocery Jobs

    LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance this week that would make it more difficult for a company that acquires a supermarket to fire the old owner's workers for at least three months.
  • New York City Council Revises Health Care Security Act for Area Grocery Stores

    NEW YORK -- In its final session of 2005 this week, the New York City Council, among other business, amended a bill that requires grocers to provide employees with health care. The Health Care Security Act was originally passed in August of this year.
  • King Kullen Turns Restaurateur with Long Island Eatery

    BETHPAGE, N.Y -- King Kullen Grocery Co., Inc., based here, has spawned a foodservice arm, The Kullenary, a full-service café/deli offering breakfast, lunch, and dinner to eat in or take out.
  • Founder of SoBe to Help Manage Growth at Sparkling Juice Maker

    BOULDER, Colo. -- IZZE Beverage Company, a brand in the emerging sparkling juice category, tapped SoBe founder and former c.e.o. John Bello as a member of the company's board of directors. Bello is also a partner with Sherbrooke Capital, the venture capital group that led the $6.35 million equity-financing round for IZZE this past January.
  • Walgreens to Stay Open on Christmas

    DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Leading drugstore chain Walgreens here said yesterday its stores would be open Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to help last-minute holiday shoppers and anyone with health care product needs.
  • Spartan Stores to Purchase D&W Food Centers

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Let the 2006 mergers begin. Spartan Stores, Inc. here said it plans to acquire D&W Food Centers, Inc., also based here, in a deal that could add $200 million a year to Spartan's sales revenue.
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