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Creative retailer-supplier partnerships are boosting sales and encouraging customer loyalty.

With ever-increasing sales and scores of new product introductions, yogurt is the dairy case's shining star.

Now more than ever, opportunity knocks in the inner city for both independent and chain food retailers.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. today announced four new directors in its restructured marketing department: Joanne Gage, Larry Beck, Judy L. Holland, and John Opasinski.

HOUSTON - Albertson's is closing five stores in the Houston area and is expected to sell another five stores to Safeway in the final step of its exit from that market, the Houston Chronicle reports.

YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. - Wal-Mart plans to spend $40 million to build a more than 800,000-square-foot food-distribution center in Grandview, Wash., the Yakima Herald-Republic reports.

STOCKHOLM - Sweden's National Food Administration today reported scientists' findings that some carbohydrate-rich foods contain alarmingly high quantities of a substance believed to cause cancer, Reuters reports.

MEMPHIS - ACH Food Companies Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Unilever's Mazola branded cooking oil and corn products business in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico for $360 million