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  • BJ'S August Sales Surge 12 Percent
    NATICK, Mass. ¿ BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. yesterday said that its sales for August 2005 rose 12 percent to $598.0 million, from $534.1 million in the same period last year. On a comparable-club basis, sales grew 5.6 percent for the month, including a contribution from sales of gasoline of about 3.4 percent, and healthy comp increases of food.

  • COVER STORY: Being El Super
    From HEB to Publix and beyond, the grocers most committed to Hispanics are learning not to get lost in the translation.

  • Nieto to Lead Packaged Meats and Deli at ConAgra Foods
    OMAHA, Neb. -- Lou Nieto has joined ConAgra Foods as president, packaged meats, and deli. The 50-year-old Nieto, who will based in Naperville, Ill., is a veteran of the packaged foods industry.

  • INDEPENDENTS REPORT: Winds of change
    The Roundy's/Supervalu deal brings to light the challenges and anxieties of being a retail account in the middle.

  • KATRINA'S IMPACT--AN INDUSTRY UPDATE
    As the devastation grows in Hurricane Katrina's wake, grocers in the South and beyond do their best to cope, and to help. Here are some of the latest developments.

  • GROCERY: Nature trail
    With an emphasis on good nutrition, innovative products, and savvy merchandising, retailers and manufacturers of natural/organic branded and private label RTE cereals are proving that health sells.

  • NONFOODS: Destination: Nonfoods
    General merchandise and HBC have gone from grocery's stepchildren to leading players in Stop & Shop's prototype format.

  • Pathmark Opening Prototype in Philadelphia
    CARTERET, N.J. -- Just in time for the long Labor Day weekend, Pathmark will open a 55,500-square-foot prototype store in an ethnically diverse part of Philadelphia, featuring what the company says are many new merchandising concepts.
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