Attitudes: Retailers

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Two large Dutch pension funds, PGGM and ABP, have written to embattled supermarket retailer Royal Ahold NV protesting new c.e.o. Anders Moberg's remuneration package, according to a copy of a joint letter written by the two funds dated Tuesday.

CHICAGO -- Parents, not fast-food restaurants, are most responsible for the rise of obesity in American children, according to a new ACNielsen survey.

LONDON - Britain's Competition Commission said on Tuesday its report on who should be allowed to buy supermarket Safeway Plc would be delayed after one of the four parties made a last ditch attempt to stay in the race.

LONDON -- The chief executives of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Safeway, and Asda, as well as the British Retail Consortium director general, met Wednesday with Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett to discuss their reservations about consumer faith in the safety of GM food.

MONTVALE, N.J. -- Shares of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. here shot up more than 16 percent yesterday after Merrill Lynch raised its rating to "neutral" from "sell."

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Supermarkets and packaged food companies top the list of industries that get the best marks for serving their customers in the annual Harris Poll, which ranks 15 industries on how well they serve consumers. These two industries were not included in the listing in previous years.

CHICAGO - U.S. retail sales on the Internet are expected to climb by 26 percent to about $96 billion this year, according to a study released on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES -- A group of women claming they were taken to strip clubs on business trips, demeaned as "little Janie Qs" by senior managers, paid less than men for the same jobs, and denied promotions filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart in federal court in San Francisco yesterday.