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AMSTERDAM -- Royal Ahold here has implemented arcplan Enterprise, the flagship business intelligence (BI) solution from arcplan, a Langenfeld, Germany-based vendor of process-centric BI software, to gather financial reporting information from Ahold's operating units and create consolidated reports for the retail conglomerate's executive board.

SEATTLE -- Following a beta testing period that began late May, online retailer Amazon.com yesterday launched its grocery store formally with a letter from founder and c.e.o. Jeff Bezos posted front and center on the mega e-retailer's home page.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Global food retailer Delhaize Group has signed on with Norwalk, Conn.-based Cartesis to implement Cartesis 10, an integrated platform for financial planning, consolidation, and analytics.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Global food retailer Delhaize Group has signed on with Norwalk, Conn.-based Cartesis to implement Cartesis 10, an integrated platform for financial planning, consolidation, and analytics.

AMSTERDAM -- Unionized logistics workers at the distribution and supply centers for Royal Ahold NV's Albert Heijn supermarkets in the Netherlands say they will go on strike if their demands, which include a 2 percent pay raise, aren't met, according to published reports.

AMSTERDAM -- The 46 northeast Ohio Stores that Ahold is divesting might end up in the hands of multiple buyers, a Giant-Carlisle/Tops arena spokesman told Progressive Grocer.

QUINCY, Mass. -- In the second such incident to occur this month involving one of Ahold USA's external service providers, a laptop computer containing the personal information of current and former company employees was stolen during a domestic commercial airline flight.

SALISBURY, N.C. - Bloom, Food Lion's "different kind of grocery store," premiered in three upstate South Carolina locations over the weekend.