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CARLISLE, Pa. -- Giant Food Stores, LLC, based here, will be opening a 91,000-square-foot prototype store with about 27,000 square feet of mezzanine space in a Camp Hill, Pa.-based property owned by Port Washington, N.Y.-based real estate investment trust Cedar Shopping Centers. The store will be the largest in the Giant/Martin's Food Markets chain.

NASHVILLE, Ga. -- The Delhaize Group has worked its synergies once again, as Tom Robinson, a veteran Food Lion exec, assumed full responsibility as v.p. and c.o.o. of the regional Harveys supermarket chain here on Friday. Robinson joined Harveys earlier this year and succeeds Benny Ensley, who has retired.

ZAANDAM, Netherlands -- Global retailer Ahold NV said yesterday it swung to a second-quarter net profit of 130 million euros (US$161.4 million), as the company continued to work on its Road to Recovery program in what it admitted is a competitive environment. Total net sales were 10.4 billion euros ($12.9 billion), a 0.9 percent decrease from the prior year.

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

SALISBURY, N.C. -- Responding to the success of the proprietary wines it introduced earlier this year, Food Lion said yesterday it has added Braidenwood Estates Merlot as the third varietal in the exclusive Braidenwood Estates line.

QUINCY, Mass. -- Stop & Shop, based here, and Chicago-based Internet grocer Peapod, said yesterday that they were introducing their joint online shopping and delivery service to western Connecticut and southeastern New York, with deliveries starting Aug 29.

SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion asked, and Bloom shoppers have answered: We want more fresh foods.

NASHVILLE, Ga. -- Memorial services were held this weekend for Joseph Hillman Harvey Jr., the man behind the Harveys supermarket chain, who died on Aug. 18 after a long battle with cancer. He was 76.