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  • Whole Foods Market Opens Third Unit in Manhattan
    NEW YORK -- Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market opened its doors across from Manhattan's Union Square Park here yesterday, with a uniquely-designed three-story unit at the location of a former Bradlee's discount department store.

  • Josefowicz To Vacate Spartan Board in August
    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- Gregory Josefowicz, president and c.e.o. of Borders Group, will leave his board position at Spartan Stores, Inc. later this year during the distributor's annual shareholder meeting Aug. 10.

  • Whole Foods Market Opens Third Unit in Manhattan
    NEW YORK -- Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market opened its doors across from Manhattan's Union Square Park here yesterday, with a uniquely-designed three-story unit at the location of a former Bradlee's discount department store.

  • Logistics Moving Fast on Conveyor Belt of Change: FMI
    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- New technologies, elevated food safety concerns and the growth of mass merchandisers are all factoring into a rapidly changing logistics environment for food distributors and retailers, said FMI in a study released yesterday, the 2004 Food Industry Distribution Center Benchmarking Report.

  • Safeway to Grow Comps by 'Reinventing the Enterprise'
    NEW YORK -- "Branding the shopping experience" is Safeway's scheme for regaining ground lost to the impact of the infamous California strike, said an enthusiastic Steve Burd, chairman and c.e.o. of the chain, at the Banc of America Securities Consumer Conference 2005 yesterday.

  • Albertsons Misses Q4 Targets; To Focus on Differentiation in Future
    BOISE, Idaho -- Shares of Albertson's, Inc. tumbled yesterday to 15-month lows after the retailer reported fourth quarter earnings that fell below expectations. Shares on the New York Stock Exchange dropped 4.31 percent, closing at $19.97.

  • Private Label, Healthy Mainstream Products, Efficiencies to Drive Wild Oats Growth
    NEW YORK -- "No one would argue that V-8 juice isn't healthy." So said Wild Oats Markets' c.f.o. and s.v.p of operations, Ed Dunlap, during a presentation yesterday at the Banc of America Securities 2005 Consumer Conference here at the New York Palace hotel.

  • Private Label, Healthy Mainstream Products, Efficiencies to Drive Wild Oats Growth
    NEW YORK -- "No one would argue that V-8 juice isn't healthy." So said Wild Oats Markets' c.f.o. and s.v.p of operations, Ed Dunlap, during a presentation yesterday at the Banc of America Securities 2005 Consumer Conference here at the New York Palace hotel.
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