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PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Following a successful pilot, Safeway, Inc. is deploying new color coupon printers at the check stands of its stores across the chain, using Catalina Connections printers, from St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Catalina Marketing Corp.

DAYVILLE, Conn. -- Sharing a fate similar to one of its biggest customers, Whole Foods, United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) here yesterday took lumps from Wall Street even though it reported net income of $12.7 million for the fourth quarter ended July 29, a 7.6 percent increase over the previous year, and net sales of $619.8 million, up $76.8 million, or 14.1 percent, from last year. The problem: the natural foods wholesaler still fell short of analysts' high expectations, which on average predicted sales of $630.5 million.UNFI attributed the gap between results and expectations t

DAYVILLE, Conn. -- Sharing a fate similar to one of its biggest customers, Whole Foods, United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) here yesterday took lumps from Wall Street even though it reported net income of $12.7 million for the fourth quarter ended July 29, a 7.6 percent increase over the previous year, and net sales of $619.8 million, up $76.8 million, or 14.1 percent, from last year. The problem: the natural foods wholesaler still fell short of analysts' high expectations, which on average predicted sales of $630.5 million.UNFI attributed the gap between results and expectations t

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Following a successful pilot, Safeway, Inc. is deploying new color coupon printers at the check stands of its stores across the chain, using Catalina Connections printers, from St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Catalina Marketing Corp.

DAYVILLE, Conn. -- Sharing a fate similar to one of its biggest customers, Whole Foods, United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) here yesterday took lumps from Wall Street even though it reported net income of $12.7 million for the fourth quarter ended July 29, a 7.6 percent increase over the previous year, and net sales of $619.8 million, up $76.8 million, or 14.1 percent, from last year. The problem: the natural foods wholesaler still fell short of analysts' high expectations, which on average predicted sales of $630.5 million.UNFI attributed the gap between results and expectations t

QUINCY, MASS. -- The third annual Stop & Shop Family Foundation Golf Classic reached the $1 million mark in a single day of raising funds for children's educational and athletic programs.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Tom Jackson, president and c.e.o. of the Ohio Grocers Association here, was recently honored with the Publisher's Award for Lifetime Achievement by Tri-State Food News, a regional trade newspaper covering Western Pa., West Virginia and Ohio.

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - International marketing services company SPAR Group, Inc. here has tapped C. Manly Molpus, outgoing president, c.e.o., and a director of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), to join its board of directors. Molpus 16-year veteran of GMA, has said he will retire from the Washington, D.C.-based association at the end of this year.