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Wal-Mart supercenters top grocery list
The Wall Street JournalWhen two Wal-Mart Supercenters and a rival regional grocery opened near a Kroger Co. supermarket in Houston last year, the Kroger's sales dropped 10 percent. Store manager Ben Bustos moved quickly to slash some prices and cut labor costs, for example, by...Tags: Inventories, Employees, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Groceries, Companies and Corporations
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Top Maryland employers
SunSpot StaffFrom agriculture and manufacturing to military contracting and natural gas production, Maryland's economy is diverse. And it is this broad spectrum of enterprising activity -- which also encompasses the offices of 21 federal government agencies in...Tags: IBM, Employees, Agricultural Research and Technology, Charlotte, UPS Inc.
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A dairy-aisle secret: Milk is a cash cow
The Wall Street JournalAre consumers getting gouged in the dairy aisle? America's farmers are swimming in such a glut of milk that they are getting their lowest prices for the stuff in 25 years. Processors of ice cream, butter and bottled milk have seen the price of their...Tags: Lawyers, Eliot Spitzer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Dean Foods Company, Colleges and Universities
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High stakes for supermarkets, unions
Special to SunSpotAs the supermarket showdown in California wears on, labor unions across the country are at a crossroads. Negotiations to end a months-old strike against two grocery store chains owned by Safeway Inc., Vons and Pavilion are at an impasse. Meanwhile,...Tags: Employees, Chestertown, Demonstration, Prince George's County, Labor Legislation
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Supermarkets in transition
Special to Baltimoresun.comWhile a strike was averted at more than 300 Giant and Safeway stores in the Baltimore-Washington region, the issues that factored into labor negotiations remain and must be addressed by both company managers and union leaders if the companies are to...Tags: New Products, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), Employees, Business Enterprises, Marketing
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Strike could be looming at Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons supermarkets
Money & CompanyHolding signs that said, "L.A. isn't Wisconsin," representatives of 62,000 unionized grocery store workers said Wednesday that they were very close to going out on strike against Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons supermarkets. At a news conference at the Los... -
Proposed Brawley lithium carbonate facility review lengthy
Staff WriterBRAWLEY -- The proposed construction of a production facility that could emit hazardous air emissions must first get certification from an environmental review process before receiving a permit from the Air Pollution Control District, an official said...Tags: Air Pollution, Imperial County (California), Environmental Pollution
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1970 Dodge relocates with moving family to many states
From the first time in early 1970 when William Ouellette saw the Dodge Challenger T/A in the North Star Dodge dealership in Brooklyn Park, Minn., he knew that was the car for him. Back in 1970, Ouellette was driving a well-worn 1965 Dodge Coronet 500...Tags: Ford, Brooklyn Park, Passenger Cars, Dodge, Firearms
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Taking a chance on the rest of your life
There is not much time left.
You may be 50, or 64 or 32 when it hits you in the gut that life is finite and if you're going to make a contribution to this world, you'd better start making it.
In midlife, we reassess. We ask ourselves how we want to...Tags: Washington, DC, Road Transportation, Transportation, Colleges and Universities, BP Plc
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San Franciscans all wound up for Giants' victory parade
L.A. NOWIn the early morning hours, San Francisco City Hall and Coit Tower glowed with orange lights. Black and orange balloons hung from lamp posts along Montgomery Street in the Financial District. And cable cars on California Street had celebratory signs...... -
Jon Fitch has new attitude about UFC title shot
The Fabulous ForumAccording to Jon Fitch, he has no one to blame but himself for his current exclusion from the UFC’s welterweight title picture, and he wants to do something about it. The former Purdue wrestler, who is ranked No. 2 behind......
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