Word: albertson
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...first game, he put together a stellar career at Bronxville, including a senior season in which he set school records with 44 regular-season and 15 postseason goals and led the Broncos to their first ever New York State championship. Rogers also excelled at a high level with the Albertson Soccer Club in Long Island, N.Y., one of the most elite club teams in the nation...
...He’s one of the few kids I’ve ever coached [who’s] just so relentless in the pursuit of being one of the top players in his position,” says Aidan Gaitan, who coached Rogers on Albertson. “He practices like he plays...He just always, always, always wants to do well. You don’t find kids like that nowadays...
...Spooked by the gravest economic crisis in decades, Americans are curtailing their spending. They're making fewer trips to supermarkets and migrating from grocers like Albertson's and Whole Foods to deep-discounters like Aldi and Save-a-Lot. And it's not just retirees like Chernova. These spartan bastions of private-label goods are looking a lot better to a broad range of shoppers. "Prior to the economic slowdown, we were prospering. But now we're seeing customers looking to save money, and our foot traffic has increased," says Jason Hart, president of Aldi US, based in Batavia...
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Since then, Albertson's and other big chains have publicly vowed to follow suit. Safeway, for instance, has gone dead net with a few vendors but admits that the evolution is slow because it takes so long to sift through years' worth of byzantine allowances in order to compute--and compare--dead net. "It's a little bit like translating some ancient scrolls that you might find in the Dead Sea that are in a language that you don't know," Burd told analysts. It's an honest--and stunning--admission that Safeway doesn't know what its true costs...