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...clock is ticking, and it may tick a little faster now," says Pat Steele, executive vice president in charge of Albertson's high-tech experiment in Seattle. His online sales have jumped 300% in the week since Webvan's demise. "The next three to six months will be the telling time...
...Star Markets, a billion-dollar conventional chain, has recently opened four natural and organic Wild Harvest supermarkets. Meanwhile, Wild Oats, while not as large, grew 75% last year and looks to become a formidable rival. In spite of that, Mackey still sees supermarkets as his main competition: chains like Albertson's and Safeway have vastly increased their natural-foods offerings. Such chains, however, may actually help organic stores, says Barbara Miller, who follows the food industry as an analyst for BT Alex Brown. The supers "have only so much aisle space. They end up introducing people to lots...
Topping the list this past quarter was Kathryn Albertson, the widow of a super-market-chain founder, who gave $660 million in stock to-unusually-primary and secondary schools in Idaho. Yet many of the weightier donations, including 19 of the top 29, went to universities to endow new chairs, pay for new student centers and fund additions to football stadiums...
...than the Nederlander in New York. But it works. The truth is that people come to see what's on the stage. I mean, at some point you make yourself nuts with trying to recreate the world outside inside everything else. We're playing in Los Angeles at the Albertson Theater, which is the finest theater in Los Angeles. And I have no regrets; I mean, it's the best theater, you have parking, you have creature comforts, and no matter how much you talk about Fourth Street, people want to be able to park...
...first big Republican debate, where an informal vote yielded a landslide: for Undecided. Everywhere they go, Dole's minions hear a refrain that has little to do with the spectral presence of Colin Powell. "I can get Bob Dole to call you personally," an eager Dole staffer told Richard Albertson, an undecided delegate to next week's perversely important straw poll in Florida, which Dole himself has called "the big political event of the year for us." Albertson retorted, "I don't need to talk to him personally. I don't need to have my ego stroked. I just want...