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...grocery chains are as clever as Whole Foods Markets at enticing shoppers to gorge on fancy fare. With $2.3 billion in revenue and a 20% profit surge last year, Whole Foods trounced its rivals in the conventional-supermarket business; most of them muddled through with 1% to 2% sales growth. Whole Foods, though, doesn't sell just groceries. It offers something more ethereal: a feeling of healthy chic that pervades its stores and products and rubs off on customers. Even if you're buying fat-marbled T-bones and Camembert cheese, you're surrounded by colorful fruits and vegetables...
...made a costly foray into Internet retailing. But those missteps have helped Whole Foods executives hone their strategy: to create a "supernatural" giant that can withstand the challenge from both conventional chains and the 500-pound gorilla called Wal-Mart, which is selling ever more low-priced organic fare...
...fusion food and a glass of fine Portuguese wine before retiring for the night. Reassuringly, the staff now carry corkscrews instead of M-16s. Rooms cost $50 a night, including breakfast?call (61418) 176 003 for reservations. Down the road at the Perola de Timor restaurant a more basic fare is on offer, but the bullet-riddled walls let you know that the good priest's money traveled only...
Three years ago, Joel “Joe” Espinoza wrote his final paper for a Harvard Extension School economic class about Mexican restaurants in New England, concluding that there is a potentially lucrative market for authentic fare in the region...
...British budget market already the best-developed in Europe, observers expect the next growth spurt to come from Germany, a nation of inveterate travelers and Internet users, making sales easier. Certainly, easyJet has staked its claim: it has secured an option to buy Deutsche BA - a struggling full-fare German subsidiary of British Airways - with the apparent intention of turning the 16-plane fleet into a budget operation...