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Tucked in among Home Depot, Starbucks and Target and ringed by acres of asphalt, the Gigante grocery store in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., about half an hour's drive east of Los Angeles, looks like any suburban supermarket. But step inside. Colorful pinatas hang from the ceiling. Bilingual signs promise shoppers el mejor precio. Produce gets lots of territory close by the entrance, where display islands overflow with crunchy jicamas, ripe papayas and dozens of varieties of chili peppers, from fiery serranos to sweet chipotles. The aroma of freshly made tortillas wafts from the bakery. Butchers serve up not only...
...this is no mere bodega. Grupo Gigante, Mexico's third largest supermarket chain, with 270 stores and $3 billion in annual sales, is staking its claim north of the border. It operates four stores in the L.A. area and will open four more this year. Gigante (pronounced hee-gan-tay) aims to become the most popular supermarket among California's 11 million Latinos, most of whom hail from Mexico and think of the stores as old friends. The chain's ultimate goal is even more audacious: "To be the leading supermarket in Latino areas across the United States," says Justo...
...Yale College Council has arranged to operate complimentary shuttles every 20 minutes to Shaw’s supermarket. Shaw’s has also agreed to set up two Yale Express lines and to accept rebate checks as payment for food. They will give change in cash...
...duplex and five in a Miami condo, it's the duplex. You can easily prove you used it as your main home for two (not necessarily consecutive) years of the five before you sold; just produce appropriate bills and receipts. (Year-round landscaping bills won't cut it, but supermarket receipts will...
...worse the economy, the better the business at Aldi. Last year it racked up €27 billion in sales. And discounters, including Aldi, Lidl and Plus, boosted their share of the German food market to almost 38%, from 33% in 2001, fueling a price war with more traditional supermarkets. You might think that officials would be happy that consumers are saving money in tough times. But the discounters' success is controversial in Germany: Renate Künast, the government Minister for Consumer Protection, last month vowed to "break their power." She was quickly chided by Chancellor Gerhard Schr...