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...attorney's office in Manhattan started official investigations, and shareholder class-action suits have already been filed in the U.S. How could this happen to the worldwide giant that, after all, owns Giant and Stop & Shop in the U.S. and 7,000 stores in Europe, including Supersol and Hipersol in Spain and ICA throughout Scandinavia? In some respects, the company is a victim of its own reach. Van der Hoeven, 55, is a tall, heavy-smoking former Shell executive with a commanding manner. When he took over as CEO in 1993, he promptly launched an international acquisition binge that turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Ahold of the Problem | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

Take Ahmed. Ahmed was THE fishman at Supersol, the largest grocery store in West Jerusalem, where I did my shopping almost daily this summer. Despite the fact that Ahmed, an Arab-Israeli resident of the Old City of Jerusalem has never seen the ocean, he loves fish. Every day after we said our hellos, regardless of whether I was even purchasing dairy products, Ahmed insisted on describing the catch of the day, in detail, and the exact way to cook salmon or tuna to perfection...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Remembering the Real World | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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