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  TRADE & SALESFORCE

  Home Delivery/USA Of course it’s important to know your customer, but for Packard Bell, it became crucial to get to know its retail salespeople – and

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Detroit

  Motor City markets are big on coupons, but short on some of the services that are standard in other cities. Detroit is the No. 1 market for stores offering

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  Convenience is Work

  Aside from obvious issues of size and selection, what distinguishes the convenience store channel from its supermarket, mass merchandise, and drug store

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Phoenix

  Phoenix grocers are big on free samples, but light on frequent-shopper deals. Only 11 percent of stores here have frequent-shopper programs. Fully 94

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  Malling Betty

  General Mills begins construction this month Betty Crocker Kitchen, a retail bakery outlet in the Mall of America. The store will open in mid-October,

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  Chain Link

  Shopping Habits Do Prepared Home Meal purchasers leave the supermarket with a couple of carts crammed to the rims with goodies? Not so, says New York

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  Resetting the Shelf

  With Albertson’s and American Stores merged, can Kroger and Safeway be far behind? Apparently, they can be.Though rumors boomeranged about a merger between

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Atlanta

  There’s been a second march on Atlanta, and the victors this time are Publix and Wal-Mart. The two chains have captured a combined 25 share in the last

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  Chugging Along

  Jim Page doesn’t think much about the breakfast table these days. Page is the ringleader for Dean Food Co.’s $13 million rollout of Milk Chug, resealable

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Washington D.C.

  These are the salad days for our nation’s capitol. Washington has the highest percentage of supermarket salad bars in the country, nearly 60 percent.More