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• n  a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)

• As it must to all men, Death came last week to James Butler, 79, founder of the country's first chain-grocery system.
• Last week he admitted that as a grocer he is practically a bankrupt, has saved the situation only by writing his memoirs, with the tragicomic title From Archduke to Grocer.
• BRAND-NAME BATTLE Grocer's Profits v.

News & Articles

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• Sainsbury Maintains Growth Record as Grocer Outpaces Competitors
  J Sainsbury Plc, the U.K.’s third- largest supermarket chain, reported a 34th successive quarter of same-store sales growth as the grocer gained on competitors.
  June 12, 2013 - Bloomberg
• The Bronx's John V. Lindsay Wildcat Charter School and Philadelphia's Sustainability Workshop School Tie in ...
  Popular Online grocer FreshDirect's inaugural Green Angel Fund challenge between the Sustainability Workshop School in Philadelphia and the John V. Lindsay Wildcat Charter School in the Bronx came to an ...
  June 12, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Sobey's parent Empire Co to buy Safeway Canada for C$5.8 billion
  Empire Company Ltd , parent of Canada's No. 2 grocer Sobey's, said on Wednesday it is acquiring the Canadian arm of Safeway Inc. for C$5.8 billion in cash. Empire said the deal, one of the biggest in the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Albert Fert in International Herald Tribune
  These days when I go to my grocer and see him type on a computer, I say 'Wow! He's using something I put together in my mind,'Fert said.
• Roy Blunt in Forbes
  Mom and Pop grocer and gasoline station owners can't wonder what every court is going to decide,said Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the minority whip.
• Normie Kwong in Vancouver Sun
  They talk a lot about the American dream,Kwong told reporters at the time of his swearing-in ceremony. "Well, my story has to be the Canadian dream. My father was an immigrant grocer who couldn't even vote in Canada until his 40th year in...