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6 hrs ago | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Three Rivers Film Festival casts a wider net

Even if it's now theoretically possible to run into Russell Crowe or Anne Hathaway at Giant Eagle -- with all the recent Hollywood productions in town -- the real highlight of the cinematic year in Pittsburgh still is the annual Three Rivers Film Festival, now in its 28th year.

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Related Topix: Pittsburgh, PA, Retail, Oakland (Pittsburgh, PA), Downtown (Pittsburgh, PA), Hollywood, Drama Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Pittsburgh Metro, Movies, Entertainment

14 hrs ago | MELODIKA.net

Giant Eagle Honored With Green Grocer Award for Environmental Practices by Progressive Grocer Magazi

Supermarket retailer Giant Eagle, Inc. today celebrated the receipt of a Green Grocer award from the supermarket industry's Progressive Grocer magazine.

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Related Topix: Retail, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law, Energy

22 hrs ago | Motley Fool

Whole Foods Shocks No One

Are the upscale grocery chain's best days behind it? Fourth-quarter net income soared to $36.4 million, or $0.20 per share, from the year-ago $1.5 million, or $0.01 per share.

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Related Topix: Whole Foods Market, Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Safeway, Costco Wholesale

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Clarion-Ledger

Miss. man faces wire fraud charges

A man who tried to market a board game about government shortcomings after Hurricane Katrina has been charged with using dozens of money orders that were stolen in New Orleans the same year the storm hit the Gulf Coast.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Winn Dixie Stores, Retail

Easter Seals Autism

Safeway and Easter Seals working together

An article in Reuters last week touts Safeway Inc. for the generous grants it gives to Easter Seals to empower children and adults with autism and other disabilities.

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Related Topix: Safeway, Retail

Myrtle Beach Online

Dynegy posts 3Q loss on sale of plants

Power company Dynegy Inc. said Thursday that it posted a second straight big quarterly loss as it continues to write down the value of plants that it is selling as part of a deal to bolster finances.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Dynegy, Winn Dixie Stores, Retail

Medical News

General Nutrition Centers announces financial results for the third quarter of 2009

General Nutrition Centers, Inc. , a leading global specialty retailer of nutritional products, today reported its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009.

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Related Topix: Retail, 9, Health

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Whole Foods tumbles as guidance disappoints

Shares of Whole Foods Market Inc. tumbled Thursday after the upscale grocery chain offered a cautious outlook for its new fiscal year.

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Related Topix: Whole Foods Market, Retail

Daily Citizen

Dean & Deluca almond cookies recalled

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin alerts consumers to the recall of some cookies that contain a milk ingredient not listed on the packaging label.

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Related Topix: Retail, Charleston, SC, Charleston Metro

WICD

Midwestern retailer Meijer enters toy-pricing fray

The Midwestern chain of Meijer stores has entered a toy-pricing war with national retail giants Wal-Mart and Target, dropping prices 30 percent on more than 400 toys.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores

Sharon Herald

Diversions from November 5, 2009

Ticketmaster events are sold at Macy's and Giant Eagle, both Hermitage; ticketmaster.com; and at 330-747-1212. Art A* Capture the final days of the eye-opening "Digital to Daguerreotype - Photographs of People" at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

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Related Topix: Retail, Youngstown, OH, 9

Guardian Unlimited

M&S gives shelf space to other brands

Marks & Spencer has declared war on Waitrose, putting top brands on its shelves and cutting prices, in the battle to provide middle England consumers with their entire weekly shop as well as the luxuries and party foods it is famous for.

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Related Topix: Retail

Wed Nov 04, 2009

KJRH

QT proves itself recession proof

Nine companies on the Fortune Magazine's 100 best companies to work for list for 2009 are listed as the companies with the best job security.

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Related Topix: 9, Retail, Household Products

Chico Enterprise-Record

Whole Foods profit jumps in 4Q

Whole Foods Market Inc. said Wednesday that its business has officially turned the corner as sales and profit grew in the fourth quarter.

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Related Topix: Whole Foods Market, Retail

Tampa Bay Online

Publix posts higher profits

Publix Super Markets posted higher profits on lower revenue in its third quarter.

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Related Topix: Retail

Tue Nov 03, 2009

M2.com

www.PicksThatMove.com: "Picks that move" Alerts, November 03, 2009: NAL, WIN, DOW, PFE, SWI and HNT

Picksthatmove.com Alerts include NewAlliance Bancshares, Inc. ; Windstream Corporation ; The Dow Chemical Company ; Pfizer Inc ; SolarWinds and Health Net, Inc.

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Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, Winn Dixie Stores, Retail, Biotech, Pfizer, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Insurance, Health Net, New Haven, CT, New Haven Metro

Food Manufacturing

Retailers Drop Blueberry Grower Amid Child Labor Investigation

Wal-Mart and two other top retailers said Friday they are suspending business with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after investigators found children as young as 6 working in the grower's fields.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Michigan, Kroger, Law, Employment / Labor Law

ArkansasBusiness.com

Windstream to Buy NuVox of South Carolina in $643 Million Deal

Windstream Corp. of Little Rock said Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NuVox Inc., a privately held local exchange carrier based in Greenville, S.C., in a deal worth about $643 million.

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Related Topix: Winn Dixie Stores, Retail, Telecom, Greenville Metro, Greenville, SC

KTVN Reno

Renown Postpones Scheduled Flu Shot Clinics

Renown Regional Medical Center has postponed a series of seasonal flu shot clinics because of unpredictable delivery of the vaccine nationwide, according to a Renown spokeswoman.

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Related Topix: Reno, NV, Reno Metro, Retail

CSP

AMCON Distributing Expands Into N.W. Arkansas

OMAHA, Neb. -- AMCON Distributing Co., an Omaha, Neb.-based consumer products company, has announced that it will significantly increase its wholesale distribution presence in the Northwest Arkansas market with the acquisition of the convenience store distribution assets of Discount Distributors from its parent Harps Food Stores Inc., Springdale, ...

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Retail, Fayetteville Metro, Springdale, AR

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