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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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, ...