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...Turkish online grocery group Getir closed the $1.2bn acquisition of its rapid-delivery German rival Gorillas, valuing the combined group at $10bn....
...Leaders reflect on their first jobs: Six women who are leaders in their field share how their early work experiences — from grocery stores to the Peace Corps — shaped their careers and impressed the importance...
...2nd Avenue Deli, New York Abe Lebewohl founded the 2nd Avenue Deli in 1954 on a corner of the East Village....
...Net sales in grocery products were flat, despite increased advertising....
...andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill...
...In 2008, after various stints at Orrery, J Sheekey and the Oxo Tower, Srulovich heard that an Israeli chef was looking for someone to run a deli in Notting Hill....
...Grocery products, Hormel’s second-biggest unit generating a fifth of group sales, remains the sole bright spot....
...In 2016 it added an antitrust lawyer, Seth Bloom, with experience on Capitol Hill and in the justice department....
...The biggest lines tend to be at the two Bi-Rite groceries that neighbour Dolores Park and Alamo Square....
...“While we expect Ocado to remain a key player in the development of the UK grocery landscape, we find it difficult to justify a premium valuation to Amazon,” point out analysts at Deutsche....
...Nonetheless, George Scott, a food and grocery retail analyst at Conlumino who also owns a café, believes getting staff passionate about the product is essential....
...Cascade is a B Corp, as Michigan has yet to adopt benefit corporation laws....
...You don’t see big billboards in Beverly Hills. They market to people who don’t have money.” I ask him why he thinks companies do that. “Aspiration....
...Meanwhile, activist investor Jana Partners this week joined forces with a Canadian pension plan to press for a break-up at McGraw-Hill, whose businesses span text books to credit ratings....
...Duane Reade is owned by affiliates of Oak Hill Partners, the private equity group. It is named after the streets in lower Manhattan where it established its first location in 1960....
...The Grade who appears at Harry Morgan’s, a New York-style Jewish deli restaurant in north-west London, cuts a very different figure to the pugnacious one who publicly fought ITV’s corner....
...The cards offer 10 per cent discount for groceries and 3 per cent for fuel....
...The press corps, from broadcast to print, look bewildered....
...His first restaurant, Chadwick in Beverly Hills, was packed with celebrity guests....
...Richard Galanti, Costco’s CFO, told investors that the retailer was seeing high double digit sales of food and grocery items, while sales of bigger ticket items such as televisions, jewellery and furniture...
...For retailers, that has meant higher sales as more families do their shopping in supermarkets – and spend more on groceries than before....
...Dubbed “Little Odessa” by its 350,000 residents, most of them from Russia and Ukraine, the neighbourhood teems with Soviet-style restaurants, delis and food stores....
...the UK supermarket group, is eyeing a first direct response from a US competitor to the arrival in the US of its Fresh & Easy markets, with the opening this week by Safeway of a new similarly-sized small grocery...
...As I tried to stuff assorted groceries into a handbag, while simultaneously punching in a debit card code, my mobile rang....
...And if we can get a babysitter organized we might finish the night in one of our two favourite pubs, the Alma and the East Hill....
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