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Grocery Evolution
Widening competition for commodity grocery sales is changing grocery-anchored shopping centers.
Supermarket-anchored shopping centers haven't changed much since the invention of suburbia. Find a good location, sign a grocery anchor, get a construction loan and some inline local, regional and maybe national retailers, and you're in business.
Today, however, supermarkets are beginning to change, and supermarket-anchored shopping centers, of course, must follow along.
Why are grocers changing? Competition from all sides.
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Walmart to expand health coverage to domestic partners
New York -- Wal-Mart Stores will offer health insurance benefits to its U.S. workers' domestic partners, including those of the same sex, starting Jan. 1, 2014. Wal-Mart sent a postcard to its associates on Monday to tell them about the change. The chain also informed workers that it plans to begin offering vision care to its eligible employees and their dependents.