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Haggen finds another buyer for its stores
Gelson's Markets is joining Smart & Final on the acquisition of some Haggen properties in Southern California.
Gelson's, a regional supermarket chain operating in Southern California, announced it is bidding on eight Haggen locations across five counties: Los Angeles County (Santa Monica), Orange County (Laguna Beach, Ladera Ranch), Riverside County (Rancho Mirage), San Diego County (Carlsbad, Del Mar, Pacific Beach) and Ventura County (Thousand Oaks).
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Amazon commands nearly half of consumers' first product searches
Amazon’s dominance in the $300 billion American e-commerce market is stronger than ever, according to a new survey.
A Survata study commissioned by BloomReach reports that in a survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers, 44% bypass the entire Web and go directly to Amazon first to search for products, compared to 34% who use top search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo!.
As recently as 2012, Forrester found that only 30% of consumers research products on Amazon first.

