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  • No Rest for Bridget to open its first East Coast store

    Boston -- No Rest for Bridget, based in Irvine, Calif., will make its East Coast debut in mid-March, opening a 1,300-sq.-ft. location on Boston’s Newbury Street.

    The fast-fashion retailer specializes in affordable women’s clothing and accessories to 20- to 39-year-olds.

    The store’s build-out is being handled by A&O Danner Companies, Plymouth, Mass., which is working with D2 Construction of Costa Mesa, Calif.

     

  • Communicating Food Safety

    By Jeff Weidauer, [email protected]

  • Walgreens January same-store sales up 6.3%

    Deerfield, Ill. — Walgreens Tuesday morning reported January sales of $6.2 billion, an increase of 6.3% as compared to the same month in fiscal 2012.

    Prescriptions filled at comparable stores increased by 13.6% in January and increased 11.6% on a day-fall adjusted basis. This year's January had one additional Wednesday and Thursday and one fewer Sunday and Monday compared with January 2012, positively impacting prescriptions filled in comparable stores by 2 percentage points.

  • Duncan takes the reins at Supervalu

    Minneapolis -- Supervalu on Monday announced that Sam K. Duncan will become president and CEO, effective immediately. He succeeds Wayne Sales, who has served as the company’s president and CEO since July 2012.

  • Former eBay exec to oversee online at U.K. department store

    U.K. department store chain, John Lewis, has named Mak Lewis as online director, effective March 4. He will join the John Lewis management board (JLMB), reporting to managing director Andy Street.

    Lewis past roles include spending six years at eBay as U.K. managing director and European marketplaces director. He was most recently CEO of Collect+.

  • Duncan takes over as Supervalu chief

    MINNEAPOLIS — Supervalu has named Sam Duncan president and CEO.

  • Ingles Markets 1Q income up 9%

    Asheville, N.C. -- Ingles Markets Inc. said Monday that its fiscal first-quarter net income increased 9%. The supermarket chain earned $11.6 million for the quarter ended Dec. 29, up from $10.6 million a year ago.

    Revenue rose 2% to $932.8 million, from $918.2 million. Ingles Markets said that weekly customer visits increased 1.4% during the quarter, while the average amount that customers spent was nearly unchanged.

    Ingles Markets operates 203 supermarkets in six states in the southeastern U.S.

     

  • OfficeMax to open smaller format

    New York -- OfficeMax has become the latest retailer with a smaller-store, urban format either open or in the wings.
     
    The retailer will unveil its smaller concept sometime in 2013, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. The new format will range between 5,000 sq. ft. and 15,000 sq. ft., the report said.

     

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