Food fight! Grocers battle for lower prices

 
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)  Think the price of food is too high? A pair of supermarket CEOs feel the same way.  Leaders at both Supervalu and Safeway, companies that operate thousands of grocery stores in competition with each other and, increasingly, in competition with Wal-Mart, have seen the falling price of commodities as a call to prod [...]

Alabama pharmacist launches homegrown stimulus

(The News Herald) A small-town pharmacist intrigued by the government’s economic stimulus plan decided to launch his own version with $16,000 in $2 bills, and area stores have already felt the impact.
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