THE WEEK IN STOCKS

Chart shows the six stocks with share prices of at least $1 that had the greatest percentage change in price last week, up or down.

North West Co.	+ 8.07%
United
Natural Foods	+ 3.51%
Whole Foods	+ 2.77%
Village	-6.26%
Wild Oats	-3.99%
A&P	-3.54%

most active

BY VOLUME

Wal-Mart
73,921,300

Target
53,861,380

Kroger
32,219,211

AS PERCENTAGE OF SHARES OUTSTANDING

Nash Finch
8.11%

BJ's Wholesale Club
7.88%

Wild Oats
7.13%

market summary

gainers	10
losers	15
unchanged	0

Market Quotes

RETAILERS
52-WEEK				Sales				Amt	Pct.
High	Low	Ex		(00's)	High	Low	Close	Change	Change
High	20.72	N	A&P	18960	35.89	34.13	34.10	-1.25	-3.54
13.86	8.21	N	Ahold (ADR)	70128	13.55	13.33	13.49	0.02	0.15
144.05	96.10	O	Arden Group	43	139.57	134.19	136.37	-2.32	-1.6
High	25.18	N	BJ's Wholesale Club	52092	39.15	37.45	37.77	-0.33	-0.87
High	46.00	O	Costco Cos.	183302	63.07	61.26	62.18	0.44	0.71
High	67.33	N	Delhaize (ADR)	1408	103.90	100.00	100.80	-0.82	-0.81
42.72	16.86	O	Ingles	2826	34.00	32.18	33.06	-0.93	-2.74
31.94	21.12	N	Kroger	322192	29.47	28.46	28.75	-0.28	-0.96
55.00	44.92	C	Loblaw Cos.	22228	52.22	51.28	51.72	-0.28	-0.54
41.78	29.25	C	Metro-Richelieu	6735	39.49	38.31	38.53	-0.77	-1.96
High	12.25	O	North West Co.	6631	20.99	19.15	20.76	1.55	8.07
High	7.60	O	Pathmark	10356	13.36	12.97	13.09	-0.11	-0.83
32.39	22.40	N	Ruddick	6864	32.06	31.14	31.86	0.44	1.40
38.31	25.35	N	Safeway	240077	37.14	34.56	35.11	0.30	0.86
High	26.14	N	Supervalu	104552	49.78	46.53	47.52	0.04	0.08
High	45.11	N	Target	538614	70.75	67.90	68.89	-1.15	-1.64
52.00	28.56	O	Village	210	48.47	45.21	45.66	-3.05	-6.26
52.15	43.23	N	Wal-Mart	739213	49.26	47.96	48.79	-0.04	-0.08
45.70	37.97	N	Weis Markets	2164	44.65	42.62	43.11	-1.11	-2.51
66.25	37.80	O	Whole Foods	191192	41.13	38.73	40.08	1.08	2.77
19.01	13.88	O	Wild Oats	21296	16.55	15.88	15.89	-0.66	-3.99
32.40	10.92	O	Winn-Dixie	15261	31.35	30.05	30.68	0.22	0.71

wholesalers
52-WEEK				Sales				Amt	Pct.
High	Low	Ex		(00's)	High	Low	Close	Change	Change
High	18.41	O	Nash Finch	10919	51.87	49.53	50.13	-0.29	-0.58
34.48	12.17	O	Spartan Stores	13927	34.28	32.73	34.05	0.83	2.50
38.40	26.10	O	United Natural Foods	22713	28.57	27.25	28.57	0.97	3.51

Exchange (EX) Symbols:

N — New York Stock Exchange

O — Over the Counter

A — American

C — Canadian

The SN Composite Index

The chart (left) shows the most recent eight weeks of movement of the SN Composite Index compared with the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The SN Index is a statistical indicator of the industry performance based on share price and number of shares outstanding of the listed stocks.

NDICES	Last Week	This Week	Pct.Change
Dow Jones	13861.73	14000.41	1.00
S&P 500	1547.70	1553.08	0.35
SN Composite	2122.10	2116.51	-0.26
Retailers	1922.21	1916.83	-0.28
Wholesalers	717.26	733.54	2.27