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AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods Market here said Friday it has revised the wording in its employee handbook to eliminate "any misunderstandings or offense" created by a rule that only English should be spoken by employees in its stores....More

BRUSSELS — Delhaize Group said Friday that Jean-Pierre Hansen will resign from its board of directors, effective June 30....More

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Lowes Food Stores has added solo sized boxes and organics only options to its Locally Grown Club weekly produce program....More

Data for North American food retailers tracked by SN, at the close June 13, 2013....More

MIAMI — Okey-Dokey Grocery, the Russian-backed retail venture that envisioned opening as many as 400 small discount grocery stores around Florida, has closed or will close all of its stores, local sources told SN....More

BOISE, Idaho — Albertsons here said Thursday it plans to merge its website with the website of the former Albertsons chain it purchased from Supervalu in March....More

CHICAGO — Expansion of The Fresh Market chain to California has been going smoothly, company executives said at an investor conference here Wednesday....More

PHILADELPHIA – The expansion of AmazonFresh into Los Angeles recalls an earlier period of home delivery experimentation during the dot-com era, but the financial model hasn’t become more favorable in the interim, according to an analyst panel here....More

CHANDLER, Ariz. — Bashas’ here has extended its popular milk loyalty program to eggs and frozen pizza....More

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz, D-Pa., introduced legislation today to support the two-year-old Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), a national, market-based approach to bring jobs and investment to underserved communities – known as food deserts -- where healthy food options are scarce or unaffordable....More

TOKYO — The Consumer Goods Forum on Wednesday said it has elected the chief executive officers of Ahold and Nestle as the new co-chairs of the group....More