Minn-based Supervalu is his 2012 short pick, which is also in the food retail business.
Calif-based Safeway is his 2013 short pick, which is also in the food retail business.
However, 60% of the jobs created since then are in lower income positions, mostly in retail and food services.
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Many of her friends from university are in a similar position, and are working in retail or fast food to pay off their student debts.
In their place we see a lot of poor-paying service jobs in retail and fast food.
Verdict Research, a retail consultancy, is forecasting a 4.2% decline in the value of retail spending, excluding food and internet sales, in 2009.
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The upgraded experience is just as beneficial for the airports, whose income is increasingly made up of cash pulled in from retail, food and any other source not directly related to flight.
Lately there's an emerging view in New Delhi that opening up retail trade could rein in mounting food price inflation.
Although Tesco already has a 27% share of the food retail market in the UK, it believes it could keep 75% of the Safeway portfolio and avoid any regulatory issues.
Ms. Dutra has led talent management engagements across the world in many industries: retail, food and beverage, technology, banking, and manufacturing.
Figures released by the British Retail Consortium earlier this week suggested that food and drink was the only category in which UK retail sales rose in August from the previous month.
Yet Wal-Mart accounts for almost 6% of retail and food sales in the U.S.--7.5% if you include car sales, according to the report.
China Resources Snow Breweries Limited is SABMiller's joint venture with China Resources Enterprise, a conglomerate with interests in retail, beer, and food and beverages in China.
These are not trivial amounts for workers in low-wage industries like food service, retail, and low-skilled labor.
On Wednesday, the British Retail Consortium said food prices in April were up 4.7% compared with a year ago, although falling prices of non-food items meant that shop prices overall were up by 1.2%.
Named after a cacao-rich region of central Venezuela, Chuao Chocolatier morphed from a single location retail outlet in 2002 into a specialty food up-and-comer in 2005, shipping 2, 000 bars per flavor every month.
Retail businesses in the consumer staples sector like food, beverages, clothing and electronics are likely to fall behind the broader market in the first half of 2012, according to Barclays.
Helping support stocks was a report from the Commerce Department that showed retail and food-service sales rose in April from the previous month, offsetting a big drop in sales at gas stations.
But the plunge of retail rents has brought fast-food joints in their place, and working-class shopping malls are booming.
They make up over half of the retail workforce, and in particular are the majority of food service and clothing store workers.
The finance minister said in his budget speech that the government would deliberate on allowing foreign investment in retail and that it may be a way to counter food inflation.
The latest scandal surrounding horsemeat in processed food could be "disastrous" for the meat processing industry, retail analysts are warning.
In 1989, the American division of McDonald's, the largest retail food-service company on the planet, struck a deal with one of America's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to solving the world's environmental problems.
The British Retail Consortium argues the government is tackling the problem of food waste in the wrong way.
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In difficult economic times marked by high unemployment and rising food and gas prices, the retail landscape is comparable to the gladiator days of the Roman Empire.
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He previously noted that the company supported federal legislation that in 2009 gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products, which includes various retail restrictions.
Food director of British Retail Consortium, Andrew Opie said that there is "a variation in price between those in the top quarter of dairy production and those who aren't and farmers who are lucky are those in supermarket supply chains".
Tesco is already the biggest retailer in the U.K.--with about 30% of the retail market--and one of the largest in the world, selling everything from canned food to clothes to electronics.
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said total sales grew by 2.1% in January, with food sales up by 5.2% on a year ago.
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