While some independent corner shops may close in areas near the supermarket-owned stores, Mr Gotham said shoppers should benefit from cheaper prices and better quality goods.

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Kevin Bennett, 53, was attacked near the Iceland supermarket in Walton Road, Walton, around 05:30 BST on 17 August.

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The 22-year-old suspect was arrested near the Morrisons supermarket at Five Ways at about 12:30 GMT, following a city-wide manhunt.

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Spend more time on the ends of the supermarket near the fresh vegetable and fresh fruit aisle, and look for things that are affordable.

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It wasn't near a supermarket or in the "path of running errands, " as he put it.

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In a TV interview I saw not long ago, Cheech Marin spoke about how he lived near Jonathan Winters and would always see him in the supermarket.

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Though grocery stores have long put impulse items near the register, Old Navy wanted to avoid a supermarket-like ambience so selected specialty sodas, superhero lunch boxes, glitter-covered piggy banks and other items it thought looked "nostalgic and convenient, " a spokeswoman says.

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Another new employee, Maria Saoulidou, had worked in a supermarket near her home in northern Greece until the owners stopped paying her.

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The supermarket is closing its site at Fenny Lock, near Milton Keynes, and transferring the work to a new centre in Daventry, Northamptonshire.

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