Tag: shelf-space
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Home for the Holidays? Hold the sugar, please
In the month of December, retail sales of sugar typically account for almost double most other months of the year. Stew Leonard, Jr., chief executive of the Stew Leonard's chain of four supermarkets in New York and Connecticut, has begun paring back shelf space devoted to sugar as he braces for another year-over-year decline in…
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Fire sweeps through Saudi hospital, at least 24 dead
The fire broke out at the general hospital in the southwestern port city of Jazan, the capital of the Jizan region, one of Saudi Arabia's poorest areas. The civil defense agency said 25 people died but a later statement by Health Minister Khalid al-Falih put the death toll at 24. Photographs published on Twitter by…