Safeway Sets Outlook Below Estimates
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Grocery chain operator Safeway Inc.  on Wednesday set a 2005 earnings per share goal that was below analysts' expectations, with added marketing expenses and lingering impact from a strike at its Vons stores weighing on profits.
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Restaurant operator Bob Evans Farms  Inc. BOBE.O on Monday reported a drop in quarterly earnings  and warned that full-year results would fall short of Wall  Street estimates.
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Warnings of a poor Christmas for High Street retailers in the UK are unduly pessimistic, according to accountants Deloitte &Touche.
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Safeway's taking its organics line further.
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Retailers are still mulling the results from the first weekend of the holiday shopping season. But the outlook is still murky
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Performance Food Group Co. said Monday that earnings for the third and fourth quarters will fall below its previous estimates, in part due to the effects of the hurricanes that hit the Southeast.
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CAMP HILL, Pa. -- Rite Aid Corp. is warning that its earnings and revenues for the year will fall below the low end of the company&#39;s projected ranges if lagging sales trends continue.
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Sales gains in the past week at Wal-Mart Stores fell well short of a year-ago, the company said Saturday. For the month, sales were at the bottom of the chain&#39;s forecast range.
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The specialty retailer's uncertainty about the fourth quarter is unsettling.
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Business & money: Chief executive warns of tougher times until 2009 as retailer reveals first drop in two and a half years
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Rite Aid Corp. , the third-largest U.S. drugstore chain, on Tuesday warned that if current sales trends continue its fiscal 2005 results would fall below expectations it gave in September.
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The women's fashion retailer warns of lower earnings and sales.
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A leading retail trade group predicted yesterday that holiday sales growth will lag behind last year's in an early forecast that set a tepid tone for the most important shopping season of the year.
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The nation's retailers slashed prices further Wednesday in hopes that a post-Christmas shopping rush will salvage holiday sales that, so far, have fallen below even modest expectations
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Albertsons Inc. ABS.N, the No. 2  U.S. grocer, on Thursday posted higher quarterly profit, but  warned that full-year earnings could hit the low end of its  estimates due to competition and skittish consumers, sending  shares down 6 percent.
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The grocery chain is struggling to turn itself around. Will investors keep the faith?
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Holiday sales are expected to rise,   though at a slower rate than last year as consumers fret about   the declining housing market, according to a National Retail   Federation economic forecast on Tuesday.