Food and Beverage Retailers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Giant Eagle Inc is recalling Valu Time canned pumpkin bought on or after August 30 as well as Food Club canned pumpkin bought on or after October 28, the Pittsburgh-based supermarket chain said.

Hundreds of Chinese shopkeepers demonstrated in Madrid pm Monday to demand the right to sell beer and wine, in what Spanish media said was the first public protest by the community.

Protests by Indian lawmakers forced parliament to abandon business on Monday as the government faced growing opposition to its decision to open the retail market to global competition.

Global supermarket chains have been salivating at the prospect of setting up in India, but local shopping habits could make it a tricky business to crack even after major retail reforms announced last week.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India threw open its $450 billion retail market to global supermarket giants on Thursday, approving its biggest reform in years that may boost sorely needed investment in Asia's third-largest economy.

India's government announced on Thursday it was throwing open the nation's huge retail sector to global supermarket chains in a reform that could herald a consumer revolution.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India threw open its $450 billion retail market to global supermarket giants on Thursday, approving its biggest reform in years that may boost sorely needed investment in Asia's third-largest economy.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India threw open its $450 billion retail market to global supermarket giants on Thursday, approving its biggest reform in years that may boost sorely needed investment in Asia's third-largest economy.

PARIS (Reuters) - Carrefour, the world's second-biggest retailer, must slash prices, build more convenience stores and attract online shoppers as dire economic times make the current CEO's hypermarket revival plan increasingly obsolete.

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British supermarket chain Sainsbury's said on Wednesday that its first half net profit fell 13 percent after changes to its property investments, which offset solid sales growth across the group.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A ballot initiative strongly backed by Costco to close state-run liquor stores in Washington state and allow sales of hard spirits in supermarkets and big-box retail outlets took a wide lead in early returns on Tuesday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - An initiative backed by Costco to allow supermarkets and warehouse stores to sell liquor in the state of Washington has shattered an election spending record, and a recent poll showed the measure may pass.

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Metro AG <MEOG.DE> could become the latest European retailer to warn on profits next week, piling pressure on the German group to sort out a successor to Chief Executive Eckhard Cordes.

CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - Wal-Mart stores in the Chinese city of Chongqing reopened to surging crowds on Tuesday, two weeks after being shut down by local authorities for violating food and product standards.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Wal-Mart <WMT.N> stores in the central Chinese city of Chongqing were cited for violations 20 times over five years before the latest incident that led to the closure of all the chain's stores in the city, a Chongqing official said on Wednesday.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc's <WMT.N> China business has resigned citing personal reasons, after the world's largest retailer ran into trouble with Chinese authorities leading to store closures and employee detentions.

Robert Snyder, Big Dog's CFO, talks beer and ÔBourne Identity'. Robert Snyder has been chief financial officer of Big Dog's Brewing Co. ? Las Vegas' oldest brewery ? since 2000. The company started as the Holy Cow Brewery on the Strip in 1993 then closed in 2002, reopening as Big Dog's on North Rancho Drive a year later. It also operates two satellite locations at Sahara Avenue and Torrey Pines Drive and Nellis Boulevard and Owens Avenue, and is currently in the midst of an expansion that will allow it to begin selling beer in 22-ounce bottles.

Supermarket giant Tesco, announced on Wednesday that first-half net profits rose by 16 percent as higher sales abroad offset weakness in its home market.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Unionized Southern California supermarket employees at Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons ratified a contract deal reached last week that averted a threatened strike, said the union representing the workers.