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ACTION NEEDED NOW: Stop & Shop Supermarkets “negotiating” with Bay Windows to bring sexually graphic, revolting anti-Catholic newspaper back into its stores! Your hard work got it removed in the first place!  As you remember, about three weeks ago the two largest supermarket chains in New England, Stop & Shop and Shaws / Star Markets, bowed to pressure from their customers across the state (i.e., you!).  Both companies agreed to stop distributing ”Bay Windows,” a sexually graphic, anti-family homosexual newspaper, in their stores.This decision was hailed by families all over New England.  Click here to see what was in an...

Publix Super Markets is branching out with a Hispanic flair. The Lakeland-based grocer confirmed Thursday it plans to convert two of its 850 stores into Hispanic-format supermarkets, with bilingual employees, Spanish music on the loudspeaker, and hard-to-find imports. Publix Sabor, which means Publix Flavor, will open in early May in Kissimmee and Hialeah. The two Florida stores will feature expanded selections of Hispanic foods, including new offerings from Publix's private-label food line, such as a mojo marinade and frozen plantains.

CHULA VISTA – Two former supermarket union members were sentenced yesterday for aiding in an attack last fall on a replacement worker who was hit in the face with a bat. The man who actually struck the worker has not been arrested. "The case is still open and is still under investigation," prosecutor Claudine Ruiz said after yesterday's hearing. Authorities have talked with the man they now believe struck the worker, but say they need more witnesses to come forward before they make an arrest, she said. Many of the pickets who saw the confrontation that led to the attack...

<p>KABUL, Afghanistan -- Assad "Chelsea" Mehedizada cradles a mobile phone under his chin as he bags groceries with one hand and punches prices into a calculator with the other. It is late afternoon and the stream of callers and customers is constant.</p>

<p>Battle with butchers union prompts beloved specialty supermarket to close its doors after more than 50 years.</p> <p>Mary Owens looked shocked as Eleanor Maurer calmly gave her the news.</p> <p>"Hi, Mary. Did you know we're closing Atlas in a month?"</p>

One person was killed and 22 were injured, two of them seriously, in a suicide bombing in a supermarket on Uruguay Street in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yovel neighborhood shortly before 2 P.M. on Friday afternoon. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militia linked to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the bomber was a 16-year-old girl from the Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem. Police said a female suicide bomber detonated a large device inside the supermarket. Officers said they had found three bodies at the scene of the attack, and were investigating whether it...