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More than a year ago, the Hannaford Brothers grocery chain became one of the first employers in the country to encourage workers to go abroad for medical care. In the time since, the company has redefined the concept "medical tourism." "I think at that time it was probably on the outer edges of innovation to even offer it," says Hannaford spokesman Mike Norton. Norton says it was more cost-efficient for the company to send people to the Singapore hospital because it charged less than U.S. hospitals and had demonstrated strong patient outcomes. "In their region of the world, they have...

Unauthorized computer programs, secretly installed on servers in Hannaford Brothers supermarkets compromised up to 4.2 million debit and credit cards... PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in Hannaford Bros. Co.'s supermarkets across the Northeast and in Florida enabled the massive data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards, the company said Friday...The Scarborough, Maine-based grocer confirmed a report in The Boston Globe that it told Massachusetts regulators this week about the link between the breach and the illicit programs, known as "malware." The company doesn't know how the malware -...

One day after saying they were pulling their ads from Portland TV station WGME to avoid political controversy, officials at the Hannaford supermarket chain reversed their decision Friday for the same reason. Hannaford on Thursday announced it was pulling its ads from WGME (Channel 13) because of the station's planned airing of a documentary film critical of presidential candidate John Kerry. Hannaford spokesperson Caren Epstein said Thursday the supermarket chain was "apolitical" and did not want to be associated with the growing controversy over the film. On Friday, Epstein said the company was reversing its decision, again to try to...

Three strikes and you're out! Breaking and developingChristian-news-in-maine.com staff report The Hannaford super market chain has finally convinced many Christians and pro-traditional family values families that they do not want their business. First the Hannaford grocery chain, while going out of their way to help celebrate and signify every other form of religion or culture, insisted that the best they could do for the most Holy Day of Christianity, Easter, was a funny little Easter bunny and a few eggs. Then Hannaford decided to side with the infamous United Way agasint the Boy Scouts of America. And now this:... It...