21.   The grocery chain said the beef was sold in two types of packages.

22.   The Italian supermarket chain said Coke representatives had told it to invest heavily in display cases and refrigerator equipment if it wanted to sell Coke.

23.   The hospital chain says that ownership motivates doctors to work hard for the hospital on behalf of their patients.

24.   The movie theater chain said that on Saturday it would start using sunflower oil instead of partially hydrogenated canola oil.

25.   The sandwich chain said it will open a store in the capital Bogota and in Cali, the second-largest city.

26.   The supermarket chain said it would create a subsidiary to provide the service and make all of its grocery items available for home delivery or store pickup.

27.   The Seattle chain says its stores in Los Angeles and Chicago are doing OK.

28.   The Winston-Salem, N.C.-based chain said it has granted the singer and part-time Palm Beach resident franchise rights to build outlets in the county.

29.   Three years ago, only one movie theater chain in Greater Boston was experimenting with commercials, while other chains said they were dead set against the ads.

30.   A British supermarket chain said Wednesday it has introduced Braille on labels of its own-brand liquor bottles, to help the blind.