1.   During the war he served with the R.A.F. and before joining Douglas Reyburn he was involved with retail grocery business.

2.   As Americans trim their beef consumption and discount stores gobble a bigger slice of the retail grocery business, supermarkets are looking for innovative ways to market more meat.

3.   Adding to the pressure has been the expansion of giant discounters like Kmart and Wal-Mart into the grocery business.

4.   After nine money-losing years in the online grocery business it pioneered, Peapod Inc. Thursday appeared ready to pack it in.

5.   Allen Tenenbaum looked up to Isaac Galanti, learning from him both the grocery business and sensitivity, friends said.

6.   But if the Newark store is any indication, the retail grocery business is thriving.

7.   But Kmart, which entered the grocery business a few years ago through its Super Kmart centers, could start its own price war.

8.   But Webvan never won enough customers to make money in the low-margin grocery business.

9.   By expanding into the grocery business, Wal-Mart wants to increase the volume of shoppers coming into its stores.

10.   Croft said he had been retired from the grocery business for several years.