11.   The move would provide savings for the new company by allowing it to standardize store formats and reduce duplicated services.

12.   The store formats for the two companies are vastly different.

13.   When the five-and-dime store format was invented at the turn of the century, people thought it would last forever.

14.   With new management, new products, and a new store format, the US division thinks it can find a balance between the two.

15.   Supercenters combine its general merchandise store formats with grocery stores, while Neighborhood markets combine a pharmacy store with a grocery format.

16.   The supercenter store format was developed in the US during the fifties.