1.   Advertising costs are supported by local food retailers and by manufacturers of food products.

2.   An employment tribunal has ruled that food retailers are fully justified in refusing to employ men who wear them.

3.   Coupons are provided both by local food retailers and by food processing companies.

4.   Rather than setting up their own discount arm, food retailers could simply sell cut-price brands in their superstores.

5.   The results will be of interest to food retailers and have a wider significance for other areas of retailing.

6.   The major food retailers are still planning to expand their chains of stores and will therefore remain important clients.

7.   Analysts anticipate that health care companies, drugstore chains, and food retailers should do well in this environment.

8.   At the time, both Bols and Wessanen were being pursued by the likes of Heineken NV and both were too small to negotiate reasonable contracts with food retailers.

9.   Ahold is already the number one food retailer on the East Coast.

10.   Ahold is already the top food retailer on the East Coast.