1.   Over time, this supermarket company had become highly diversified.

2.   Analysts say the supermarket companies are looking better lately because they are passing on lower costs to their customers, which increases sales.

3.   Another is Safeway, a well-managed supermarket company whose cost-reduction drive should continue to help margins for another few years, Miller said.

4.   A news report said Shekem is talking to Supersol Ltd. and Blue Square, the two top Israeli supermarket companies.

5.   But the concern among advocates for the poor is that no other supermarket company will take the risk to invest in low-income neighborhoods.

6.   He lost that job a couple of years ago and began driving a delivery truck for a smaller supermarket company.

7.   In a business in which the profit margins are thin and size matters, the Wal-Mart threat has supermarket companies scrambling to make acquisitions.

8.   Investors are demanding better returns at a time supermarket companies are losing business to unlikely competitors that now stock grocery items.

9.   Koninklijke Ahold, a big Dutch supermarket company, bought Giant Food in the Washington-Baltimore area.

10.   Koor also agreed to sell half its holdings in Gamda Trade, a supermarket company, to Coop Blue Square.