"The end of another French dream," a retail industry trade publication lamented.
Speaking to trade publication Retail Week, Walker said the regulator's conclusion proved supermarkets were not guilty of wrongdoing and he insisted customers were getting an "amazing deal".
James Russell, wholesale managing director at AF Blakemore, which runs a string of Spar stores, told the trade publication Retail Newsagent it was a "massively opportunistic" move by PepsiCo: "It impacts the offer we can make for our customers.
The most successful, so far, Mark Bowden's "The Best Game Ever," has sold 25,149 copies, according to Nielsen Book-Scan, which tracks about 70percentt of retail sales; its publication in June gave it a head start over Gifford's month-old book, which has sold 8,758 copies.
Sears Roebuck is seeking a buyer for its Lands' End division for an asking price of $1.2 billion, according to a report Tuesday by a retail industry trade publication.
As editor in chief of Retailing Today, a business publication for the retail industry, I found the analysis spot on as it relates to consumer trepidation.
He will be responsible for sponsorship, licensing, broadcast rights, television negotiations, publications, retail and Internet development.
The bookish life: I ended up at MoMA for 10 years as director of retail operations and publications, but then I got a divorce and my midlife crisis happened when my sister-in-law and a partner opened the Traveller's Bookstore at Rockefeller Center around 28 years ago.
"It's a question of pride here," said Walter Loeb, editor of The Loeb Retail Letter, an industry publication.
Sales for the private Ikea Group, which is notoriously tight-lipped about financials, were up 5percentt in January, according to a February article in Retail Week, a trade publication in Britain.
