“Winn-Dixie plans to leave the state. Kroger’s weekly advertising circular tells shoppers an awful lot about what’s going on behind the scenes in North Carolina’s grocery industry. Across the top of the front page, big blue letters read ‘Welcome Winn-Dixie Customers.’”

“The Kroger Co. ranked as the nation’s third largest retailer and the top supermarket chain in an annual list of top 100 retailers released Tuesday by the industry’s largest trade group.”

“Home Depot Inc. on Monday confirmed a report in trade journal Oil Express that it’s launching a pilot project in Nashville, Tenn., to test convenience stores in its parking lots.”

“Third on the list of things I’d change is the lack of proper groceries here. We have a couple of corner markets and even a Yamazaki, but they are small and charge — for example — $5 for an orange where I’d only have to pay an ever-so-reasonable $3 in …