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...Prior to the economic slowdown, we were prospering," says Jason Hart, president of Aldi U.S., based in Batavia, Ill. And now? "We're certainly getting a lot more attention." The privately held company generated an estimated $5.8 billion in U.S. sales last year, up from $5.3 billion in 2006, according to trade journal Supermarket News. Aldi now has about 950 stores in 29 states and plans to open more than 100 stores in the next two years in Connecticut, Missouri and Texas...
...bastions of private-label goods are looking a lot better to a broad range of shoppers. "Prior to the economic slowdown, we were prospering. But now we're seeing customers looking to save money, and our foot traffic has increased," says Jason Hart, president of Aldi US, based in Batavia, Ill. "There seems to be more demand for our stores, and people don't want to sacrifice quality." Aldi arrived in the U.S. in 1976, hoping to replicate a business model that proved successful in Europe. With U.S. food inflation then in the double digits, the company's timing couldn...
...week after the ambush, Maupin appeared in a videotape surrounded by masked men. In the summer of 2004, an al-Jazeera broadcast purportedly showed his execution, but Pentagon officials said they couldn't be sure it was authentic. So his family - and the Maupins' hometown of Batavia, just east of Cincinnati - has kept a vigil for Matt ever since. A Pentagon official confirmed that Maupin's remains had been found last week, and that DNA testing confirmed his identity...
...could become one of your characters in real life, who would it be? -Ryan Fleming, Batavia, N.Y.I have played such idiots over the years. Probably, Danny Ocean. He married Julia Roberts, he has done very well and has great friends...
...good at something," he says. "Things fell into place - everybody depending on me, letting me know I was doing a good job." Hughes had every intention of reupping. His wife had other ideas. After he "separated" from the military last spring, they moved to her hometown of Batavia, Ill., into the basement of her parents' split-level home. He found seasonal work measuring flooring, and, as that work dried up, filled out applications at Target and Home Depot with growing panic, "everywhere except fast food...