He said he was concerned that the resulting company would have too much control over supermarket sales in some cities.

Overall supermarket sales increased by only 3.65 percent during that period.

That represented 12 percent of all supermarket sales.

Eagle Supermarkets had a 6 percent share of supermarket sales in Houston one year earlier.

Retail supermarket sales alone surpassed the $2.0 billion dollar mark.

C. Nielsen, the market research group that monitors supermarket sales.

Pathmark's supermarket sales came to all but $9 million of the corporate total.

The magazines have such strong supermarket sales that they would prosper without advertising.

Since 1982, supermarket sales have increased to 87 percent of all grocery purchases, from 75 percent, court papers show.

Figures released today showed that supermarket sales fell 5.2 percent in August from a year earlier.