Ahold Checks Out 100% of Peapod

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NEW YORK — Royal Ahold announced on Monday that it would acquire the remaining 42% of online grocery service Peapod that the supermarket retailer did not already own.

The move comes after a recent announcement that leading British supermarket chain Tesco was partnering with Safeway in its GroceryWorks.com online shopping venture; and also following last week’s collapse of Webvan’s online grocery service. There was no word whether or not Ahold would re-brand the Peapod venture to its own name, as Safeway said it would do with GroceryWorks.

“Strategically,



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