Western Beef is a low-cost supermarket chain located mostly in the New York City metropolitan area.

As of 2010, the chain operated 21 stores in the city and suburbs.

A store was opened in Boca Raton, Florida in March 2009.

A store in Pembroke Pines, Florida was opened in 2011.

Shop ’n Save is a grocery store chain with forty stores in the St. Louis, Missouri, market.

The company, headquartered in Kirkwood, Missouri, is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of SuperValu, based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Brookshire Grocery Company is a Tyler, Texas-based supermarket chain with 177 stores operating in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

Until February 2011, the company had operated four stores in Mississippi but pulled out with a sale to Kroger and a local chain, Food Depot.

My Weekly is a magazine for women in the 45-and-over age bracket, published by D. C.

Thomson & Co. Ltd of Dundee, Scotland.

It tends to consist of short stories, reader contributions, knitting or sewing patterns, and celebrity gossip.

Retail markets and shops have a very ancient history, dating back to antiquity.

Retailing involves the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

Retailers satisfy demand is identified through a supply chain.

Retailers typically make a variety of strategic level decisions including the type of store, the market to be served, the optimal product assortment, customer service, supporting services and the store's overall market positioning.

Once the strategic retail plan is in place, retailers devise the retail mix which includes product, price, place, promotion, personnel and presentation.

In the digital age, an increasing number of retailers are seeking to reach broader markets by selling through multiple channels, including both bricks and mortar and online retailing.

Digital technologies are also changing the way that consumers pay for goods and services.

Retailing support services may also include the provision of credit, delivery services and a range of supporting services.