Quick notes

Whole Foods expects to more than double its sales, from $4.7 billion to $12 billion, by 2010. To do so they expect to begin opening 30 new stores per year (last year they opened 12).

Bon-Ton has completed its purchase of Saks' northern stores. Consolidation will begin with merchandising and marketing, which will be centered in Milwaukee, where the Saks stores had been headquartered.