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Short Take: HomeRuns' parent to merge with Food Lion

Food Lion plans to merge with Hannaford Brothers, which owns online grocer HomeRuns, in a $3.6 billion deal that will create the sixth-largest company in the food retailing industry. A Hannaford spokeswoman said she didn't expect any changes within HomeRuns as a result of the merger. Hannaford launched HomeRuns in 1996 in Massachusetts, where it delivers groceries that customers order from its Web site.

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Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Food Lion plans to merge with Hannaford Brothers, which owns online grocer , in a $3.6 billion deal that will create the sixth-largest company in the food retailing industry. A Hannaford spokeswoman said she didn't expect any changes within HomeRuns as a result of the merger. Hannaford launched HomeRuns in 1996 in Massachusetts, where it delivers groceries that customers order from its Web site.