10:25 AM EST - Loblaw Cos. Ltd. : reported a 2.6 percent year-over-year gain in same-store sales Thursday while announcing fourth-quarter earnings of $40 million, up from a writedown-affected year-ago loss of $756 million. Canada's biggest supermarket operator said overall sales for the quarter ended Dec. 29 were $6.97 billion, up by 2.7 percent from $6.78 billion in the year-earlier period. Loblaw Cos. Ltd.
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