Retail grocery store services; retail supermarket services; franchising services, namely offering technical assistance to others in the establishment and operation of grocery stores; advertising and promotional services, namely buying blocks of advertising for licensees and franchises; promoting the goods and services of others by providing hypertext links to the web sites of others; preparing audio-visual presentation for use in advertising; providing television advertisement for others; preparing and placing advertisements for others; dissemination of advertising for others via an on-line electronic communications network; dissemination of printed and electronically-stored advertising matter; purchasing for others advertising space in periodicals and providing advertising space in periodicals; arranging and conducting trade show exhibitions in the field of food retail; rental of advertising space for licensees; marketing services, namely business consultation in the field of product merchandising, product marketing and retail grocery store operation; organizing exhibitions for advertising proposes in the field of food retail