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British grocer Tesco is considering expanding its online grocery delivery service to the States. Several small and medium-sized North American grocers interested in forming joint ventures have approached Tesco. In England, the grocer fills orders from a network of 150 supermarkets rather than from a series of warehouses, as many U.S. online grocery delivery services do. ... Forbes’ June 12 issue features an article suggesting that Amazon merge with General Growth Properties. “An author wrote that. It’s his ramblings. ... But who knows what we’ll see in the future?” GGP CEO John Bucksbaum said. ... The defibrillators that Kravco installed at its centers (SCT, May 2000) have passed their first major test, with units in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maine saving customers who went into sudden cardiac arrest, according to the company. In addition, Kravco centers have provided emergency oxygen 19 times to date for problems such as asthma attacks, fainting and heart-attack symptoms. … Massachusetts residents at least on the surface seem to have soured on the prospect of the planned Boston Mills at the 1,450-acre site that had housed the South Weymouth Naval Air Station. In 1998, news of the project was greeted warmly, but a recent poll by the Patriot Ledger Quincy newspaper showed that locals opposed the center by a 2-1 margin. ... Seen on the ICSC Spring Convention Leasing Mall floor: Pyramid Cos. featured the red-hot Swedish retailer H&M as a definite or prospective tenant at more than a dozen of its centers — double what it had previously announced. Moreover, Vornado Realty Trust President Michael Fascitelli during a panel discussion revealed that H&M’s flagship Manhattan store is averaging a staggering $4,050 per square foot — a figure, he admitted, that would probably drop when more units have opened. … Crossroads Shopping Center, Atlanta, was the site of a brief battle between local residents and BI Inc., a company that planned to operate a community correctional office there for some 5,000 misdemeanor probationers. BI, which signed on for space in the center in February, withdrew the plans in late May. ... In case you missed it, at the end of the Spring Convention’s Trade Expo, retail development solutions company TolTest announced the winner of the Kodak digital camera that it raffled off: Larry Roberts, Field Engineer for Bridgestone/Firestone.

— Dave Bodamer