Customers use Euronet's software and payment system to buy airtime on the phone itself, at ATMs, or at point-of-sale locations in places like grocery stores.

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Clearly, they have found their niche as they place their Redbox kiosks in high traffic consumer spots like grocery and drug stores.

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But I know from my small town in Arkansas, they paid their employees WAY better (like 10-25% more) than local grocery stores and it was quite competitive to get the Wal-mart jobs, especially if you were a teenager.

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Analysts say businesses like Dollar Tree and Dollar General have positioned themselves to draw shoppers from grocery stores and big-box retailers.

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From neighbors and small grocery stores word spread of Niman's tasty, naturally raised meat to chefs like Chez Panisse's Alice Waters, the doyenne of California cuisine.

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Though grocery stores have long put impulse items near the register, Old Navy wanted to avoid a supermarket-like ambience so selected specialty sodas, superhero lunch boxes, glitter-covered piggy banks and other items it thought looked "nostalgic and convenient, " a spokeswoman says.

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