date:Dec 20, 2013
from $5 million in net profit for the same three-month period in 2012.
Stater Bros. fiscal year also ended on Sept. 29, and the company reported $30.4 million in net profits for the year, compared to $37.7 million in the same period in 2012. The numbers were slightly skewed because the 2012 quarter and fiscal year were longer than the same periods in 2013.
Sales were stronger for both the quarter and the year, and company officials were not worried about the small declines in profit. The compa