Metro sales, profits rise

Metro Inc. said this week its Q3 profit came to $275-million, up from $252.4 million a year earlier. On a per-share basis, that amounted to $1.14 per diluted share, compared to $1.03 in the comparable period of 2021. Sales rose to $5.87-billion from $5.72-billion. Same-store sales of food edged up by 1.1 percent.