PAW PAW, Mich. -- Having built an in-store database that contains 100 days' history of individual shopper purchases, Paw Paw Shopping Center here is now working to link that information to its new World Wide Web page...
TOORONGA, Australia -- Coles Myer here will roll out electronic payments terminals to 600 Coles Supermarkets in 60 days, with each terminal featuring capability designed to speed productivity.Greg Every, general...
Communication, communication, communication" may well have unseated the longstanding "location, location, location" maxim for retailers in 1996.At the heart of nearly every technology investment and strategy this year...
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway here will turn over to a third-party distribution company on Jan. 1 operations and assets of its massive distribution center in Tracy, Calif.Discussions are ongoing but the two parties...
"Wait and see" has no place in the vocabulary of today's most technologically adventurous retailers.Instead of sitting on the sidelines, watching the pilot tests of competitors, a handful of progressive companies are...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer here plans to equip up to a dozen new stores next year with a front-end security system that integrates cashier-monitoring software with both live and recorded video.The systems will...
BROOKINGS, Ore. -- Bad checks are paying off quite nicely at C&K Market here, whose automated deposit system generates up to $1,500 weekly in new revenue while successfully collecting on the great majority of shoppers...
As retail losses due to employee theft continue to outpace shoplifting, retailers are looking more closely at cashier-monitoring technology.Homegrown and off-the-shelf software that sifts through point-of-sale data...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Supermarket retailers surrendered an average 1.78% of their total sales to shoplifters, dishonest employees and other sources of shrink last year, according to a new survey released today.In the...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- United Grocers here will launch today the second major wave of a broadbased information systems program designed to empower retailers with access to timely, store-specific data and a suite of...