HOUSTON -- Randalls Food Markets here is testing a link to its web site that offers a customized virtual store in which customers can find store specials and download coupons.The linked site will also feature...
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Barlow Foods, an independent retailer here, plans to promote its nearly two-year-old home-shopping service this summer.While the retailer would not release specific figures, it indicated home...
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- As Wakefern Food Corp. here moves to a PC-based point-of-sale platform, the cooperative is installing new POS electronic payment terminals in member stores to handle their needs now and in the...
CHICAGO -- Supervalu, Minneapolis, has experienced increases in sales and gross profit, and a reduction in its inventories, as a result of its category management practices.Category management is a component of...
Leading-edge retailers are expanding their use of space-management systems, from computer-generated "pretty pictures" of one section's shelves to storewide analyses, sometimes incorporating consumer and financial data...
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Supervalu here will expand its use of electronic data interchange to include advance ship notices and deduction/chargeback transactions in the summer and the fall, respectively.With these...
TOPEKA, Kan. -- J.M. Bauersfeld's here plans to launch a home-shopping service this summer that will allow customers to order groceries using a touch-tone phone.The service will initially be available within the city...
SAN ANTONIO -- While the most basic category management relationship involves only a manufacturer and a retailer, early results of an effort adding broker and wholesaler input to the mix have been positive.This...
The push to convert to new-generation coolants is picking up steam.As retailers gain experience from initial tests in converting from chlorofluorocarbon gases to hydrochlorofluorocarbon or hydrofluorocarbon coolants...
ATLANTA -- Re-engineering product movement from the store receiving area to the shelf could result in potential savings of more than $14 billion industrywide, according to the Implementing Store Efficient Consumer...