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Big data is creating value for retailers in several ways, but the most important is supporting faster fact-based decisions, according to a report from Brick Meets Click....More

BRUSSELS – More than 125 supermarkets in North America are using secondary, cascade and transcritical refrigeration systems that incorporate natural refrigerant carbon dioxide partly or completely, according to a new study from market development company shecco here....More

KEASBEY, N.J. – Wakefern Food Corp., the member-owned wholesale cooperative here, recently launched ShopRiteDelivers.com, an e-commerce service that delivers full cases of selected non-perishable products to customers in and out of the markets served by Wakefern’s 250 ShopRite and 50 PriceRite stores....More

NEW YORK — Retailers and restaurants accounted for 24% of all data breaches in 2012, second to financial organizations, which accounted for 37%, according to a new report from Verizon Enterprise Solutions here....More

LAKELAND, Fla. — Publix Super Markets here has selected InterScale, a scales management system from Applied Data Corp. (ADC), Tampa, Fla., for data transmission to and from the bar-code labeling scales in its 1,068 stores....More

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- KSS Retail, Cincinnati has agreed to provide Spartan Stores here with advisory services around price optimization and the use of its PriceStrat software solution....More

Citi Research, New York, cited Wal-Mart Stores as one of its “Top Retail Technology Picks for 2013” in a report this year on technology use by retailers....More

Dehumidification technology is helping many retailers ward off the deleterious effects of excess in-store moisture on food and equipment....More

AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods Market here is leading the food retailing industry in obtaining the “Green Globes” building certification — an alternative to the popular LEED certification....More

MATTHEWS, N.C. —Family Dollar Stores here has signed a multiyear contract with Retail Sense, Tampa, Fla., to implement its IntelliSense marketing resource management system....More