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  • Feb. 11, 2013
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    Niemann Foods’ CEO: Technology Makes a Difference for Independents

    Rich Niemann, president and CEO, Niemann Foods, in this video interview discusses how independent grocers can make progress through technology-enhanced shopping. “We are very, very enthused about the smartphone shopping apps,” he says....More
  • Feb. 8, 2013
    Article

    Bashas’ Fights to Restore Confidence in Credit Cards

    CHANDLER, Ariz. — Bashas’ here is working to reassure its shoppers that despite a cyber-attack, credit cards are safe to use in its stores....More
  • Feb. 8, 2013
    Article

    Take the SN Technology Survey

    NEW YORK — SN is gathering responses to its latest Technology Survey and invites food retailers and wholesalers with corporately owned stores to take the survey....More
  • Feb. 6, 2013
    Article

    Publix Customers Create Cakes, Virtually

    LAKELAND, Fla. — Publix Super Markets has a new Facebook app that allows users to create virtual cakes to share with friends....More
  • Feb. 5, 2013
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    Bashas' Cites Malware in Customer Data Breach

    CHANDLER, Ariz. — Bashas’ here said Tuesday that it was the victim of a cyber-attack through which the perpetrators appear to have gained access to customers’ payment-card information....More
  • Feb. 5, 2013
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    Trade Groups Launch Transportation Collaboration Project

    ORLANDO — The Consumer Goods Forum, Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association have launched an initiative to identify opportunities for retailers and manufacturers to share transportation capacity in order to improve efficiencies and deliveries....More
  • Feb. 4, 2013
    Article

    Woods’ System Addresses Shrink at Self-Checkout  

    Woods Supermarket is using a video analytics system to ensure that products are scanned....More
  • Feb. 4, 2013
    Article

    Leveraging Big Data   2

    Metro’s partnership with Dunnhumby shows how a retailer can better understand its customers through the adroit handling of loyalty and digital data streams....More
  • Jan. 31, 2013
    Article

    BevMo’s IT Is ‘Up in the Cloud’

    CONCORD, Calif. — Most of the technology platforms used by BevMo! (formerly Beverages and More!) here, including its POS systems, are running via Web-based cloud services, rather than hosted in-house....More
  • Jan. 29, 2013
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    Woods Cuts POS Losses With Video Analytics

    BOLIVAR, Mo. – Woods Supermarket here has saved “a significant amount of money” by using a video analytics system to ensure that products are scanned correctly at both regular and self-checkout lanes, said Doug Haworth, the chain’s director of loss prevention....More
  • Jan. 25, 2013
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    Retail Group Formed to Address NFC Technology

    WAKEFIELD, Mass. — The NFC Forum, a nonprofit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, has announced the creation of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that will bring together leaders from several markets, including retail, to collaborate on NFC solution implementation, interoperability, best practices and future requirements....More
  • Jan. 24, 2013
    Article

    ARTS to Launch Work Team for Charity Standard

    SAN FRANCISCO – The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), a division of the National Retail Federation, will launch a formal work team for the development of a technical standard for charitable giving at the ARTS quarterly meeting Feb. 4 here....More
  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Charlie C’s Deploys Scale Management Software

    DUNN, N.C. — Carlie C's, a 16-store IGA food retailer here, has selected and implemented the InterScale Scales Management Software system, from ADC Data Corp., Tampa, Fla....More
  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Price Chopper Promotes Wagar

    SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Price Chopper Supermarkets here said Wednesday it has promoted Sam Wagar to vice president, technical services....More
  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Lund Launches Shopping App

    EDINA, Minn. — Lund Food Holdings, which operates 11 Lunds and 11 Byerly’s grocery stores in the Twin Cities and surrounding area, launched its first app in both the iPhone App Store and the Google Play Store for all 22 stores....More
  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Tech Effort Transforms A&P: CIO

    Starting in full force after A&P’s emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, CIO Nirup Krishnamurthy is nearly a year into the IT overhaul, most of which is expected to take 24 to 36 months....More
  • Jan. 22, 2013
    Article

    Safeway, Wakefern Employ Till Reconciliation System

    NEW YORK — Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif., has improved the speed and accuracy of its till reconciliation process across its roughly 1,700 stores via the installation of technology, said Steve Rempel, the retailer’s group vice president of application development....More
  • Jan. 21, 2013
    Article

    Putting Independent Spin on Mobile Marketing

    SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Independents have special opportunities when it comes to making strides with mobile-enabled consumers....More
  • Jan. 16, 2013
    Article

    BevMo! Testing Mobile Coupons, Clearing System

    NEW YORK – BevMo! (formerly Beverages and More!), Concord, Calif., and Envizio, Fremont, Calif., demonstrated a mobile coupon redemption and electronic clearing system at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Annual Conference here this week....More
  • Jan. 15, 2013
    Article

    Roundy’s Sees ROI in Price Optimization

    NEW YORK – Roundy’s Supermarkets has found a “significant ROI” in the price optimization system it has employed over the past two years, said Jason Benish, vice president of pricing and strategic initiatives for Roundy’s....More
  • Jan. 15, 2013
    Article

    A&P Pursuing IT Transformation, Says CIO

    NEW YORK – Following its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy last March, A&P, Montvale, N.J., is nearly a year into a transformational IT overhaul expected to take 24-36 months and encompass all aspects of its business operations....More
  • Jan. 15, 2013
    Article

    Foodland Tests Infrared People Counter

    HONOLULU – Foodland Super Market here, which operates 32 stores, has recently installed thermal-powered people-counting and checkout-management systems from U.K.-based Irisys in a pilot program at four stores....More
  • Jan. 14, 2013
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    NRF 2013: The ‘Big’ News

    “Big” is the watchword for the National Retail Federation’s 102nd Annual Conference, which began Sunday and runs through Wednesday at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York....More
  • Jan. 14, 2013
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    Woodman’s Launches Mobile Scanning App

    MADISON, Wis. - Woodman’s Food Markets, Janesville, Wis., has launched a mobile scanning application developed by NCR at its Gammon Road location here....More
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