SN Technology Archives
PRN, Bon Appétit to Air Content on Retail Network
SAN FRANCISCO — Thomson’s Premier Retail Networks (PRN) here and Bon Appétit magazine, published by Condé Nast Publications, New York, yesterday announced a programming agreement to produce custom content for display on PRN’s Checkout TV network in supermarkets nationwide. ...
Super S Foods Selects Price Optimization System
SAN ANTONIO — Super S Foods, an operator of 49 grocery stores throughout southern and central Texas, announced the selection of KSS Retail as its provider of price and promotional modeling and optimization. ...
Kings Super Markets Personalizes Website
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Kings Super Markets here, which operates 26 stores, has revamped its website, www.kingswebsite.com, via a partnership with Grocery Shopping Network, Minneapolis. ...
Coke and Wegmans Complete Test of Collaborative Store Ordering
ATLANTA — Coca-Cola here and Wegmans Food Markets, Rochester, N.Y., have completed a test of collaborative store ordering in eight Wegmans stores that generated higher sales and lower days of supply in the test stores, according to Kraig B. Adams, director, collaborative industry development, for Coca-Cola....
Peapod to Offer Online Shoppers Personal Discounts
QUINCY, Mass. — Internet grocer Peapod, a division of Ahold USA here, announced this week that its shoppers will earn extra savings instantly on select purchases as the result of a partnership with Concept Shopping, Skokie, Ill....
Food Lion Sharing POS Data With Suppliers
SALISBURY, N.C. — Food Lion here has started sharing POS data with suppliers by store, day and stockkeeping unit by using Demand Signal Management, from Retail Solutions, Sunnyvale, Calif. ...
FreshDirect Enhances Cell Phones to Improve Deliveries
NEW YORK — Online grocer FreshDirect here has selected AirClic, Trevose, Pa., to facilitate the tracking of its grocery delivery orders from its Long Island City warehouse facility to customers' doorsteps. ...
United Supermarkets Retrofits Cases With LED Lighting
LUBBOCK, Texas — United Supermarkets here has retrofitted low- and medium-temperature refrigerated display cases in all of its 47 stores with a light-emitting diode (LED) solution from Lumination, Cleveland, a GE Consumer & Industrial business. ...
Affiliated Foods Southwest Selects Price Optimization Service
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Affiliated Foods Southwest, a cooperative grocery wholesaler here, has selected Revionics, Sacramento, Calif., to provide its price and promotion optimization service to Affiliated’s member retailers. ...
Schnuck Markets Selects Workforce Management System
ST. LOUIS — Schnuck Markets here has selected RedPrairie’s Workforce Management solution, including time and attendance, accruals, forecasting and optimized scheduling, for all of its 103 stores across the Midwest, Milwaukee-based RedPrairie announced yesterday....
South African Chain Promotes via Text Messages
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Fruit & Veg City here, which operates over 100 stores, has selected Clickatell, Redwood City, Calif., to communicate store announcements and sales promotions to customers via text messages on their mobile phones....
Self-Service Transactions to Pass $1.7 Trillion by 2012: Study
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Transactions at self-service kiosks will surpass $607 billion this year in North America as consumers continue to embrace self-service technology, according to a new research study conducted by the IHL Group here....
Stop & Shop Energy Plan Helps Avert Summer Brownouts
QUINCY, Mass. — Stop & Shop here is participating in a program that reduces its energy usage at 415 stores — all of its more than 360 stores, as well as some at sister Ahold division Giant Food, Landover, Md. — during times of peak energy demand such as are experienced during the summer months....
ECRM Spotlights Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard
CLEVELAND — Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing, which helped Wal-Mart develop its Sustainable Packaging Scorecard, said it has launched a program to help vendors work with the program....
Unified to Support NCR’s POS System for Independents
COMMERCE, Calif. — Unified Grocers here has agreed to support and promote the NCR Advanced Checkout Solution point-of-sale software solution to its approximately 3,000 independently owned retail grocery customers in the western United States. ...
