SN Technology Archives
Price Chopper Refrigeration System Is First in North America
SARATOGA, N.Y. — Price Chopper Supermarkets, Schenectady, N.Y., has installed a refrigeration system in a remodeled store here that uses a carbon dioxide cascade design for low-temperature refrigeration in the frozen food and ice cream departments, Hill Phoenix announced this week....
D’Agostino to Offer Home Scanning/Ordering System
LARCHMONT, N.Y. — D’Agostino Supermarkets here has agreed to offer its shoppers the option to use a Wi-Fi-enabled home ordering system from Ikan, Stamford, Conn....
Refrigeration System in New Harris Teeter Store Cuts Refrigerant Use
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Harris Teeter, Matthews, N.C., opened a new store here yesterday that includes the first installation in North America of a medium-temperature secondary refrigeration system that reduces the refrigerant charge by 97% over a standard direct-expansion system, according to Hill Phoenix, Conyers, Ga....
SN Acknowledges Technology Excellence
LAS VEGAS — SN presented the 2008 Technology Excellence Awards yesterday at the FMI Show/Marketechnics to Ahold USA, Associated Grocers, Baton Rouge, and Newport Avenue Market, winners in the chain, wholesaler and independent categories, respectively. ...
Brookshire Grocery Selects Fuel Pricing Tools
TYLER, Texas — Brookshire Grocery Co. here has selected PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile, and KSS Visualizer to help improve and simplify the fuel pricing process for 80-plus retail stores, KSS, Florham Park, N.J., announced yesterday. ...
Produce Traceability Initiative Agrees on Key Milestones
BOSTON — The Steering Committee of the Produce Traceability Initiative yesterday agreed on several key milestones that need to be completed in order to develop a whole-chain traceability system for the produce industry....
Unified Grocers Buys System to Help Retailers Manage Stores
COMMERCE, Calif. — Unified Grocers here has purchased MegaPath’s Retail Site SSL and Managed Security services to enable approximately 220 independent retail grocery stores (members of Unified Grocers) to securely access their in-store systems....
Giant Eagle to Launch Store-Specific Planograms in ‘09
PITTSBURGH — Giant Eagle here plans to begin implementing store-specific shelf planograms in January 2009 for product allocation at its 158 corporate stores, according to Ray Smaltz, the chain’s vice president of grocery category management....
Store Inefficiencies Cost Industry 1% of Sales, Sharegroup Says
PITTSBURGH — A year-old sharegroup that includes two major food retail chains and five large CPG companies has identified gaps in implementation of merchandise plans and promotions at the store level that it says costs food, drug and mass channels approximately 1% of annual gross product sales, or an estimated $10 billion to $15 billion dollars. ...
Acme Opens Environmentally Friendly Store
MALVERN, Pa. — Acme Markets here, a division of Supervalu, announced the opening tomorrow of what it called the “first environmentally friendly supermarket in the Philadelphia area.”...
About Half of Retailers Offer Frequent Shopper Program: FMI
ARLINGTON, Va. — A new study from the Food Marketing Institute here found that 48.8% of surveyed retailers have a frequent shopper program and 90% of their customers participate in it. ...
Hannaford Bros. Invests ‘Millions’ to Upgrade Security
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Hannaford Bros. here said yesterday that it was investing “millions” of dollars in upgraded security in the wake of the data breach that exposed 4.2 million credit- and debit-card numbers to potential theft. ...
Readers Digest Association to Support ShoptoCook Kiosks
BUFFALO, N.Y. — ShoptoCook here, which provides interactive meal-solution kiosks in more than 300 grocery stores, has agreed to have the Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) be its exclusive media content provider and integrated sales resource....
Ball’s Food Stores to Revamp Website
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Ball’s Food Stores will launch a new customized website powered by MyWebGrocer. ...
Hannaford Bros. to Automate Task Management at Warehouse
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Hannaford Bros. will begin piloting a task management system in its distribution center here on April 28, according to Ward Malmquist, operations manager for distribution at the facility. ...
