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Festival Foods Attributes Jump in Website Visits to Online Tools 

ONALASKA, Wis. — Festival Foods, a 12-store operator based here, surpassed 12 million page views at its website, FestFoods.com — more than four times the volume it saw in 2006, reported Grocery Shopping Network (GSN), Minneapolis....

Retailers, Wholesalers Lacking in Traceability Technology: SN Survey 

NEW YORK — Less than half (46%) of the respondents to SN’s latest Technology Survey said their company is able to trace a tainted product back in the supply chain. ...

Nash Finch to Deploy Price Optimization in Corporate Stores 

EDINA, Minn. — Nash Finch here has selected Revionics to provide price and promotion optimization technology and services for Nash Finch’s corporate stores, Revionics, Sacramento, Calif., announced Friday. ...

Food Lion, Hannaford to Offer Pay Cards to Employees 

SALISBURY, N.C. — nFinanSe, Tampa, Fla., yesterday announced that it has signed an agreement with Food Lion here and Hannaford Bros., Scarborough, Maine, both divisions of the Delhaize Group, to be the exclusive pay card program provider for the chains’ participating employees....

FMI Touts Upcoming Online Recall Tool 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Food Marketing Institute is developing an online tool to facilitate and standardize industry recalls, Tim Hammonds, president and chief executive officer of FMI, said Tuesday at the FMI Midwinter Executive Conference here....

Wegmans to Test RFID for Prescriptions: Report 

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Wegmans Food Markets here is planning to test radio frequency identification tags for prescriptions, according to RFID Journal....

Wal-Mart Set to Open Gen-2 High-Efficiency Store in Illinois 

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., will open the first of what it is calling its second-generation of High-Efficiency stores (HE.2) in Romeoville, Ill., on Jan. 23, according to Leslie Dach, Wal-Mart’s executive vice president of corporate affairs and governmental relations....

Giant Eagle Selects Assortment Planning and Space Optimization System 

PITTSBURGH — Giant Eagle here has selected Chicago-based Galleria Retail Technology Solutions' assortment planning and space optimization solutions, Galleria announced yesterday. ...

Hy-Vee, Big Y Select Loyalty and Promotion Management System 

DALLAS — Retalix here announced yesterday that Hy-Vee and Big Y in North America, Carrefour in Europe and WuMart in China are among more than a dozen grocery and convenience chains that have recently selected Retalix Loyalty as their customer loyalty and promotions management system....

Save-A-Lot to Use Nielsen Data for Merchandising 

ST. LOUIS — Save-A-Lot here, a division of Supervalu, has selected the Nielsen Co., Schaumburg, Ill., as its provider of marketing information for merchandising and market decision support across its 1,150-store chain, Nielsen announced yesterday....

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