Technology and Logistics Archive
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. ...
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....
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. ...
Industry Feedback Sought on Trading Partner Performance Metrics
DALLAS — Until the end of June, retailers and manufacturers will be able to submit comments on a new industry standard, Trading Partner Performance Metrics (TPPM), that is being developed by GS1, Brussels, the global standards organization. ...
Online Product Recall Portal Slated to Launch This Summer
DALLAS — The Food Marketing Institute and GS1 US plan to launch the Product Recall Collaboration Zone, an online portal allowing manufacturers to disseminate standard recall information to retailers, by late summer of this year, said Patrick Walsh, FMI’s vice president of industry and trade development. ...
EPA's GreenChill Cuts Greenhouse Gases
WASHINGTON — Since launching last November, the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership has nearly tripled its membership and prevented emissions of 2.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, the group said yesterday. ...
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