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Sorbara's Installs Bagged and Belted Self-Checkouts 

PITTSBURGH -- Sorbara's Shop n' Save, an independent retailer with five stores here, has deployed Fujitsu U-Scan self-checkout systems from StoreNext Retail Technologies, Plano, Texas, StoreNext announced yesterday. ...

Martin's Installs Recipe Kiosks in Four Stores Following Test 

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Martin's Super Markets here, which operates 20 stores, last week installed kiosks from Healthnotes, Portland, Ore., in four stores, following a test in a new store opened last fall. ...

Certified Grocers Midwest Selects Training Program for Warehouse Managers 

HODGKINS, Ill. -- Certified Grocers Midwest here has selected Tom Zosel Associates, Chicago, to train its warehouse managers in management skills such as delegating, communicating, resolving conflict and motivating associates, Tom Zosel Associates announced yesterday. ...

Giant of Binghamton Offers Upgraded Bill Payment Service 

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Giant Food Markets, a 12-store retailer here, is the first merchant to go live with the Internet Protocol (IP)-based version of the IPPPAYS bill payment and prepaid processing system running on the Verifone 37xx terminal, IPP of America, Fairfield, N. J., announced this week. ...

PCI Body Takes Over Standards for PIN Devices 

WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- The PCI Security Standards Council here, created last September to administer the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), has agreed to take over administration of the PCI PED (Pin Entry Device) standard. ...

Tesco Readying Supply Chain Management for Entry Into U.S. 

LONDON -- Tesco here has selected Micro Focus to support its international supply chain operations, notably in the United States, Micro Focus, Rockville, Md., announced yesterday. ...

Time Switch Smooth Sailing at AWI 

ROBESONIA, Pa. -- If the experience reported by Glenn Kriczky is any measure, then food retailers appear to have made it through the earlier-than-usual hour-forward switch to daylight savings time Sunday morning unscathed. ...

NRF's CIO Blasts Credit Associations' Security Program 

WASHINGTON -- In a telephone media briefing held Friday by the National Retail Federation here on "The Real Cost of Data Security," Dave Hogan, NRF's senior vice president and chief information officer, described the credit card industry's payment card industry (PCI) data security standards as a "convoluted" program. ...

NRF Announces New Director of Loss Prevention 

WASHINGTON -- The National Retail Federation here yesterday announced that Angélica Rodríguez has been named NRF's director of loss prevention. ...

Supermarket Workers Could Be Required to Get Hepatitis Vaccinations 

LOS ANGELES -- Supermarket employees who handle raw or unprocessed foods may be among food-service workers and others who will be required to be vaccinated for hepatitis-A, pending a study ordered by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors here, according to a spokesman for the County Supervisor's office. ...

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