Technology and Logistics Archive
Ahold Chains Select New Payment Terminals
QUINCY, Mass. -- Stop & Shop here and Giant-Landover, Md., divisions of Ahold, have selected VeriFone's MX870 multimedia customer-facing payment system with signature capture for use in their stores, VeriFone, San Jose, Calif., announced yesterday. ...
FMI Applauds European Report Critical of Interchange Fees
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Food Marketing Institute here last week applauded a report by the European Commission on the bank and credit card payments business that raised "serious concerns about the levels of multilateral interchange fees."...
Wal-Mart CEO Announces New Environmental Strategy
LONDON -- As the keynote lecturer at the Prince of Wales Business and the Environment Program here, Lee Scott, president and chief executive officer, Wal-Mart Stores, yesterday unveiled the company's latest environmental initiative. ...
EPA Supports New Refrigeration System Being Tested by Food Lion
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hopes that its new GreenChill Partnership with the supermarket industry will "achieve broad adoption of advanced refrigeration systems that are ozone-friendly and significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases," said Jeff Cohen, manager of the EPA's Alternatives and Emissions Reductions program. ...
Vendors Form Alliance to Help with Data Security
COLORADO SPRINGS -- Eight data security companies yesterday announced the formation of The Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance. PCI SVA will assist members of the payment card industry and the PCI Security Standards Council -- composed of merchants, banks and point-of-sale vendors -- in educating the business community on the requirements and business value of the PCI Data Security Standard, a global benchmark intended to improve security throughout the payment card transaction process....
Whole Foods Leads List of Green Power Retailers
WASHINGTON -- Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas, leads the list of the Top 10 Retail Partners compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency here as part of its Green Power Partnership Program....
Irish Chain Superquinn Installs Self-Checkout Lanes
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Superquinn here has signed a contract to deploy NCR FastLane self-checkout in 19 stores, NCR announced Friday. ...
Safeway Joins California Climate Action Registry
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway here announced yesterday that it has joined the California Climate Action Registry, the state's only official registry for greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects. ...
Wegmans Selects System to Generate Orders for 800 Vendors
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Wegmans here has selected Prescient, West Chester, Pa., to power its replenishment ordering process, Prescient announced yesterday. ...
Metro Group Achieves High Read Rates in RFID Tests
DUSSELDORF, Germany -- Metro Group here has partnered with Checkpoint Systems, Thorofare, N.J., in a series of UHF RFID technology trials that resulted in 98.5% read rates at one of Metro Group's distribution centers near Hamm, Germany. ...
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