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Deloitte Consulting to Conduct Environmental Sustainability Study 

WASHINGTON - The Grocery Manufacturers Association here and Food Products Association yesterday announced the selection of Deloitte Consulting to produce a report on practices in sustainability for the CPG industry. Deloitte will conduct an analysis of the corporate environmental landscape, assess emerging retailer expectations and identify models of success in environmental sustainability management. ...

Circle K Selects Price and Promotion Optimization Systems - LAVAL, Quebec  

Circle K, a division of Alimentation Couche-Tard here, has selected DemandTec Price and DemandTec Promotion optimization systems, DemandTec, San Carlos, Calif., announced today. ...

Ukrop's Installs Environmentally Friendly Refrigeration System in Va. Store  

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Meijer Receives Award for Marketing via Cell Phones 

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Meijer here and SmartReply, Irvine, Calif., received an award for the Best Use of Mobile Marketing, Relationship-Building, Tuesday night from the Mobile Marketing Association during the MMA's 2nd Annual Mobile Marketing Awards dinner in Los Angeles. The award was based on Meijer's program to notify consumers of gas price increases during the summer months....

Harris Teeter Installs Fiber-Optic Lighting in Virginia Store 

MATTHEWS, N.C. - Harris Teeter here has installed Fiberstars' EFO fiber-optic lighting systems in a Leesburg, Va., store and placed a second order for a store in Alexandria, Va., Fiberstars, Solon, Ohio, announced yesterday. An additional three stores are currently being audited for future installations. "Fiberstars' EFO is the most energy-efficient lighting solution available for in-store accent lighting," said John Davenport, chief executive officer of Fiberstars, in a statement. ...

Expanding Famima Chain Selects StoreNext Store Systems 

TORRANCE, Calif. - Famima Corp. here, a subsidiary of Japanese convenience store giant Family Mart, has selected StoreNext Retail Technologies, Plano, Texas, to provide Fujitsu POS hardware, Epson multi-function printers, consulting services, and POS and enterprise software, StoreNext announced yesterday. ...

Giant Eagle to Pilot System That Enables Product Trace-Backs 

PITTSBURGH - Giant Eagle here plans to pilot Manhattan Associate's Trading Partner Management (TPM) system at two warehouses with five suppliers in February, before rolling it out to all of the chain's seven warehouses by next summer, according to J.A. Hilzendeger, Giant Eagle's director, distribution systems and operations. The system allows suppliers to access a retailer's purchase order as well as lot number and expiration date requirements via a Web portal. ...

Carrefour Deploying Master Data Management Solution 

PARIS - Carrefour Group here last month deployed ibs Referential, Soft Solutions' Retail Master Data Management (MDM) solution, after completing the project analysis phase, Soft Solutions, San Bruno, Calif., announced last week. When fully deployed, different information sources will be consolidated into a "single version of the truth" for all of Carrefour's business operations at both the group and operating company levels, Soft Solutions said. ...

ARTS Releases Standard to Manage Product Images/Text 

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Seattle Independent First to Install IBM POS System with Biometrics 

SEATTLE - Thriftway Supermarket, a one-store independent here, is the first retailer to install a new IBM SurePOS ACE point-of-sale application that provides a turnkey solution for the Pay By Touch biometric payment service, IBM, Raleigh, N.C., announced yesterday. The biometric service, from Pay By Touch, San Francisco, allows shoppers to pay by linking a fingerscan at the POS with an electronic payment method. ...

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