Technology and Logistics Archive
Sustainability Task Force Calls for Use of Reusable Bags
LAS VEGAS — The Food Marketing Institute’s Sustainability Task Force has recommended to the FMI board that the food retailing industry “should promote the use of reusable bags” instead of paper or plastic bags, said Bob Garrity, senior vice president, store planning, construction & conservation for Giant Eagle, Pittsburgh. Garrity, chairman of the task force, provided an update on its activities on Monday at the FMI Show/Marketechnics here. The task force is also calling for making the recycling process of paper and plastic bags available to consumers. Garrity added that the task force expects federal legislation on carbon footprint restrictions will be passed. In response, “we should have a common language on what a carbon footprint is and what we should do as an industry,” he said. “We’re working on providing tools the industry can use to understand [the meaning of] carbon footprint.”...
Price Chopper Selects Supply Chain Applications
LAS VEGAS — Aldata Solution announced at the FMI Show/Marketechnics here that Price Chopper, Schenectady, N.Y., has selected the Aldata G.O.L.D. Retail Supply Chain Suite to centralize merchandising and procurement and to improve replenishment management operations across its 116 stores. ...
Publix Gives High Priority to Sustainability Initiative
LAS VEGAS — Though Publix has been focused on conservation since its founding in the 1930s, the company “was in the closet” on sustainability until last July, said Michael Hewett, manager of environmental services, Publix Super Markets, Lakeland, Fla., yesterday at the FMI Show/Marketechnics here. ...
SN Acknowledges Technology Excellence
LAS VEGAS — SN presented the 2008 Technology Excellence Awards yesterday at the FMI Show/Marketechnics to Ahold USA, Associated Grocers, Baton Rouge, and Newport Avenue Market, winners in the chain, wholesaler and independent categories, respectively. ...
Shelf Space Will Go to Greenest Companies, Author Says
LAS VEGAS — The CPG companies that answer sustainability questions the best and prove to have the smallest sustainable footprint “are going to get more shelf space,” said Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, during his keynote session at the FMI Show/Marketechnics here yesterday....
Brookshire Grocery Selects Fuel Pricing Tools
TYLER, Texas — Brookshire Grocery Co. here has selected PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile, and KSS Visualizer to help improve and simplify the fuel pricing process for 80-plus retail stores, KSS, Florham Park, N.J., announced yesterday. ...
Produce Traceability Initiative Agrees on Key Milestones
BOSTON — The Steering Committee of the Produce Traceability Initiative yesterday agreed on several key milestones that need to be completed in order to develop a whole-chain traceability system for the produce industry....
Unified Grocers Buys System to Help Retailers Manage Stores
COMMERCE, Calif. — Unified Grocers here has purchased MegaPath’s Retail Site SSL and Managed Security services to enable approximately 220 independent retail grocery stores (members of Unified Grocers) to securely access their in-store systems....
Giant Eagle to Launch Store-Specific Planograms in ‘09
PITTSBURGH — Giant Eagle here plans to begin implementing store-specific shelf planograms in January 2009 for product allocation at its 158 corporate stores, according to Ray Smaltz, the chain’s vice president of grocery category management....
Store Inefficiencies Cost Industry 1% of Sales, Sharegroup Says
PITTSBURGH — A year-old sharegroup that includes two major food retail chains and five large CPG companies has identified gaps in implementation of merchandise plans and promotions at the store level that it says costs food, drug and mass channels approximately 1% of annual gross product sales, or an estimated $10 billion to $15 billion dollars. ...
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