WASHINGTON -- Retailers in seven Southern states are gearing up to take part in an electronic benefits transfer pilot that seeks to standardize procedures across state lines.EBT, the electronic distribution of...
ATLANTA -- Oshawa Foods, a division of Oshawa Group, Etobicoke, Ontario, has slashed costs and inefficiencies by outsourcing all warehousing and transportation operations.Among the immediate payoffs were reduced per...
Retailers planning to stockpile chlorofluorocarbons beyond the deadline for halting production -- as well as those converting to replacement gases -- recognize the crucial need to control leaks.Although supermarkets...
NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- Genuardi Super Markets here is using a new computer program to improve its monitoring of refrigeration systems.Through a software package at the corporate office, the retailer is compiling records...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Marsh Supermarkets here has cut electronic payments processing time in half with a system that will serve as a launching pad for an array of new point-of-sale initiatives.Marsh's 87 stores are now...
Having proved its power to speed the store checklane, bar-code symbology is now moving into the warehouse area and driving more efficient product receiving, put-away and retrieval.Retailers and wholesalers have not...
WASHINGTON -- A retailer can save nearly $2 million each year by automating direct-store-delivery systems and exploiting new technologies, according to a report by the Joint Industry Project on Efficient Consumer...
Retailers are finding the road to assured price accuracy is traveled best when all systems are walking in step.Making sure the technology and pricing procedures are working together to ensure price accuracy is...
MONTVALE, N.J. -- A&P here has begun offering home shopping services via personal computer through six of its New York City Food Emporium stores, now linked up with a national on-line service provider.Food Emporium...