CHICAGO -- As several retailers prepare to embark on scan-based trading initiatives later this month, retailers and manufacturers already involved in scan-based trading say they have only scratched the surface in...
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co., a 110-store franchisee based here, is retiring its paper trading stamps and installing in-store kiosks for frequent shoppers to redeem their rewards."With the paper...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- Wegmans Food Markets, Rochester, N.Y., will broaden a pilot program in which it shares frequent-shopper data with manufacturers, including Nabisco and Coca-Cola, in an effort to improve...
NEWTON UPPER FALLS, Mass. -- Retailers seeking ways to tap into the e-commerce bonanza as well as optimize their supply chains will find ideas and expertise at this year's Retail Systems 1999 Conference and Exposition...
ST. LOUIS -- Schnuck Markets here and Nabisco will begin a pilot early next year in which the retailer and the vendor work closely to develop a detailed distribution-level sales forecast and replenishment plan for two...
Systems integration is less a luxury and more a necessity in today's retail environment, particularly when every facet of an organization needs access to data in order to make decisions about which products to carry...
Decision-support systems have traditionally been headquarters-based tools, helping top executives decide the big, chainwide issues.But retailers are now seeing huge advantages in bringing decision support to the store...
Traditional in-store marketing efforts may, to some extent, be victims of their own success. Many in the industry feel the average supermarket is overcrowded with signs, banners, floor graphics and other advertising...
Supermarkets, wholesalers and manufacturers have long had input in category management, but now some brokers' data-gathering and analysis capabilities are making them valuable contributors to the process.Retailers...
PHILADELPHIA -- A new generic electronic data interchange message is being developed to enable retailers to test Year-2000 compliance of their EDI systems as well as those of their trading partners. The test EDI...