NEW YORK - Last month retailers got a chance to see what a high-tech gourmet food store of the future might look like.The futuristic market, an exhibit called X06 Marketplace at the National Retail Federation's annual...
LONDON - In the wake of Tesco's recent announcement that it will open a new, small-format retail food concept on the West Coast next year, questions are being raised about a possible conflict of interest involving the...
The high cost of credit transactions continues to rankle retailers. But what can they do about it?That was one of the biggest questions addressed at the Food Marketing Institute's Electronic Payment Systems Conference...
SAN DIEGO - Since launching a loyalty marketing program based on consumers' cell phones in late September, Broadway Marketplace, a one-store operator in Cambridge, Mass., has enrolled 1,700 shoppers and boosted...
SAN DIEGO - Hannaford Bros.' top IT executive expressed some concerns about the current state of radio frequency identification, although he was hopeful that a new test would help resolve some of the issues with the...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - At Meijer here, IT never operates in a vacuum.Though not always the case in the past, the 171-store supercenter operator now takes great pains to ensure that its IT department operates in...