Small-to-midsized retailers stand to benefit from the merger "frenzy" that took place last year between vendors of supply chain and retail technology, according to a retail analyst."Those retailers under $1 billion in...
AUSTIN, Texas -Whole Foods Market here announced last week that it has purchased enough renewable energy credits from wind farms to offset 100% of the electricity used in all of its stores, bake houses, distribution...
Food retailers have been treated to a seemingly endless variety of technology applications in recent years. Yet the application they value the most continues to be the point-of-sale system, without which business...
RICHMOND, Va. - Ukrop's Super Markets launched a one-store test last month of a new customer service system for the deli that consolidates walk-up orders with kiosk orders, while calculating the time customers need to...
TAMPA, Fla. - Following a test by Sweetbay here, shoppers in thousands of U.S. supermarkets will begin seeing more colorful coupons presented to them with their receipt at the checkout lane.That's because Catalina...
Speed, always an important ingredient in food logistics and retail technology, was an especially dominant theme in 2005.For example, one of the biggest news events of the year, Hurricane Katrina and its devastating...
This has been a year of exciting technology for the store as well as disturbing threats to the enterprise and supply chain. Next year retailers will seek to take advantage of the former while learning to deal better...