Key developments: Named CEO; Wegmans is ranked the No.1 place to work by Fortune.What's next: Pursuit of data sync at company and industrywide.It's been a good year for Danny Wegman.After 28 years as the No. 2...
Key development: Defending Wal-Mart amid continued growth.What's next: More supercenters, RFID and upscale products.The Wal-Mart Stores juggernaut has not been rolling as smoothly as in years past, but that is not...
CARTERET, N.J. -- Pathmark Stores here is launching a three-store test this week of an anti-theft system that visually reads the identity of items at the bottom of shopping carts at the checkout and transmits the...
While many retailers tend to be reluctant to embrace new technology, Wal-Mart Stores and Supervalu are not among them. Those two companies remain among the most forward-thinking users of technology in the industry.Yet...
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- Although most food retailers are now able to scan and process 13- and eight-digit EAN bar codes from outside North America, a small number of mostly small to midsized companies still lack that...
One of the more recent attempts to document the benefits of global data synchronization, dubbed Project Jury, was released in March under the auspices of Capgemini, New York, and the Global Commerce Initiative.The...
DALLAS -- The merger of UCCnet and Transora, announced last month, is expected to become final by late August, according to Bob Noe, chief executive officer of Chicago-based Transora, who will become CEO of the new...
Miguel Lopera has a dream.Lopera, the chief executive officer of both GS1 (formerly EAN International) and GS1 US (formerly the Uniform Code Council), described his dream at the kickoff general session at U Connect...
Food retailers are rightly concerned about the quality of their products and the condition of their stores -- the consumer expects nothing less.By contrast, retailers are not as apt to view the data on those products...
WASHINGTON -- A consortium of six trade associations, including Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers of America, both based here, has launched an effort to address the lingering issue of product data...