Ahold takes global standards seriously -- very seriously.After all, not many retail organizations will assemble a special 14-member team dedicated to the understanding and adoption of global standards, but that's what...
If retailers are becoming more interested in price optimization software, can electronic shelf labels (ESLs) be far behind?Though they have been around much longer than price optimization, ESLs, plastic LCD pricing...
Over the past 15 years, category management has been a much-discussed, but not always executed, means of maximizing the profit potential of product categories. Spartan Stores is proving that a commitment to category...
PAW PAW, Mich. -- One-store operator Paw Paw Shopping Center here has completed two tests of a new automated telephone marketing system that has so far elicited double-digit responses to an offer for free staple...
LAKELAND, Fla. -- By the end of May, two suppliers of produce will begin shipping pallets and cases equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to a produce warehouse operated by Publix Super Markets here...
CHICAGO -- Zaandam, Netherlands-based Ahold is in the midst of "preparedness readiness" and testing for global data synchronization in four countries, according to Rhonda Horn, director of global adoption strategies...
Stop & Shop's Shopping Buddy, a laptop-style tablet that attaches to the front of a shopping cart, now has competition.That competition comes in the form of the U-Scan Shopper, another cart-mounted display unit...
PARIS -- GlobalNetXchange (GNX), Chicago, and the WorldWide Retail Exchange (WWRE), Alexandria, Va., the two major retailer-based trading exchanges formed in 2000 at the peak of the Internet boom, announced last week...
Electronic shelf labels have had a checkered career in retail since their introduction in the 1980s. To date, Connecticut remains the primary stronghold for installation of ESLs, owing to a state law that waives item...
Perhaps the most challenging part of a retailer's supply chain is the cool chain.That's the part responsible for transporting, from the producer to stores, the highly perishable and time-sensitive products that are...