When it comes to promotional coupons, the food industry often follows a rather narrow, unenlightened course.For example, the industry has long needed electronic coupon clearing to replace the archaic hand-counting...
DUSSELDORF, Germany -- In its first analysis of customer response to the technologies offered at its Future Store, Metro Group said it found a "very positive reaction," but conceded that the store's systems needed to...
Perhaps even more than a retail chain, a food wholesaler needs to be in constant communication with its key constituents -- the suppliers from whom it gets products on one side, and the independent retailers to whom...
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- The Uniform Code Council here denied a research group's report that UCC is competing with the ISO group in the development of standards for the new electronic product code.In a wide-ranging...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In this year's Food Industry Productivity Convention & Exposition, self-distributing retail chains have played a greater planning role and will have a larger representation than in the past...
America's famed troubadour Bob Dylan sang about changing conditions in the 1960s, and added an indelible phrase to the vernacular: The times they are a-changin'. It's certainly a description that can be applied to the...
The recent EPC Symposium held in Chicago's McCormick Place was similar to other conferences in having the usual array of educational sessions and the maze of vendors exhibiting their wares.Yet it was also far...
One of the most important technology initiatives in the world today affecting retailers and their trading partners is data synchronization -- a fancy way of saying getting the data straight, making sure the...
CHICAGO -- At the EPC Symposium here last week, Mike Di Yeso, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Uniform Code Council, set the wheels in motion to develop global standards for the EPC (electronic...
Up until this week, you could try out EPC technology in your warehouse or store, but you had to be a member of the club -- that is, a sponsor of the technology's creator, the Auto-ID Center, based at MIT, Cambridge...