CHICAGO -- Wal-Mart Stores has informed all of its vendors that it expects pallets and cases shipped to Wal-Mart distribution centers to come with RFID (radio frequency identification) tags beginning in 2005, sources...
The food industry has put a great deal of effort into advancing data synchronization over the past year, and it's beginning to pay off.Why such interest in data synchronization? In a phrase, bad data. With the...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- At just about any conference these days related to technology in retailing, the subject of radio frequency identification, particularly as it is being developed by the Auto-ID Center at MIT...
RHEINBERG, Germany -- Metro Group, Germany's largest retailer, last week opened a "Future Store" here where it is testing a range of retail technologies, including many based on radio frequency identification (RFID)...
BETHEL, Conn. -- Like many IGA independents, Caraluzzi's Bethel Food Market here has to compete with a major chain in its marketplace. For Caraluzzi's, that chain is Ahold USA division Stop & Shop, Quincy, Mass....
PITTSBURGH -- Giant Eagle here is well into a chainwide rollout of a shrink measurement program aimed at identifying "known loss" and using that knowledge in perishable production forecasts.Giant Eagle is recording...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A test of a "warehouse of the future" concept by C&S Wholesale Grocers with a single retail customer has increased throughput and cut costs at a C&S warehouse, according to the president of a...
MINNEAPOLIS -- With an eye toward expanding beyond its traditional wholesaling and retailing businesses, Supervalu is stepping up its efforts to market its third-party logistics company, the logistics company's...
MIAMI -- Phase three of a retail field test of the MIT-developed electronic product code is set to begin, according to an executive at Procter & Gamble, a participant in the test.Speaking at the Logicon 2003 logistics...
Though marked by historical tensions and antagonisms, the relationship between retailers and their manufacturer trading partners has become increasingly collaborative in recent years.Collaboration, at least, is a...