NEW YORK -- Global synchronization standards for pricing and DSD (direct-store delivery), which would expand the range of data that could be accurately exchanged between trading partners, are close to being approved...
SALISBURY, N.C. -- To improve accuracy in its perishables scales, Food Lion here plans to roll out by March a two-way scale-management system linking its headquarters with its 1,250 stores, according to ADC, Tampa...
Supermarkets are famous for being cautious adopters of store-level technology. It took a good decade before checkout scanners were installed in half the supermarkets in the U.S. It's been more than two decades since...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here plans to install a ventilation control system for commercial kitchen hoods in eight new corporate stores under construction, and in future new corporate stores, according to Mike...
The thing that may be most striking about the five Visionaries chosen for the Technology & Logistics section is that, for the most part, they were not technologists by training or by background. Only Jack Strubbe...
SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion here is testing data synchronization via UCCnet with five manufacturers, following a successful implementation with Nestle Purina PetCare, putting the chain at the leading edge of UCCnet...
In the 1970s, scanning emerged as a technology that could help cashiers increase their productivity, reduce errors, improve the ergonomics of the job and, ultimately, offer better customer service. The big issue -...
BARRINGTON, Ill. -- A Jewel-Osco store here has begun the first U.S. "proof-of-concept" test of a portable laser scanning device that enables loyalty card shoppers to scan their own groceries during the shopping trip...
As in most things, a retailer's ethnic marketing efforts can be helped considerably by technology and, perhaps more important, by the data that drives that technology.Data, if it's good, can tell quite a bit about the...