ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A patent secured by Catalina Marketing Corp. that focuses on targeted marketing based on customer purchase history is raising questions and concerns about how the patent could have been...
Of all the technologies used by retailers, most observers agree that the one most essential to running the enterprise is that used at the point of sale.Not only does it process consumer sales transactions, but the POS...
NEW YORK -- Retailers who apply MIT-developed, product-ID technology to reduce out-of-stocks on their shelves stand to reap $98,000 per store annually, according to one of two studies released publicly last week by...
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. -- A Gordy's Foods store here has unveiled an online shopping service geared in large part to the summer resort community in this area, providing vacationers with groceries before they even check...
Some food distributors come to the conclusion that their core competency does not lie in transportation, so they outsource some or all of the process.One large distributor, for example, decided to outsource part of...
Food distributors basically have two transportation challenges: getting products delivered from their suppliers to their distribution centers (inbound deliveries); and getting products delivered from those DCs to...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, which uses radio waves as a communication vehicle for information about products, has been around for years, and has found some applications in retail. But in the...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Krasdale Foods, a wholesaler serving mostly small inner-city supermarkets, has begun providing its stores with counterfeit detection boxes that can be used to weed out phony currency as well as...
In Great Britain, space limitations give rise to stores of widely differing shapes and sizes, even within a single chain. That makes store-specific planogramming and product allocation for retailers like Marks &...
Despite years of reports, meetings and industrywide efforts, unsaleables -- products removed from distribution -- continue to represent a significant problem in the food-distribution industry.That reality was...