There are many areas in the food-distribution industry that call for cooperation between food distributors (retailers and wholesalers) and manufacturers, but perhaps none more than unsaleables, the flawed products...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Winn-Dixie, based here, has begun deploying a logistics management system that will enable the chain to optimize the use of its own trucking fleet or third-party carriers, rather than...
DALLAS -- In an unusual move aimed at addressing the technology needs of independent retailers, longtime partners Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, based here, and Retalix, with U.S. headquarters here, announced last...
At the 2002 Joint Industry Unsaleables Management Conference in Newport, R.I., last month, speakers often pointed to seasonal products as one of the primary sources of unsaleables that retailers have to return to...
Technology at the store level is what is most apparent to shoppers. Yet back at chain headquarters, numerous systems have been used to manage the company as a whole.In the 1960s, supermarkets began equipping their...
It's rare that a seminal event in an industry can be traced to a single moment in time, but that is the case for supermarkets.It was on June 26, 1974, at 8:01 a.m. in a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, that the first...
There have always been supermarkets that have offered home delivery of purchases ordered over the phone, but it was always done on an informal basis. The formal home-delivery business, coupled with electronic ordering...
DALLAS -- While collaboration between food distributors and their suppliers is a much talked about and sought after goal, there remain "significant barriers" to its realization, according to Mark S. Hansen, chairman...
CHICAGO -- UCCnet needs to explain its importance to the industry more effectively if the standards body is to boost its membership and succeed in bringing data synchronization to the food industry, said Randy Salley...
CHICAGO -- Smart & Final, Commerce, Calif., has completed a chainwide implementation of new standards-based enterprise systems that includes a corporate data repository, POS platform, loyalty system and digital...