WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's GreenChill Partnership has created a new online "Greenhouse Gas Impact Calculator" that allows food retailers to compare the effect that their refrigerant...
NEW YORK While Western Beef may conjure up images of cattle out on the plain, its latest store is located in an urban food desert. On Aug. 25, New York state and city officials, with an assist from baseball great...
IF ROBOTICS and other pharmacy automation allow retail pharmacists to interact more with patients, they may have a new opportunity next year to generate some extra revenues for their stores. That's because of two...
SAN DIEGO — Just as ATMs added unprecedented convenience to banking, Asteres here sees its ScriptCenter kiosk making prescription refill pick-ups a lot more convenient for retail pharmacy customers. Introduced...
Should retail pharmacies use robots to fill prescriptions? Retailers have been grappling with that question for more than a decade, but recent developments in robotics technology as well as the movement toward central...
LAKELAND, Fla. By participating in the GS1 Rapid Recall Exchange industry portal, Publix Super Markets has been able to cut its response time to product recalls by 90%, said Michael Roberson, Publix's director of...
ON JAN. 1, 2012, RETAILERS that operate pharmacies will need to be in compliance with two new standards governing the electronic transmission of prescription claims and other communications to insurance companies. In...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — While Winn-Dixie Stores here may not use in-store robotics to dispense prescriptions, the chain is employing web-based scheduling systems to improve workflow and customer service in its 374...
Last week, Darryl Strawberry, the iconic slugger in the 1980s and 1990s for New York’s two baseball teams, the Mets and the Yankees (he also played for New York’s two ex-baseball teams, the Los Angeles...
NEW YORK — New York state and city officials, with an assist from former baseball great Darryl Strawberry, marked the official opening of a new Western Beef store in the South Bronx today, the first supermarket...