THE GLOBAL DATA SYNCHRONIZATION NETWORK (GDSN), the Web-based system through which suppliers are able to send standard data about products to retailers, has expanded substantially since its inception in 2004...
Wegmans Food Markets has endorsed the Rapid Recall Exchange, an online recall service that standardizes and accelerates food and product recalls and withdrawals, as the way we want to receive recall information, said...
If a supplier is lax about accurately measuring the weight and dimensions of its products, it's probably not going to make many friends at Wegmans Food Markets. That's because the Rochester, N.Y.-based chain, as much...
Stephen Vowles, senior vice president of marketing for Stop & Shop/Giant Food, believes that his company's Scan It! portable shopping device positions it well for the digital future when shoppers will use mobile...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has installed skylights in about half of its 159 stores — mostly stores that have been built from the ground up — and plans to put them in new...
Wegmans Food Markets has developed a new metric for the scorecard used to measure suppliers and itself: master data completeness, a measure of the completeness of the data associated with an item.
Wegmans Food Markets has endorsed the Rapid Recall Exchange, an online recall service that standardizes and accelerates food and product recalls and withdrawals, as "the way we want to receive recall information,"...
PITTSBURGH — Giant Eagle here has joined the Association of Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), a division of the National Retail Federation, Washington.
CINCINNATI-BASED KROGER, among the food retailers that have begun scanning the GS1 DataBar (stacked omnidirectional) on produce stickers, said it is seeing some benefits from the technology, although problems persist...
With the GS1 DataBar slated to appear unaccompanied on coupons in North America beginning next January, there is still some uncertainty as to whether food retailers will be ready for the change. To assess whether...