SAN ANTONIO — The mpXML group, which consists of meat and poultry suppliers and retailers who work on data standards for the meat and poultry supply chain, will be releasing a “Traceability for Meat and...
SAN ANTONIO — Wal-Mart Stores is analyzing data to help lower-income shoppers
get through hard economic times, according to Rollin Ford, executive vice president and
chief information officer.
This city, with one of the worst food desert problems in the U.S., last month launched a new program aimed at bolstering the prospects of struggling independent grocers and bringing new food stores into underserved...
DETROIT Given the proliferation of food stores in this city mostly corner liquor stores and convenience outlets an effort is under way to help those stores include fresh produce among their offerings. The program...
PITTSBURGH This month, Giant Eagle here completed the rollout of a store-specific endcap optimization system to all of the 54 independent supermarkets that carry its banner. The chain had finished implementing the...
For many reasons, the time is right for SKU rationalization, said Jim Hertel, managing partner, Willard Bishop, Barrington, Ill., With conventional supermarket operators under continuing pressure from Wal-Mart Stores...
With three states Minnesota, Nevada and Washington already having passed laws requiring retailers to be compliant with PCI (payment card industry) data security standards (DSS), expect a card data security law to be...
Giant Food Stores here, a division of Ahold, has reported on a SKU rationalization effort initiated last year with 20 categories, and divulged results for three of those categories.