The federal rules governing the use of refrigerants are in a transition period, leaving food retailers with a number of unanswered questions, according to an industry refrigerant expert. For example, it is well known...
Death, taxes and refrigeration leaks seem to be constants in the supermarket industry. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, supermarket refrigeration systems on average lose about 23% of their...
Global warming or more precisely, impending federal legislation aimed at reducing global warming has large supermarket retailers looking at their carbon footprint. Take Safeway. As reported in SN's Sept. 21, 2009...
Food Lion, Salisbury, N.C., is opening a store here today that is the chain’s first—and the second in the U.S.—to use a carbon dioxide-based cascade refrigeration system.
Bloom, a division of Food Lion, is “encouraged” by the early results of a test of a mobile shopping device, known as PAT (personal assistant technology), in one store in Fort Mill, S.C.
In an age when consumers have become used to handling cell phones and iPods, are they ready to incorporate a portable electronic device into their grocery shopping trip? After much trial and error, Stop & Shop, Quincy...
Among the few food retailers involved with portable shopping systems, Bloom, a division of Food Lion, Salisbury, N.C., has long offered self-scanning devices that allow shoppers to scan and bag as they go through the...
NEW YORK Next spring, Whole Foods Market stores in the New York Metropolitan area including seven in Manhattan will have a new local source of fresh produce: an urban farm that uses hydroponic technology to grow...
In anticipation of federal legislation that will establish a cap-and-trade system to reduce the production of greenhouse gas emissions, food retailers should assess their carbon footprint and their level of energy...