Safeway is the only North American retailer to legally commit to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and opening its energy logs to auditors — moves it hopes will make it money
When Metro Group opened its first Future Store at an Extra supermarket in Rheinberg, Germany, in late April 2003, the store may have gained as much notice for the appearance of supermodel and Rheinberg native Claudia...
C&K Market is about a month away from becoming one of the few retailers to go live on an open source database system. Open source refers to any software whose source code is made freely available to users or...
Frank Yiannas, vice president of food safety for Wal-Mart Stores, encouraged other food retailers to join Wal-Mart and several other major global retailers in embracing the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), an...
Along with the rapid growth in the number of retail convenient-care clinics in the United States, 10 third-party companies representing a total of 139 clinics called it quits during the past year, according to an...
On March 17 of this year, Hannaford Bros., Scarborough, Maine, stunned the food retailing industry when it announced that a data breach at the checkout lanes of its stores had exposed 4.2 million credit and debit...
Kroger has begun touching up the beauty department in some local stores near its headquarters here in what observers see as an effort to support higher-quality product and woo more cosmetics shoppers. A call to a...
Major food industry trade associations last week rebutted statements made in a recent Associated Press article that lobbying efforts by the industry in 2003 and 2004 watered down record-keeping rules under the...
Weis Markets here, which operates 157 stores under the Weis, Mr. Z’s and King’s banners, has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, the EPA...