Retailers are finding many more ways to reach out to their customers through their websites and email communications. The most popular website feature is company history, employed by 70% of all respondents, followed...
Another demand-based technology, price optimization, topped the list of applications that respondents said they would test or launch in 2008, with nearly one in four (24%) selecting it. Interest in price optimization...
One of the more pressing issues facing retailers last year was the rise in the number of product recalls initiated by manufacturers. The food industry has been forced to evaluate and in some cases improve its mechani...
Less than half (46%) of the respondents to SN’s latest Technology Survey said their company is able to trace a tainted product back in the supply chain.
Food Lion marketing executives said last week that the company is leveraging sophisticated demand-based applications, as well as collaborating with a growing number of suppliers, in order to offer products and prices...
Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., will open the first of what it is calling its second-generation of High-Efficiency stores (HE.2) in Romeoville, Ill., on Jan. 23, according to Leslie Dach, Wal-Mart’s...
The rising cost of food commodities has led to the biggest jump in retail food prices in 17 years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Jan. 3. Food retailers are mostly passing along their higher costs to consumers...
Produce supplier Tanimura & Antle and Wal-Mart Stores, among others, are in the midst of a field test of RFID tags on reusable plastic containers to determine whether the tags can be used repeatedly in shipments to...
While the price optimization market has heated up in the past year with the emergence of new vendors (Revionics, KSS) and the going public of an established vendor (DemandTec), one of the pioneers of the technology...
Led by a yearlong test conducted by Big Y, a number of food retailers are participating in a program to replace manufacturers' paper coupons with paperless discounts redeemed electronically at the POS. According to...