NEW YORK -- New York City residents will need to wait a while longer to live in a cashless society, with the smart card pilot on Manhattan's Upper West Side facing a shutdown at the end of the year.Citibank and Chase...
Retailers and wholesalers leading the pack in front-end innovations are leaving traditional point-of-sale units behind.Instead, they are rolling out solutions that hone in on the functionality needed to process orders...
DENVER -- Supermarket retailers worldwide are using the Internet to enhance the consumer shopping experience, but the degree to which it is accepted on a consumer level is not universal, according to a new industry...
DENVER -- Even retailers deep into the process of year-2000 corrections are starting to feel the effects from the millennium bug computer problem, especially in forward-looking systems such as order planning and...
Companies seeking more powerful executive information systems are migrating toward browser technology, increasingly robust data warehouses and systems that give top management an enterprise-wide view of operations...
GOLDEN, Colo. -- Boston Market, credited with competitively sparking supermarkets' interest in home-meal replacement, is taking a page from their playbook with a frequent-shopper customer-loyalty program.Boston Market...
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Peapod here will be the exclusive on-line grocery service advertised on three high-traffic Internet services when it partners with Excite, Redwood, Calif., this month. Peapod expects this exposure to...
SN's five "leading-edge" retailers differ in size, geography and basic marketing approaches, to name only a few areas. What they have in common is their use of information technology to springboard ahead of their...
COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores here is seeking to reduce false alarms while maintaining its fight against shoplifters with the installation of radio frequency electronic article surveillance tags in 36 stores...
Kiosks are fast becoming a major force in supermarkets. But retailers insist the units need to provide more functions -- beyond handing out electronic discounts and recipes -- to move higher up on store-level wish...