PARIS -- More than 132,000 attendees on the lookout for innovations in food and beverage products, packaging and marketing gathered here last week for SIAL 2002. This edition of the biannual trade show hosted 5,200...
PARIS -- The European food industry is weighing the potential benefits of the Internet and so far concluding that business-to-business applications provide the brightest opportunity.That's the word from European...
WASHINGTON -- The great unknown of the year-2000 problem, and potentially its most troublesome aspect, is how consumers will behave as 1999 draws to a close. Most industry groups and government bodies believe the food...
NEW YORK -- Even though it has only been on-line for two months, www.inretail.com, a product-based, retailer-only Web site, already lists a wide variety of products from 15,000 to 20,000 manufacturers, including food...
CHICAGO -- Benefits from the use of computer-based training extend beyond cutting the time needed to prepare employees for work on the "front lines" of the supermarket. Fleming Cos. has also credited CBT with...
CHICAGO -- Retailers may be distributing frequent-shopper cards in record numbers, but some are expressing dissatisfaction with the overall performance of their customer-loyalty programs.Programs can establish some...
ALBANY, Calif. -- In what may become a model for bringing the benefits of scan-based trading to smaller chains and independents, Andronico's Market here will test an SBT program, scheduled to begin in July, with...
TRENTON, N.J. -- A data-processing error that credited the electronic benefits transfer accounts of 140,000 New Jersey food-stamp recipients 11 days early triggered an unexpected shopping spree at some of the state's...
WASHINGTON -- Hitching its wagon to the fast-rising star of electronic commerce, the National Retail Federation here has narrowed the scope of its Retail Information Systems Conference and renamed it NRF.com...
While ensuring that actual physical product is handled, sorted and transported as efficiently as possible will remain a crucial part of future distribution logistics, industry experts believe the biggest gains will...