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Two major supermarket chains could begin rolling out electronic shelf-labeling systems -- one chain to 50 stores and another to 30 stores -- within the next year, SN has learned.H-E-B Grocery Co., San Antonio, will install the shelf-labeling...
TROY, Mich. -- Kmart Corp. here is preparing to embark on a substantially revised store-modernization program, which includes the continued rollout of the the Super Kmart Center grocery format but with a reduced number of openings.Kmart, the...
Accepting credit and debit cards may have its costs, but supermarket executives say electronic payments are a valuable customer service they'd be remiss not to offer."If you put a price next to it, maybe you wouldn't decide to take credit cards,"...
DUBLIN, Calif. -- There's a new sense of urgency regarding supermarket personnel practices.A series of multimillion-dollar settlements by retailers operating in northern California -- stemming from charges of sex discrimination against female...
CLIFTON, N.J. -- The New Jersey Packaging Executives Club has presented its 1993 Package of the Year award to Elizabeth Arden for its Sunflowers die-cut sleeve, reverse-tuck carton combination with precisely aligned reversed flower images. Rough...
DUBLIN, Calif. -- Lucky Stores here has become the most recent focus in a state-led probe of supermarket meat-handling practices that began early last year.Last month, investigators from the state attorney general's office served a search warrant...
CORUM, N.Y. -- At the grand opening of its newest unit here, retailer Wise Buys constructed the world's largest cereal display ever, using 100,800 10-ounce boxes, or 4,200 cases, of General Mills Cheerios.The display was 80 feet long, 20 feet high...
HOUSTON -- Coca-Cola Foods is leveraging a "megabranding" strategy with extensive in-store marketing to gain aisle space for its Minute Maid Naturals line of shelf-stable juices.The new line of six juice flavors, packaged in 46-ounce and 64-ounce...
Supermarket deli executives have resolved to bring convenience, variety and quality to the next level for 1994 -- and to make money doing it. There will be more emphasis on complete meals and on offering a larger selection of prepared entrees...