SAN FRANCISCO -- Supervalu's chief executive officer is urging retailers to engage in greater collaboration with each other and their trading partners to compete against super-efficient supply chain leaders such as...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hannaford Bros. began testing various combinations of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and readers with suppliers at its Winthrop, Maine, GM/HBC distribution center in mid-February...
WASHINGTON -- Food retailers that offer their employees opportunities to take online courses during non-working hours without compensation could be running afoul of a decades-old Department of Labor regulation, SN has...
The generation of kids that came of age since the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of video games is arguably the most tech-savvy in history. Yet, those tech-based distractions may have led them into a...
WASHINGTON -- Ahold is urging operating companies worldwide to adopt the new Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), the standards-based data sync platform launched last fall.Thus far, Giant-Carlisle, Pa., Albert...
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Ahold USA here has completed 75% of the conversion to a new data warehouse platform for customer data intended to deliver more targeted offers to shoppers of its four retail divisions, said Al...
"Independents have suffered technological disadvantage against national chains for far too long. Independents play a vital role in the retail food industry, as well as our economy, and have an inalienable right to...
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- PSK Supermarkets here is pioneering a system in its 13 Foodtown stores that automatically pages a customer-service manager to provide personalized service to top shoppers at the checkout.The...
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Based on positive customer response to a four-store pilot, Piggly Wiggly Carolina here will roll out a biometric point-of-sale payment system to the rest of its 83 company stores by May.The system...