MONTREAL — Metro Inc. here, in partnership with Dunnhumby Canada, is collecting a range of loyalty and digital data that is employed to “personalize every interaction we can with customers,” said Marc Giroux, chie...
PHILADELPHIA — Hunger relief organization Philabundance here has retained retail design consultancy CBX to design a prototype for Fare & Square, a not-for-profit grocery store slated to open this summer in Chester...
WAKEFIELD, Mass. — The NFC Forum, a nonprofit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, has announced the creation of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that will bring t...
SAN FRANCISCO — The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), a division of the National Retail Federation, will launch a formal work team for the development of a technical standard for charitable givin...
“We needed to put a plan in place to address the obsolescence and to enable the infrastructure to grow. And that’s what we went about doing.”
— Nirup Krishnamurthy, CIO, A&P
ITASCA, Ill. — Jewel-Osco will celebrate Black History Month this February with the company’s 14th annual “A Taste of Black History” program, which honors the contributions and achievements of the retailer’s Afric...
NEW YORK — Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif., has improved the speed and accuracy of its till reconciliation process across its roughly 1,700 stores via the installation of technology, said Steve Rempel, the retailer’s...
NEW YORK — Four food retailers made Fortune magazine’s latest list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” — something they have made a habit of doing.
The four include Wegmans Food Markets (ranked 5th), Nugge...