SALT LAKE CITY -- Associated Food Stores here is analyzing the steps needed to bring its underground fuel-storage tanks into compliance with Environmental Protection Agency requirements. The distributor is weighing...
A growing number of retailers are adding natural light -- let in via increased use of skylights and high windows -- to their store environments. The aim is to create more of an open-air ambience and enhance the...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper Supermarkets here plans to go live after the first of the year with a computerized dispatch program that takes into account its multistop delivery pattern and its activity-based pay...
GRUNDY, Va. -- K-VA-T Food Stores here has reduced maintenance costs 15% to 20% this year by replacing individual service contracts for certain equipment, such as slicers and scales, with a fully insured asset...
MAUMEE, Ohio -- Seaway Food Town here will expand its home-shopping service when it tests on-line ordering via the Internet in Toledo, Ohio, in the first quarter of next year. The supermarket chain currently takes...
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- HomeGrocer.com here, a new Internet-based home-shopping and delivery company, will launch its service in early 1998.The company plans to offer almost all the products available in a typical...
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hy-Vee Food Stores here plans to upgrade to a new version of its warehouse management system in early 1998, which will allow it to improve yard and dock control and cross docking at its...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Use of an activity-based pay program at three distribution facilities has helped Fleming Cos. here reduce the time its drivers spend at a delivery site, while still maintaining customer-service levels...
Use of clipless coupons is on the upswing, creating new opportunities for retailers to motivate shoppers to come into a specific store for discounts on the products they want to purchase.Retailers such as A&P...
TOORONGA, Australia -- Coles Myer here will launch its first ever on-line home-shopping and grocery-delivery service in a trial site, most likely Melbourne or Sydney, Australia, in early 1998.Jon Wood, managing...