Retail - Supermarkets & Grocery Stores News
Smart carts coming to Food Lion
November 18, 2008
Progressive Grocer: Food Lion banner Bloom plans to deploy interactive touchscreen computer consoles on the shopping carts at its Fort Mill, N.C. store to…
read nowMore shoppers choosing private-label products
November 18, 2008
Progressive Grocer: Private-label products are increasingly encroaching on name brands' turf, as a majority of U.S. consumers are viewing store-brand items…
read nowGrocers cash in as Americans eat cheap
November 12, 2008
Forbes: Food costs have fallen in recent months, but the stalling economy has kept price the top concern for consumers. For many grocery stores, that's been a…
read nowKraft reinventing the cheese aisle
November 5, 2008
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Display Boys, a full-service, premium retail display specialist, is partnering with Kraft Foods to reinvent the cheese aisle. The…
read nowNFC mobile phone payments come to Latin America
November 4, 2008
PARIS — Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech announced that its provisioning software for Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payments is being used in the first…
read nowNational Grocers Association endorses Pan-Oston tech
November 2, 2008
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Pan-Oston, a designer, developer and manufacturer of retail checkout products, including lanes, counters and self-checkout solutions, as…
read nowWal-Mart unveils new 'understated' store design
October 30, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Style at a Wal-Mart used to mean a clean cut on the side of a box so customers could get their products right from the case.
read nowBig grocery chains testing smaller stores
October 29, 2008
MSNBC/AP: PORTLAND, Ore. — Grocery stores, like consumers' food budgets, are shrinking. This month Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opened four pilot Marketplace stores in…
read nowHGTV content coming to in-store screens
October 26, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Thomson's Premier Retail Networks Inc. (PRN) and HGTV announced an agreement to present customized content produced by HGTV for display on…
read nowAustralia's largest supermarket chain testing RFID
October 21, 2008
RFID Journal: Woolworths Ltd., which operates Australia's largest supermarket chain, has completed two trials of radio frequency identification. One trial…
read nowRedbox sues Universal Studios
October 16, 2008
Home Media: Redbox has filed a federal suit against Universal Studios Home Entertainment that alleges Universal's new revenue-sharing terms for DVD-vending…
read nowBillpay tech coming to checkout lanes
October 16, 2008
BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Fiserv Inc., a leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, announced it has partnered with PayScan…
read nowNCR to resell Experticity assisted selling solution
October 14, 2008
DAYTON, Ohio — NCR Corp. announced that it has signed a global reseller agreement with Experticity, the pioneer of live on-screen expert sales and customer…
read nowNRF, Retail Customer Experience announce pavilion partnership
October 14, 2008
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — NetWorld Alliance, publisher of Retail Customer Experience magazine and RetailCustomerExperience.com, and the National Retail Federation…
read nowIBM publishes report on customer shopping preferences
October 9, 2008
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — IBM announced the findings of a survey of nearly 4,300 U.S. and U.K. consumers that revealed insights into consumer behaviors…
read nowRoche adds MyWebGrocer ad network, interactive circular
October 8, 2008
Progressive Grocer: Roche Bros. has become the first Buy4Now client to add MyWebGrocer's functionality into its online channel, less than a month after the…
read nowSurvey: Shoppers will flee an unclean store
October 7, 2008
DALLAS — A study conducted by M/A/R/C Research found that as many as 18 percent of shoppers would discontinue shopping at a particular store if they believe…
read nowIBM: multi-channel accounts for 20 percent of retail sales
October 5, 2008
Times Herald-Record: IBM announced a survey of nearly 4,300 U.S. and U.K. consumers that shows purchasing decisions are made across multiple retail channels…
read nowEK3, Atlantic Lottery launch digital merchandising campaign
October 1, 2008
LONDON, Ontario — EK3 Technologies Inc. has announced a new digital merchandising program with Atlantic Lottery Corp. The program, reportedly the first of its…
read nowTarget upgrades info delivery with KANA
October 1, 2008
MENLO PARK, Calif. — KANA Software Inc., provider of multichannel customer-service technology, has closed a seven-figure transaction with leading retailer…
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