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Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos, a food retailer based in Athens, Greece, and part of the Brussels, Belgium-based Delhaize Group, has experienced a 16 percent year-on-year increase in the number of CHEP pallets it handles — and a resulting boost to its supply chain efficiencies — as the number of its suppliers joining the pallet network continues to grow.
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Convenience store chain Wawa will discuss SKU rationalization in an upcoming free Webcast to be hosted by Progressive Grocer sister brand Convenience Store News (CSN) Wednesday, July 14 at 2 p.m. EDT.
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Internet grocer Peapod has new offerings to add to its Chicago’s Best aisle, which features a group of leading restaurant brand-name products not available in typical supermarkets.
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Mygofer.com, Kmart’s online delivery service, will start delivering groceries, prescriptions, electronics and other products around the Chicago area, beginning July 4.
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. vice chairman Eduardo Castro-Wright has been appointed president and CEO of Global.com and Global Sourcing, and Bill Simon has been promoted to president and CEO of Walmart U.S.
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Regional independent Price Chopper Supermarkets yesterday promoted Daniela Allen to the position of VP of enterprise business systems, in which capacity she reports directly to Greg Zeh, VP of information systems and CIO.
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Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) has added new pages and features to its Fruits & Veggies-More Matters consumer web site, www.FruitsandVeggiesMoreMatters.org.
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BridgeLux, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, last week introduced its award-winning RS LED Array products in a neutral white-color temperature (4100K).
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Coop Marked Jondal, part of Coop Norge (the Norwegian Coop) — Norway’s third largest retailer —has deployed electronic shelf labels at its Jondal store to automate price updates and engage in competitive pricing strategies.
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Dairy giant Dean Foods has unveiled a delivery vehicle equipped with a new prototype truck refrigeration system — an advanced, cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable system that significantly reduces the emissions associated with traditional diesel-powered transport refrigeration.
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General merchandise retailer Target Corp. plans to deploy a new shopper insights solution to help make more localized merchandising and marketing decisions that will improve the relevance and value of offerings for shoppers.
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Publix this week was recognized for the sixth consecutive year as one of Computerworld magazine’s top workplaces for information technology (IT) professionals, rising 20 spots to No. 60 on this year’s list, and still the only supermarket chain to be so recognized.
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Fresh Madison Market has unveiled an innovative online coupon gallery on its new Web site, through a partnership with the Nash Finch Co. and Coupons.com, Inc.
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Regional independent Giant Eagle has joined Cellfire’s electronic grocery coupon program, which enables Cellfire coupons to be available and redeemable at more than 200 locations that include Giant Eagle, Giant Eagle Market District, Giant Eagle Express, and GetGo from Giant Eagle.
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The National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) has teamed up with Online Training Technologies (OTT) to develop new retailer and wholesaler training programs for the association’s members.
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Community-based independent Green Hills’ Center for Advanced Retail Technology (CART) — a live in-store technology lab — last week launched CARTconnect, a host of research capabilities for fast-moving consumer goods brands and shopper marketing agencies.
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Ten years ago, a talented team of people introduced a cool, affordable office furniture business — called Izzydesign — at the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago.
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Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has bowed an updated Web site. Boasting a new look and wider screen, the revamped www.fmi.org aims make it easier for visitors to navigate the site and track down information.
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CPG companies are reporting record supply chain performance, according to a recent GMA logistics benchmark study.
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Produce distributor Botsford & Goodfellow has selected YottaMark, Inc.’s HarvestMark solution for its watermelon traceability initiative.
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With consumer coupon use on the upswing, the incidence of counterfeit coupons is unfortunately increasing as well.
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Paul Singer, former CIO and SVP for Supervalu and former CIO and SVP for Target Corp., passed away peacefully at his home in Eden Prairie, Minn., June 11 following a 19-month battle with brain cancer.
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Danny Wegman, CEO of Wegmans Food Markets and Timothy P. Smucker, chairman of the board and Co-CEO of The J.M. Smucker Co. won the 2010 Roger Milliken Lifetime Achievement Awards last week at the VICS/U Connect Annual Conference at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, Texas.
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Regional retailer-owned grocery cooperative Unified Grocers has tapped Camden, N.J.-based Agilence as the preferred point-of-sale (POS) video auditing solution for the grocers it services.
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Hannaford Supermarkets has unveiled a new Web site at www.hannaford.com, enabling visitors to create shopping lists with prices for individual items, as well as giving the Delhaize Group banner a way to inform customers in case a product they’ve bought is recalled.
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 The Origins of Hummus
Made by the only manufacturer of all-natural hummus available nationwide, Tribe Origins is a line of smooth and creamy-style hummus.
 Greetings That Taste Good
This latest greeting card line from Cleveland, Ohio-based American Greetings Corp. really takes the cake — and some other yummy items.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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