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Natural and organic foods retailer Sprouts Farmers Market has deployed a space optimization solution to create customized planograms, helping improve inventory management, drive sales and profits, and increase customer satisfaction.
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Redner’s Markets, a regional chain of warehouse-style and quick-stop grocery stores located in the northeastern United States, has implemented Tripwire Enterprise to help meet its Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) goals, the Reading, Pa.-based company reported. Redner’s is now fully automated with file integrity monitoring and automatic configuration assessments across all PCI-related networks.
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The Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) has rolled out a consumer contest, “Your Healthy Life and You,” with the aim of rewarding original and creative families for their fruit and veggie success stories.
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A&P and digital incentive and information management company Zavers have joined forces to give shoppers what the companies call “an unprecedented level of simplicity, savings and convenience in mobile couponing,” starting this month at participating A&P stores.
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Multi-format retailer Giant Eagle is celebrating its first-ever Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for its GetGo convenience store and fuel station located at 140 Towne Center Drive in Wexford, Pa.
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South African retailer Friendly Stores plans to deploy centralized hosted signage solutions at its supermarket and convenience store operations.
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Target yesterday launched a scannable mobile coupon program that allows users to receive exclusive offers directly on their mobile phones and redeem them by scanning a bar code on the phone at checkout.
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Bi-Lo has teamed up with Austin, Texas-based analytic services firm Spire to enhance its ability to leverage shopper card data and generate actionable insights across the organization.
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Sunbury, Pa.-based regional independent Weis Markets’ Hanover, Pa., store has earned silver certification from the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, a voluntary Environmental Protection Agency alliance with food retailers to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change.
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C.H. Robinson Worldwide, one of the largest global logistics and transportation providers, has earned a spot on Fortune’s 2010 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list, and additionally ranked first in the “Trucking, Transportation and Logistics” category.
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SmartNow, a provider of health-and-wellness information to the health care industry, corporations and consumers, last week launched a comprehensive nutritional grocery guide for the iPhone with more than 100,000 unique, branded products categorized.
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Join Progressive Grocer on Thursday, March 18 at 2 p.m. EST for a Web seminar, ‘Strategic Assortment: Developing a Winning Item Optimization Strategy.”
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The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA), a division of the National Retail Federation (NRF).
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YOU Technology, a Delray Beach, Fla.-based provider of personalized marketing solutions, has introduced a service suite that lets brand and retail marketers customize offers on a one-to-one basis across digital media, including Web, mobile, in-store and direct mail.
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Grocery Shopping Network (GSN) has opened two new offices, on the East and West Coasts, for increased market coverage in both the New York and Los Angeles markets.
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Online-only grocer FreshDirect yesterday launched its new iPhone application, which delivers virtually all of the functionality of FreshDirect.com and allows customers to create new orders as well as modify orders, according to the Long Island City, N. Y.-based grocer.
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Puerto Rican grocery chain SuperMax plans to retrofit all of the lighting systems in its San Juan store with energy-efficient lighting solutions.
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Hy-Vee, Inc. will begin construction on a 64,000-square-foot replacement store this spring in Fairfield, Iowa, marking the company’s second store built in accordance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification standards.
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Delhaize Belgium plans to build an integrated supply chain enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that will enable the retailer to standardize its supply chain transactions, and boost efficiency and productivity.
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Ahold USA divisions Giant-Landover and Stop & Shop have launched www.smallvictories.com, an online community for moms. Celebrating the little wins that make a difference in moms’ everyday lives, the site will be updated daily with such new content as recipes, money-saving advice and survival tips from fellow moms.
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Three years ago, I moderated a webcast about a little-known technology that was designed to prevent bottom-of-the-basket (BOB) theft by scanning items at the bottom of a consumer’s shopping cart.
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Cooking was never my thing. During high school and college, I led an active — perhaps too active — social life, and rarely made it home until dinner was ready for the table.
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Micro-blogging platform Twitter is now logging 50 million tweets a day — not bad when you consider the number was just 5,000 in 2007.
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Grocers operating in areas prone to sudden, severe weather can now get real-time local severe weather warnings and observations delivered to their phone or computer via Twitter using a solution developed by Swasalert.com.
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Earlier this month, Progressive Grocer and the National Grocers Association (NGA) launched the Independent Grocer Network, a social network for independent grocers and their wholesaler suppliers, and I am proud to say that membership activity on the site has far exceeded our expectations.
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 An Egg-citing Development
Instead of spending time with messy coloring kits this Easter, consumers may wish to try some naturally blue eggs, courtesy of Monroe, N.H.-based Pete & Gerry’s Eggs — and if they do, there’s a good chance they’ll get hooked on the unique variety.
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Kimberly-Clark Corp. (K-C) has met the need for a practical alternative to traditional cloth hand towels in home bathrooms with Kleenex Hand Towels, an innovative system delivering one clean, fresh, dry towel every time consumers wash their hands.
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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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