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Sanofi-aventis U.S. yesterday launched GoMeals, a new iPhone application, or app, designed to help people living with diabetes make healthy food choices.
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GoodGuide, a San Francisco-based mobile application development vendor, has launched a new iPhone iPhone application designed to scan barcodes and provide health, environment and social responsibility ratings of products and companies.
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Regional independent grocer Strack and Van Til, a Highland, Ind.-based grocery retailer with more than a dozen stores spanning Illinois and Indiana, plans to install new software in an effort to capture, manage, analyze and share critical data with its partners, bringing greater visibility throughout the supply chain.
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Giant Eagle has launched a new online GifterGo service that enables customers to purchase gift vouchers conveniently from their PCs for a wide variety of local and community merchants.
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The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. — which this month launched an online paperless and completely digital coupon service at its A&P, SuperFresh, Waldbaum’s, and The Food Emporium banners — has also rolled out the program at its Pathmark stores as an easy and eco-friendly way for shoppers to save more.
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ShopRite and MyWebGrocer have rolled out a groundbreaking Apple iPhone and iTouch application, ShopRite Weekly Specials.
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New vendor partnerships are extending the reach of price and promotion optimization software.
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Altierre Corp., a provider of ultra-low-power wireless solutions for retailers, this week launched its Out-of-Stock Sensor Solution, developed to alert retailers when it’s time to restock inventory on shelves.
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Community-based independent LaBonne’s Markets has introduced a new loyalty platform designed to engage shopper segments and reward top shoppers.
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Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. has introduced its new Rewards Card, and the Fuelperks! benefit that goes along with it, to 11 more stores, enabling customers at Copps and Pick ’n Save stores in nine more cities to save money on gas for every $50 they spend grocery shopping.
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Whole Foods Market, Coca-Cola, Ford, McDonald’s, Microsoft and SunTrust have enrolled in the CoTweet Enterprise Innovators Program, a new initiative that includes exclusive Enterprise Edition product features and services to help companies manage their brands on Twitter.
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U.K. retailer Morrisons plans to install a new payment-processing system for all of the card payment processing in its stores and fuel stations, which encompass more than 380 sites.
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A look at the latest product and promotional news grocers can use to boost profits around the perimeter.
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Hy-Vee’s newest 90,000-square-foot store that opened recently on the east side of Madison, Wis., was wheeling and dealing during its grand opening festivities, which featured an 1,000-pound sculpture of the University of Wisconsin’s mascot, Bucky Badger.
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Harold Lloyd, president, of H. Lloyd & Associates, Inc; Art Turock, president of Art Turock & Associates; and Dr. Richard George, professor of food marketing at Saint Joseph’s University will present during the National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) Super Breakfast Sessions at the 2010 N.G.A. Annual Convention and Supermarket Synergy Showcase (S3), to be held Feb. 9 to Feb. 12, 2010, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Retail technology solutions provider Retalix yesterday launched a new inbound freight management system for both retailers and wholesale distributors.
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Shopper, an iPhone Shopping Assistant from New York-based ReachEverywhere, now offers weekly flyers from more than 100 retailers, including Target, Best Buy, Kmart, Sears, Meijer, Walgreens, Lowes and Home Depot, enabling users to find deals on products without having to flip through printed circulars.
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Two of Roundy’s Pick ’n Save locations in McFarland and DeForest, Wis., are among the first grocery stores in the state to achieve “Green Grocer” certification from the Wisconsin Grocers Association (WGA), which is spearheading a pilot program to help grocery stores in achieve energy savings, sustainability and environmental standards.
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D’Agostino Supermarkets plans to install new coupon-printing kiosks at its 18 supermarkets in New York City and its suburbs.
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Internet grocer FreshDirect is now selling branded gift cards on its Web site, www.freshdirect.com.
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Walmart, Kroger, Target, Safeway, Publix and Wegmans were cited as consistent top performers in the eyes of their trading partners since 1997, according to results of Cannondale Associates’ annual PoweRanking Study.
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iPhone Shopping List App Shopper has added a new function to make it easier for time-pressed families to accomplish their shopping chores by allowing them to create a digital version of the refrigerator list on smart phones that can be synchronized in real time with each member of the family.
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With produce traceability factoring as a front and center issue among grocery trading partners, the Kroger Co.’s new proprietary line of fresh salads includes new technology on the packaging that enables customers to learn where the produce was grown as part of grocery chain’s “Quality You Can Trace” program.
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Three retailer-owned wholesalers plan to outsource their Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solutions to improve business practices and focus their internal IT resources on other areas to deliver added to their retailer-owners.
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Women’s Health, a New York-based women’s lifestyle publication published by Rodale Inc., launched a new application for the iPhone and iTouch it developed to help consumers achieve their weight-loss goals.
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 Fresh Trio Offers Savings
Mann Packing is offering retailers three new budget-friendly items to capitalize on fresh seasonal produce sales.
 Brew Up Some Godiva
Break time can be a decadent experience with the new collection of specialty coffees from Godiva Chocolatier, Inc.
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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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