Equipment & Design

The recent recession appears to have resulted in a more thrifty consumer, according to a new report by market research company The NPD Group that found many respondents of the opinion that their financial situations wouldn’t improve or would even worsen over the next year.

FreshDirect At The Office, the office food and beverage delivery service division of the online grocer FreshDirect, is now delivering to business customers in the New York metropolitan area’s Westchester and Fairfield counties.

Nestlé Pure Life has embarked on a new four-year partnership with Keep America Beautiful (KAB), as well as national sponsorship of the “2010 Great American Cleanup

Food Lion yesterday introduced an advertising campaign emphasizing the fact that the banner has slashed prices on thousands of items its customers purchase most frequently.

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.

As of this week, Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc. has installed its bottom-of-the-basket (BOB) loss prevention solution LaneHawk in 1,000 stores, making the vendor’s total deployed base almost 10,000 checkout lanes.