Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Leading natural and specialty foods marketer and distributor Tree of Life Inc. has announced a strategic realignment designed to keep pace with increases in demand for its products and unprecedented consolidation among its retail customers.

PLEASONTON, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho - Safeway and Albertsons confirmed that they will also label their farmed salmon and trout to indicate color has been added.

WOBURN, Mass. -- H-E-B Grocery Co., one of the nation's largest independently owned food retailers, has implemented Retail Expert, Inc.'s NaviStor, a new loss prevention software application used to manage and improve employee operational performance at HEB.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Ruddick Corporation, the parent company of the Harris Teeter supermarket chain, on Thursday reported an increase in sales during its second fiscal quarter and year-to-date period, thanks in part to new store openings and improved comparable store sales.

INDIANAPOLIS - Charter One Financial entered into an agreement this week with Marsh Supermarkets to open 18 banking center in Marsh stores in greater Indianapolis and Lafayette, Ind. The new bank branches are expected to open in the third and fourth quarters.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A late Easter contributed to declining third quarter sales and profits at Winn-Dixie Stores here, the company said yesterday.

CHICAGO & QUINCY, Mass. - Leading Internet grocer Peapod Inc. and New England grocer Stop & Shop today announced the expansion of their online service to the Hartford, Conn., metropolitan area.

DALLAS - 7-Eleven, Inc., the nation's largest c-store chain, today reported that its first quarter core earnings, which exclude non-operating items, grew to $4.6 million or $0.04 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, 2003, versus $2.4 million or $0.02 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2002.