Business Intelligence (BI)

:The Ahold USA division will deploy three new solutions at 61 fuel locations, and renew its license for in-store price and promotion optimization.

Lee E. French and Michael Howard have both been with the regional grocer since the 1970s.

Giant Food Stores, LLC said it has hired Lawrence Knorr as its new director of information systems, to supervise the information systems teams that support marketing and merchandising, supply chain, and retail ISP  for the Ahold USA-owned banner.

Even the well-off are responding to price-sensitive strategies and messages, noted data provider MRI.

Winn-Dixie now run Linux applications and databases with current apps such as PeopleSoft, Retalix, and Tomax.

The portal should help streamline the retail industry's green efforts, said the trade group RILA, a partner in the project.

The grocer had installed self-checkout units in six stores this past May.

"Apples for the Students" program can also be done concurrently with Save Mart's new "S.H.A.R.E.S." program.