Digital Commerce

MIAMI - Farm Stores Grocery Inc. recently announced the launch of an aggressive growth plan for its 45-year-old "Farm Stores Drive-Thru" brand.

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - UCCnet announced today that Wegmans Food Markets and the Nestle Purina PetCare Company (formerly Ralston Purina Company) are now using UCCnet services for communicating product information for all Purina product categories carried by Wegmans.

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Internet retailer drugstore.com said today that net sales rose to an all-time high of $43.5 million in the fourth quarter.

WASHINGTON - Identity theft was the most common type of U.S. consumer fraud complaint in 2001, according to federal statistics released today, Reuters reports.

SEATTLE - Amazon.com posted its first net profit ever in the fourth quarter, beating its own forecasts and Wall Street's expectations, The Associated Press reports.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Safeway Inc. announced on Monday the formal launch of Safeway.com, the company's Internet grocery shopping and home delivery service, to consumers living in the Portland-metro and Vancouver, Wash. communities.

TORONTO, Ontario - Systech Retail Systems Inc., a provider of technology solutions for retail, announced that it has received orders from Food Lion, LLC, for over 4,000 RTI SK-7510 Programmable ScreenKey Systems for delivery in 2002.

LONDON - U.K. supermarket chain Asda plans to begin fulfilling its Internet orders through its existing stores, rather than by operating separate warehouses for its online shoppers, according to The Independent newspaper.