IT Integration

STEVENS POINT, Wis. - Retail marketing execution organization The National Association for Retail Marketing Services (NARMS) has selected Computer Resource Center, LLC (CRC), one of its associate member companies, as the preferred provider for the NARMS Web-Based Reporting System for North American small and mid-size member companies.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Safeway subsidiary Blackhawk Network, a card-based financial solutions provider, yesterday signed an agreement with credit card company Visa to introduce Visa ReadyLink, Visa's Prepaid Load Network, to Blackhawk Network's alliance partner stores.

COTTONWOOD, Calif. -- Community-based 21-store chain North State Grocery, which operates under the Holiday Quality Foods and Sav-Mor Foods banners, yesterday joined the growing number of independent operators that are deploying Web-based price optimization systems

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Circle K, a convenience store chain owned by Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., said it plans to license price and promotion optimization management software to optimize its store merchandising.

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Circle K, a convenience store chain owned by Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., said it plans to license price and promotion optimization management software to optimize its store merchandising.

SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- Six Vermont supermarkets owned by Hannaford Bros. Co. here have been awarded the EnergyStar label by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for "demonstrating superior energy performance," according to published reports.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. based here negotiated with lenders to change its existing senior secured credit facility. In doing so, the distributor and retailer will pay a related one-time fee of about $550,000.

CHICAGO -- Direct standardized global data synchronization is storming the French market via the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), thanks to a collaboration between GS1 France and 1SYNC.