IT Integration

LONDON, United Kingdom -- As if it wasn't enough that Google just entered the productivity software business, Tesco is also going head on with Microsoft with its launch this week of store-branded computer software featuring word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database functionality - all compatible with related Microsoft products.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer is re-launching its photo Web site to offer free storage, faster upload speeds, more creative products, and a much improved user interface for ordering both prints and an expanded creative product line.

LONDON, United Kingdom -- As if it wasn't enough that Google just entered the productivity software business, Tesco is also going head on with Microsoft with its launch this week of store-branded computer software featuring word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database functionality - all compatible with related Microsoft products.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper Supermarkets here has become the first independently owned retailer to sign on to sell Wild Oats branded natural and organic products. The grocer will carry "hundreds" of the super natural chain's items at all 115 of its stores in six Northeastern states.

LONDON, United Kingdom -- As if it wasn't enough that Google just entered the productivity software business, Tesco is also going head on with Microsoft with its launch this week of store-branded computer software featuring word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database functionality - all compatible with related Microsoft products.

NEW YORK -- In response to the greater vulnerability to fraud among retailers and others in the current regulatory and political climate, PricewaterhouseCoopers here has issued "A Deeper Dive: Protecting Retail & Consumer Companies Against Fraud and Misconduct at the Business Process Level," a white paper offering a five-step program to help avoid or lessen the impact of significant fraud.

Drug chain Walgreens shows that RFID can be used economically in the store, today.

SALINAS, Calif. -- On the heels of six new specimens testing positive for the strain of E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria responsible for the recent deadly fresh spinach outbreak, an ad hoc group of produce buyers is calling on three industry associations to work together quickly to develop new, enforceable food safety standards.