LEEDS, West Yorkshire, U.K. - Wal-Mart-owned Asda said today it plans to invest UK 2.4 million ($3.7 million) rolling out cutting-edge 'Techno-trollies.'
WOBURN, Mass. - Big Y Foods Inc. has installed Retail Expert Inc.'s NaviStor loss prevention software to monitor the performance of cashiers in its 47 stores.
FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. - A recently released retail theft survey found that out of a sample of 30 U.S. retail companies, more than $5 billion was lost to shoplifting and employee theft in 2001, with only 3.45 percent of those losses resulting in a recovery.
HERNDON, Va. - Biometric identification provider BioPay, LLC has signed a multi-store agreement with Brownsville, Texas-based Lopez Supermarkets that will bring biometric technology to its stores.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Winn-Dixie Stores has completed a pilot of Trax Software & Consulting Inc.'s ShrinkTrax DM2 software with 153 stores and signed a formal agreement to roll out the solution in more than 1,000 stores nationwide.
NEW YORK - Kmart Corp. is now investigating the way the company was managed under former chief executive Charles Conaway, and has suspended severance payments to several former executives, The Associated Press reports.
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