Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

SALISBURY, N.C. - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials, vendor partners, and civic and energy leaders recently joined Bottom Dollar Food in Frederick, Md., to celebrate the chain's commitment to conserving energy.

SALISBURY, N.C. - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials, vendor partners, and civic and energy leaders recently joined Bottom Dollar Food in Frederick, Md., to celebrate the chain's commitment to conserving energy.

SALISBURY, N.C. - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials, vendor partners, and civic and energy leaders recently joined Bottom Dollar Food in Frederick, Md., to celebrate the chain's commitment to conserving energy.

SEATTLE - Thriftway Supermarket here yesterday became the first retailer to install Pay by Touch's biometric payment system that is fully-integrated into IBM's SurePOS ACE point-of-sale system across 13 checkout lanes in one of its 14 stores.

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. - Automated DVD vending kiosk provider redbox yesterday inked deals to install its units in stores operated by Albertsons LLC, Chevy Chase, Hannaford Supermarkets, Martin's, and Strack N Van Til.

WASHINGTON -- Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association handed out Excellence in Data Synchronization Awards at the first Data Synchronization Summit 2006, which was held in Las Vegas earlier this month. The summit, which attracted almost 270 attendees, marked the first time that the trade groups -- together with GS1 US subsidiary 1SYNC, a data pool offering a range of data synchronization solutions -- sponsored an industry-wide event on the topic.

WASHINGTON -- Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association handed out Excellence in Data Synchronization Awards at the first Data Synchronization Summit 2006, which was held in Las Vegas earlier this month. The summit, which attracted almost 270 attendees, marked the first time that the trade groups -- together with GS1 US subsidiary 1SYNC, a data pool offering a range of data synchronization solutions -- sponsored an industry-wide event on the topic.

SPRINGFIELD, Ark. -- Three Tyson Foods Inc. TV commercials developed by the vendor's African American marketing agency, E. Morris Communications, this week earned a Multicultural Excellence Award from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). The company won the African American/Multicultural Campaign category.