Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

AUSTIN, Texas ¿ Natural and organic food retailer Whole Foods Market plans to implement the Retek Data Warehouse(RDW) from Minneapolis-based Retek, Inc. as a tool for operational reporting and category management across its 162 locations in North America.

El PASO, Texas - Big 8 Food Stores is participating in a one-year pilot that will test the use of new smart cards on IBM point-of-sale systems to conduct electronic benefits transactions for participants in the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program.

PITTSBURGH - Giant Eagle customer and Fresh Express salad enthusiast Janet Devinney was selected as the lucky winner of a 2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser convertible in a Cruise Through Summer promotion that proved to be an ideal way to drive awareness and trial purchases of new Fresh Express fresh fruit products.

STOCKTON, Calif. - Wal-Mart opens its first supercenter in Northern California at 8 a.m. today. The store, on East Hammer Lane here, features more than 100,000 products, including general merchandise and a full line of groceries.

CHICAGO - Wild Oats Markets, Inc., a national natural and organic foods retailer, and Peapod, Ahold USA's Internet grocer, are now offering more than 200 Wild Oats branded to Chicago-area shoppers on the Peapod online grocery site.

Using a suite of hosted management tools, Pro & Sons Ranch Markets found integrating POS systems as easy as flipping a switch.

QUINCY, Ill. - Rich Niemann Sr., c.e.o. of Niemann Foods, Inc. here, has received the annual Varsity I award from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for his company's efforts in raising more than $1.1. million over the past decade through sales of vendor product at Niemann Foods' County Market stores.

Two tales about doing retail right, by differentiating.