Whole Foods Market and Infor, a provider of business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, have partnered to build a new, cloud-based retail management solution allowing Whole Foods to operate faster and more efficiently while enhancing the customer experience. The new retail management suite, Infor Cloudsuite Retail, also will be made available to […]
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Cumberland Farms Awards Free Gas Prize To Mark SmartPay Milestone, And More…
Convenience Store News In Brief… Cumberland Farms is giving away one year of free gas to loyal customer Kenneth Hobart of Wilmington, Massachusetts. Hobart recently was fueling up his tank at the Cumberland Farms store in Wilmington when the brand hit a major milestone of $1 billion of gas purchased through its SmartPay Check-Link program […]
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New York Orders Four Papa John’s Franchisees To Pay Back Wages, And More…
Food Service News In Brief… New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the U.S. Department of Labor have announced four settlements totaling nearly $500,000 with three current Papa John’s Pizza franchisees and one former franchisee, who together operated a total of nine restaurants in Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn. The franchisees investigated by the Attorney […]
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Target Adds PINs To Store-Issued Credit Cards, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… Target has added another layer of security to its store-issued credit cards. The retailer has become the first big credit card issuer to send customers new cards with a computer chip and PINs. In 2013, Target experienced a major security breach that compromised customer data. The store has started sending […]
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Companies Working To Capture Shopping Habits Through Smartphone App
Boston-based Mobee, involved with data and insights for brands, retail and hedge funds, has formed a strategic alliance with Nielsen to develop the “Nielsen Product Diary.” Created in the form of an easy-to-use mobile product diary, this application captures consumer habits and product usage behaviors in real time. With this tool, the ability to report […]
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With Merger, NECSA Renames Itself To Include Oil Marketers Group
The Independent Oil Marketers of New England (IOMA) and the New England Convenience Store Association (NECSA) will merge Nov 1. to form a new organization: the New England Convenience Store & Energy Marketers Association, or NECSEMA. According to NECSA Executive Director Steve Ryan, “With particular thanks to NECSA President Leo Vercollone and IOMA Chairman Jon […]
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Research Finds Taste Shift And Cost Result In Restaurant Beverage Order Decline
Although consumers order a beverage 70 percent of the time when visiting restaurants and other food service outlets, beverage orders have declined 4 percent, or two billion servings, over a five-year period. Consumers changing tastes and cost consciousness are behind declines, finds a new NPD food service market research report. There are more growing beverages at […]
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JOH Acquires H&H Specialty Food Associates
JOH, Billerica, Massachusetts, has acquired H&H Specialty Food Associates of Red Bank, New Jersey, a full-service specialty, ethnic and natural food broker. The addition of H&H will provide complimentary resources and broader support to JOH clients and customers in the specialty, ethnic and natural food categories in the metro New York/New Jersey and Mid-Atlantic markets, according […]