Month: August 2014

KSS Retail, from dunnhumby, today unveiled a major update to its industry-leading PriceStrat® price and promotion optimization solution for merchandising and category management teams. PriceStrat version 5.4 boasts new automation capabilities and advancements in efficiency and flexibility, enabling omnichannel retailers to conduct faster “what-if” planning, and more effectively use pricing and promotions as a competitive advantage in the race to win shopper loyalty. …

Last Wednesday, Jeff and Tom Heinen introduced Chicago-area shoppers to their 20th Heinen's Fine Foods store, a redesigned Dominick's Finer Foods in the largely residential Village of Bannockburn, Illinois. …

H-E-B's Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best contest has made one thing very clear: Texans love sweet and spice. Blend those flavors, and they are irresistible. The combination caught judges' taste buds as they whittled nearly 600 submissions from across the Lone Star State to 25 exceptional finalists. …

Walmart Canada is throwing half a billion dollars at expanding hundreds of locations into “supercentres” this year that offer a full complement of groceries on top of the thousands of products it already sells. …

For years, the grocery options were slim in the neighborhoods between the District’s Walter E. Washington Convention Center and Union Station. There was a decades-old Giant Food on O Street NW that was demolished in 2011, and there were a handful of corner stores specializing mostly in alcohol, cigarettes, candy and chips. …