Retail & FoodService

Applied Data Corporation (ADC), a leading provider of fresh item management (FIM), recipe management and scales management software to the grocery retail and food service industries, announces that Brookshire Grocery Company, a 150+ store chain based in Tyler, Texas, has selected and implemented NutriGen, ADC’s recipe management software. …

Valu Land is a new, small-format store Michigan grocer that Spartan Stores is piloting, which may offer some competition to Aldi’s and Save-A-Lot grocery stores. …

GS1 US and GS1 Germany, two of the largest member organizations of the GS1 System, announced they have signed a letter of intent to combine their 1SYNC (GS1 US) and SA2 Worldsync (GS1 Germany) subsidiaries. GS1 US and GS1 Germany plan to complete the transaction in the third quarter of 2012. …

The Kroger Co. associates working at Smith’s Food and Drug and Food 4 Less in Las Vegas, Nevada have ratified a new labor agreement with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 711. …

After vowing to open more than 1,000 stores selling fresh fruit and vegetables in underserved urban neighborhoods, or “food deserts,” grocers have opened a fraction of them, putting in jeopardy Michelle Obama’s effort to improve food choices for low-income Americans. …