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Online Services Gain Produce Sales; Grocers Still Lead

Kearney (formerly known as eBreviate)

Most purchases are still being made at brick-and-mortar retailers, but more and more consumers are buying produce through online service.

Delivery Services Help Small Restaurants Compete

Partnering with small, local restaurants appeals to consumers looking for something outside the pizza-and-Chinese norm, and helps local eateries compete with the big chains.

Traditional Grocers Keep Losing Market Share

Traditional supermarkets saw their market share slip from 30.7 percent to 26.7 percent from 2003 to 2013.

Campbell Soup Co. Selects Transplace For 3PL Services

Campbell will leverage Transplace’s proprietary transportation management system (TMS) to efficiently manage its domestic transportation operations in order to increase visibility, reduce transportation costs and achieve greater operational efficiencies.

Transplace

Canada To Introduce National Pig Identification And Traceability Program

The regulations will allow for a formal agreement with a third party administrator to create and maintain a database containing up-to-date information on the identification, movement and location of all pigs in Canada.

Kroger To Build 1M-Square-Foot Cold Storage Facility In Georgia

The new 1,000,000-square-foot cold storage distribution facility to be located on the old Fort Gillem Army base in Forest Park, Ga., and will service existing operations in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Gordon Food Service To Open Distribution Center In Aberdeen, Md.

Gordon Food Service

The facility will serve foodservice operators in the Baltimore Md. Washington D.C., and Philadelphia Pa. areas.

Preferred Freezer Services Completes Construction in the San Francisco Bay Area

Preferred Freezer Services (PFS), division of Lineage Logistics

The San Leandro facility is the company’s seventh cold storage facility in California and the 33rd worldwide.

Dematic to Provide Order Fulfillment System for Associated Grocers of New England

Dematic Corporation

The order fulfillment system features Dematic Multishuttle inventory staging technology, as well as “goods-to-person” pick stations.

Dematic Multishuttle

Intelligrated Introduces Resident Maintenance Program For Distribution Operations

Honeywell Intelligrated (formerly known as Intelligrated Inc.)

This program places certified technicians on-site full-time to handle material handling system and facility maintenance functions, provide guaranteed uptime, extend the life of equipment and lower total maintenance costs.

Emerging Technologies

Domino's Launches Voice Ordering For Its Apps

Domino's new voice ordering platform is powered by Nuance's Nina Mobile, an intelligent virtual assistant that leverages speech recognition, speech synthesis and natural language understanding technologies.

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In-Store Shopping Will Let Grocers Personalize Consumer Experiences

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC)

According to PwC, 83 percent of survey respondents prefer to shop at traditional grocery stores.

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