Stories about: Albertson's

As it prepares for its annual user conference in San Francisco this week, Sun Microsystems has a lot to prove. The company that once boasted of being the "dot in dot com" has watched its position as an industry leader erode over the last few years as the iconoclast image and corporate culture that served it so well during the Internet boom has worked against it during leaner times.

A handful of large Australian retailers are interested in deploying a new self-checkout system released last week that may bring an end to tedious supermarket queues.

Storage company Iomega on Thursday introduced its new Peerless removable storage device, a pocket-sized drive that offers between 10G bytes and 20G bytes of storage on removable cartridges.

Location, location, location is the mantra behind one company's effort to place its wares on America's kitchen counters. HomeAccess International, a maker of Web devices, has designed a telephone-complete with screen, bar-code scanner and keyboard-that provides its users with a direct connection to local merchants. Albertson's Inc., the country's second-largest supermarket chain, is one of the first companies to distribute the devices to its customers (for free). The company envisions home shoppers waving items (cereal boxes, cans of lima beans) in front of the bar-code scanner, which will automatically add them to an electronic grocery list. Shoppers can then use the device's screen and keyboard to order other provisions from the Albertson's product catalog. Albertson's will even deliver orders for free (if they're greater than $60).

FRAMINGHAM (09/01/2000) - The WorldWide Retail Exchange (WWRE) this week named Colin Dyer as CEO. Dyer will oversee the development of the WWRE's e-commerce marketplace. He most recently served as CEO of U.K.-based Courtaulds Textiles PLC, an international clothing and fabric company operating in 17 countries. The WWRE's membership includes Albertson's Inc., CVS Corp., J. C. Penney Co., Kmart Corp., Longs Drug Stores Corp., Rite Aid Corp., Safeway Inc., Target Corp. and Walgreen Co..

Woolworths has dovetailed into the World Wide Retail Exchange (WWRE), the world's largest buying exchange believed to be worth $US450 billion, to boost product buying volumes and cut overhead costs.

The WorldWide Retail Exchange, a large consortium of retailers planning an electronic marketplace, announced yesterday that IBM, I2Technologies and Ariba will construct the technological infrastructure for the group.

Still bruised from bearing a myriad of cyberattacks during the last six months, U.S. companies will soon be able to access an ISAC (information sharing and analysis center) built to anonymously receive, define, and alert its members of any security issues that cross its path.

In the continuing push toward voice/data convergence, enterprises wary of taking the plunge into new technologies such as VOIP (voice over IP) are finding a test bed of sorts in the form of a new breed of telecom-based service providers.