The area of location information management (LIM) is an overlooked data segment that a rising number of consumer goods firms are trumpeting as a vital enabler to gain competitive advantage.
The UK's largest grocery retailer and the fifth largest retailer in the world, Tesco PLC, intends to enter the United States retail market with a new convenience format, beginning on the West Coast in 2007.
After completing a pilot program earlier this year, Costco Wholesale and Information Resources Inc. (IRI) fully deploy the Costco Collaborative Retail Exchange (CRX) program across Costco's major food and non-food departments in the United States.