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Giant Food will open a tech-savvy grocery store tomorrow
OCTOBER 11, 2005 --
Tomorrow, Giant Food Stores, a subsidiary of Ahold USA Inc., will open its new concept store located in Camp Hill, Pa. The new 91,200-sq.-ft. store features an innovative approach to store design, layout and merchandising while using state of the art technologies to help customers find products, place orders, get information and check out with greater ease and speed. Giant's technology solutions include 23 self-service kiosk applications running on 25 IBM Anyplace Kiosks with Symbol MS 3207 MiniScan scanners and five large LCD digital media screens interfacing to 14 legacy data sources, content and operations integration. These kiosks allow shoppers to complete many in-store tasks with the touch of the screen, including pre-ordering from specialty shops within the store (such as bakery, deli and prescriptions). Shoppers can also receive personalized offers and coupons based on their shopping history, reference information from their loyalty card and look up prices on various products throughout the store all via special applications developed by Agilysys. The Camp Hill store has 72 portable Symbol PS3050 handheld mobile computing devices for customers' use that are tightly integrated into Giant's POS and self-checkout systems. Shoppers can use their EasyShop scanner to move through the store, scanning and bagging their purchases as they go. "The customer-friendly technology at the Camp Hill Giant store will go beyond the last wave of grocery retail innovations such as self-checkout and standalone kiosks," said Tony Schiano, president and CEO, Giant Food Stores, in a statement.
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