Last updated on July 18th, 2015 at 09:57 am
New Channels News In Brief…
Natural Products Expo East 2015, the East Coast’s largest natural, organic and healthy products event, is poised to hit record numbers this year with more than 22,000 attendees and more than 1,800 exhibitors. According to show planners, 30 percent of the exhibitors are exhibiting for the first time and are new to the marketplace. Expo East will take place Sept. 16-19 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland and is co-located with Biofach America, All Things Organic, NPA East and the Harvest Festival…
Greenpeace has released its 2015 “Carting Away The Oceans” report, which evaluates and ranks supermarkets on their efforts to protect both the oceans and seafood industry workers. Whole Foods, Wegmans, Hy-Vee and Safeway ranked as the top four retailers overall this year, finishing in the “good” category. Among other positive steps, each of the retailers has begun to address Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and human rights abuses through policies, political advocacy and participation in industry conversations to identify solutions…
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions announced that BJ’s Wholesale Club has selected Toshiba to manage and be the single point of contact for all maintenance services, including Toshiba point-of-sale hardware and all other retail store equipment. Toshiba will lead and manage all services, providing maintenance for Toshiba’s System 6 self-checkout and other hardware, and peripherals from other BJ’s vendors, including in-house scanners, pin pads, battery backup devices, printers and displays. Toshiba also will manage replacement stock in support of the store’s equipment needs.
