Food Lion, LLC Expands Roll Out of ACM Self Checkout from Productivity Solutions, Inc. - PSI -; Places Orders for Additional Stores in 2002.Business Editors Marketechnics 2002 Booth No. 1033 JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2002 Productivity Solutions, Inc. (PSI) and Food Lion Food Lion LLC is an American grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina that operates approximately 1,300 supermarkets in 11 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states under the Food Lion, Harveys, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, and Reid's nameplates. , LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (Food Lion) announced today that Food Lion is expanding its installed base of PSI ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, www.acm.org) A membership organization founded in 1947 dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of information processing. In addition to awards and publications, ACM also maintains special interest groups (SIGs) in the computer field. (R) Self Checkout A customer-operated point-of-sale (POS) station. Also called a "self-scanning checkout," customers pay for and bag their own merchandise without interacting with a human cashier, although a support person is typically nearby and available. units with an order for up to 50 stores to be installed in 2002. The ACM solution makes self checkout available to all shoppers with either large or small baskets to scan their order and -- without the need for a cashier -- pay with cash, credit cards or debit cards. "Based on the ACM's proven technology to handle both large and small orders easily regardless of store volume or format, we are expanding our installations of the ACM in 2002," said Doug Miller, Director of Store Systems, Food Lion. "After intensive evaluation of currently available self checkout solutions, we believe the ACM Self Checkout is the best solution for offering added convenience to all of our customers," added John Mercer, Vice President of Retail Services, Food Lion. "Food Lion's selection of the ACM validates that self checkout, and the ACM in particular, is the best solution for both large and smaller format stores, like those of Food Lion," said Bruce Failing, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of PSI. "We believe the ACM self checkout will be an important part of Food Lion's continuing effort to offer the best service and convenience to its customers." The ACM (Automated Checkout Machine), with its patented conveyor-based lane design, closely resembles a conventional checkout lane, yet incorporates full-color touch-screen, multi-media instruction, and online lookup screens to make it customer friendly and easy to use. This patented lane design also provides the flexibility to accommodate shoppers with full or express size orders, which means the ACM can handle significantly more sales and more items than regular checkout lanes and competing self checkout solutions. The ACM can be customized by the retailer, and fits easily into each retailer's front-end checkout area. All these capabilities lead to an excellent return on investment in the self checkout industry. The new PSI ACM solution is now integrated with IBM's high-function, retail-hardened POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale components offering excellent reliability to retailers. PSI and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) are jointly marketing the new PSI ACM solution to retailers. About Food Lion Food Lion LLC is a subsidiary of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of Brussels-based Delhaize Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DEG). Food Lion employs more than 86,000 associates and operates 1,200 stores, delivering Extra Low Prices and service to its customers, in 11 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Food Lion stores offer more than 24,000 different products. About PSI Productivity Solutions, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of automated self checkout solutions in the US. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the company provides retailers with industry-leading software and systems designed specifically to enhance productivity while improving customer service. PSI, a private company, is backed by venture capital partners including Canaan Partners and GE. For more information about ACM Self Checkout and PSI, please visit www.ps-inc.com. Editor's Note: PSI will exhibit at Marketechnics 2002, San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. , February 3-5, Booth 1033. |
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