Winning the cold war

Iceland Frozen Foods currently has 170 freezer centres and is growing at around 30 new outlets every year. The company uses an IBM System 38. All the stores now have portable data capture terminals allowing a bar‐coded recording system and two‐thirds of the stores have EPoS. Scanning has been on tes...

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Published in:Retail and Distribution Management
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Emerald 1988
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb018371
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Summary:Iceland Frozen Foods currently has 170 freezer centres and is growing at around 30 new outlets every year. The company uses an IBM System 38. All the stores now have portable data capture terminals allowing a bar‐coded recording system and two‐thirds of the stores have EPoS. Scanning has been on test in three stores.