Nonfoods

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Buy For Less, a regional grocery chain with locations throughout central Oklahoma, plans to install point-of-purchase coupon dispensing and in-store advertising solutions in all 10 of its locations.

NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- In keeping with Kraft Foods' ongoing commitment to health and wellness, the food and beverage giant is participating in the Second Annual Keystone Center Youth Policy Summit this week in Keystone, Colo., along with several nonprofit organizations, a number of other Fortune 100 companies, and students and teachers from across the country.

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. -- Natural and organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market opened its first location on the New Jersey Shore yesterday, at Chapel Hill Shopping Center here. The occasion also marked the opening of the company's 170th store.

LOS ANGELES -- The Kroger Co.'s Ralphs division here, and specialty coffee and tea retailer, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, are launching a strategic partnership that will place the latter's brew program in 300 of the former's service delis.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- HighJump Software, a 3M company, said that Earthbound Farm has achieved measurable operational improvements since implementing its solutions at Earthbound Farm facilities in California and Arizona.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Retail drug giant CVS/pharmacy plans to deploy radio frequency-enabled card payment terminals across its 5,400-store chain, and has tapped one vendor as its preferred supplier.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. -- Publix Super Markets unveiled what its president called a data synchronization solution that would expand and accelerate existing industry efforts, with retailers' needs uppermost in mind.

OTTAWA, Ontario -- Since specialty retailer Farm Boy, Inc., based here, retained Relizon last autumn to develop and implement a gift card marketing program to encourage customer acquisition and drive revenues, the business results have been impressive, the retailer revealed yesterday. For example, during the 2004 holiday season, Farm Boy reported a 28 percent rise in gift card sales over last year's holiday returns.