Kimberton Whole Foods is an independently owned natural grocery chain with four locations and a central warehouse in Pennsylvania. Serving the communities of Kimberton, Douglassville, Downingtown, Ottsville, and surrounding areas, Kimberton Whole Foods offers health food with an emphasis on creating a “dynamically supportive marketplace” for organic farmers and local producers. ... Read More
Joel Patterson opened the doors to Nature's Green Grocer Market & Café, located in Peterborough, NH, three years ago inspired by his culinary background, personal interest in natural and organic products, and entrepreneurial spirit. When deciding to move forward in a retail venture, it seemed that a full-service natural products marketplace was the perfect complement to his personal lifestyle, strengths, background and interests. The formula worked as... Read More
Berkshire Co-op Market located in Great Barrington, MA, is the area’s source for natural and organic products served up in a friendly, farmer’s market style environment. The cooperative has 3400 active Owners, which represents about 7000 people (Owners are allowed Associates). They are also open to the general public. Berkshire Co-op Market stocks over 10,000 products and they process around 1000 sales transactions per day. Fifty-four percent of all sales come from Owners. The goal is to achieve a 70% Owner-Sales ratio through strategic marketing, as well as, the use of technology to understand buying habits and trends. In 2009, the Berkshire Co-op Market Management team began the search for a new retail automation solution to replace their antiquated point-of-sale system.... Read More
2 J's Fresh Market is a unique cross-over grocery store that has served the Great Falls, Montana community since 1986. While emphasis is placed on natural and organic products, 2 J's also offers traditional grocery items within their 10,000 square foot retail space. They work closely with area farmers and ranchers to provide the freshest, highest quality products for their customers. Their formula seems to be working as they have experienced significant growth over the past few years fueled by consumers seeking healthier options... Read More
Fruitful Yield is a 10-store Natural Products retail chain located in Illinois. Over the years, they have implemented several point-of-sale (POS) systems to help them better manage a demanding chain enterprise. At times, this was a frustrating task and created more strain on store staff and management than it alleviated. Tired of spending hours in crisis mode and frustrated over inefficiencies, General Manager, Dave Reczek and POS and Administrative Support Manager, Catherine Eugenides began to look for a new system that could provide not only basic POS functionality but complete, front-to-back enterprise automation... Read More
Good Foods Co-op is a locally owned and operated natural products market and café with two locations in Lexington, Kentucky. Their main location is Good Foods Market and Café, an expanding store with complete market, customer service department and 2,825 square foot café. In 2004, they opened a downtown café located in the Lexington Public Library called Good Foods Chapter 2. Good Foods installed the ECRS CATAPULT System with CATAPULT Membership Server (CMS) in the fall of 2008... Read More
For Release - July 11, 2008, Hamilton, Ontario: Goodness Me is a locally owned and operated health and natural foods store, founded 27 years ago by Janet and Scott Jacks. Five years ago, Armagh Cash Register was called in to install the CATAPULT Retail Automation System, in their only store. Over the last five years, increased from one to three stores, employ over 80 employees, and added thousands of products to their inventory... Read More
Healthy Living Center Natural Foods in South Burlington, VT is currently in its 18th year of business serving a range of health conscious consumers. After three years of planning and construction, the store has completed a significant expansion, including a large new meat and cheese case, an expanded bulk department, new wines, and much more. ECRS recently spoke with manager Mike Deutsch about the changes Healthy Living Center has undertaken in the last year with the addition of the CATAPULT system... Read More
Durango Natural Foods in Durango, CO, is currently in its 31st year as a not-for-profit whole foods cooperative on a mission to provide quality whole foods to the surrounding region. The health food store started out in a small alley with an old toolbox as its original cash register. Durango Natural Foods has been using CATAPULT for almost two years. We recently spoke with general manager Pamela Beckard and front-end manager Evid Moore about how they're using CATAPULT to help manage their growing business... Read More
Located in the Hudson River Valley by the Catskill Mountains, Woodstock, NY is a well-known arts and tourist community. According to Bob Whitcomb, owner and president of Sunflower Natural Foods of Woodstock, his town is much busier than its moderate population might suggest. Mr. Whitcomb recently talked with us about how CATAPULT is helping him automate his health retail operation... Read More
Located in Pullman, MI, Country Life Natural Foods is a wholesaler and retailer of natural, organic, and vegetarian foods. Store owner Michael Stevens says the primary objective of his business is to help his customers live fuller, healthier lives by providing those hard-to-find health food products... Read More
Located in the growing town of Livonia, MI, Zerbo's Health Foods is a 12,000-square-foot supermarket that provides natural goods to health-minded consumers in the surrounding community. Zerbo's offers vitamins in a variety of categories, including food-based, all natural, and allergy-free. They also carry foods that are wheat-free, sugar-free, and all-natural. Zerbo's offers healing herbal teas for everything from arthritis to sleep aids. A full spectrum of organic produce is available as well. Zerbo's owner Ryan Adams talked with us recently about the benefits CATAPULT is bringing to his expanding retail enterprise... Read More
According to Raisin Rack owner Don Caster, the region of central Ohio around his two stores has been experiencing an economic explosion over the last few years. Caster says his business has recently doubled in response to the rising demand for natural foods in his area. Although he doesn't have any current plans to expand to new retail locations, Caster made it clear that the growth he's seeing within his existing stores is phenomenal. For now he plans to focus his resources on expanding business and profitability at his Westerville and Canton locations. Caster recently provided us with a profile of how he's using CATAPULT's Multistore module to manage two store locations from his headquarters... Read More
The ARTS/OPOS® standard has been around long enough to expect it to generate real-world solutions to retailer business problems. ECR Software Corporation (ECRS, Boone, NC), this year created what we trademarked The POS Dream Team 2000 site, our demonstration project that proves just how powerful this standard will be... Read More
House of Nutrition is a full-scale health supplement retailer owned and operated by Robert Cuzzo. Supplying the Yonkers, NY area with a comprehensive selection of health products, House of Nutrition takes its position in the supplement retail business very seriously. The store uses CATAPULT to manage between 8 and 10 thousand SKUs on a daily basis. ECRS caught up with Mr. Cuzzo recently to find out what he had to say about CATAPULT... Read More
Located just a stone's throw away from the University of Virginia in the heart of Charlottesville, Rebecca's Natural Food is a health food haven for locals and students alike. Its proximity to Monticello and Wintergreen ski resort make it an occasional stopover for area tourists as well. Owner Norman Dill recently sent several of his top employees for three days of intensive training at the October CATAPULT End-User School in Boone, NC. We took this opportunity to get some feedback from Dill and his staff about CATAPULT... Read More
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