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Hannaford Brothers Co. has already received productivity and cost-avoidance windfalls from an ongoing point-of-sale system replacement project that will cost between $10 million and $20 million, executives at the grocer said last week.
The new Linux-based POS systems have been installed in about two-thirds of the company's 140-plus supermarkets in New England and New York. Hannaford Bros., a division of Brussels-based Delhaize Group, expects to complete the implementation of the thin-client systems by October, said CIO Bill Homa. The systems, which are supported by 12 vendors of servers, software, printers and other peripheral devices, replace 15-year-old Fujitsu Ltd. technology based on OS/2 Version 1.3, according to Homa.
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