Collateral:Fred Meyer: Super-sizing the Shopping Experience

Brief Overview

Fred Meyer Stores, a division of The Kroger Co., is a supercenter pioneer providing food and general merchandise to cost-conscious consumers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. As a leading supercenter operator in the United States, Fred Meyer offers everything from bedding and apparel to groceries, consumer electronics, fuel and jewelry.

Benefits include:

• Increased average in-stock percentage from 92 percent to 96 percent

• Improved management of allocations

• Enhanced enterprise-wide visibility

• Optimized cluster and store-specific category and assortment plans

• Improved sales, inventory turns and margins

• Increased planner/buyer productivity

• Ability to provide vendors with more accurate and timely forecasts

• Improved inventory management

• Optimized space and floor plans, as well as increased category sales

• Improved ability to monitor key performance indicators

• Improved management and reporting of planogram status