Seamless and user-friendly experience
streamlines compliance efforts and temperature monitoring for
grocers nationwide
SmartSense by Digi®, part of Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII,
www.digi.com) and a leading global provider of Internet of Things
(IoT) connectivity solutions, today announced significant expansion
milestones in its relationships with prominent grocery chains
Jerry’s Foods, Knowlan’s Fresh Foods, and Giant Eagle.
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SmartSense Inks Renewals and Upgrades
with Three Leading Grocery Customers to Continue Amplifying Food
Safety Offerings. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Grocers continually strive to prioritize customer satisfaction
and operational efficiency while maintaining high food safety
standards. To achieve this, leading grocers like Jerry’s Foods,
Knowlan’s Fresh Foods, and Giant Eagle have renewed, upgraded, and
expanded their relationships with SmartSense to help amplify their
commitment to ongoing food safety practices and quality
assurance.
“Our mission is to provide our grocery customers with IoT
solutions and automation tools that seamlessly bolster operational
efficiency and compliance throughout their stores,” said Guy
Yehiav, President of SmartSense by Digi. “We look forward to
building on our progress through these extended relationships and
value the trust our customers put in our team.”
Jerry’s Foods Enhances Store Visibility with Descriptive
Insights from SmartSense
In the last seven years of working with SmartSense, Jerry’s
Foods has rolled out operations throughout 23 locations to deliver
fresh and high-quality products to their customers. Jerry's Foods
is the largest Cub Foods franchise in the United States, operating
in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and in Florida.
“The continued support from SmartSense helps us uphold our
dedication to a customer-centric approach to business,” said Dana
Glade, Director of Retail Operations at Jerry’s Foods. “Since our
inception, Jerry’s Foods has remained committed to delivering
quality perishables and customer experiences. The specialized
support from SmartSense has provided us with the descriptive
insights that we were looking for to keep food fresh and our
customers healthy.”
Knowlan's Super Markets, Inc. / Festival Foods of Minnesota
Maintains Customer Satisfaction with IoT Technology from
SmartSense
Minnesota grocer, Knowlan's Super Markets, Inc. / Festival Foods
of Minnesota, has worked with SmartSense for six years and has
deployed SmartSense solutions across 10 locations. Knowlan's Super
Markets, Inc. / Festival Foods of Minnesota are family-owned
community stores with an incredible selection of groceries that
pair well with a wide variety of fresh foods.
“Our focus on food safety that delivers high quality foods
continues to enhance with our digital temperature monitoring
recording and alert program,” said Jason Herfel, President at
Knowlan's Fresh Foods. “SmartSense solutions have continued to
foster an even greater culture of food safety excellence that has
been experienced throughout our stores by both customers and
associates.”
Giant Eagle Simplifies Food Safety Compliance with SmartSense
Solutions
Over the last six years, SmartSense has protected 216 pharmacies
for Giant Eagle and provided digital task management for its 182
grocery locations and 128 convenience stores. Supporting food
safety and quality, Giant Eagle relies on 32,000 SmartSense digital
temperature monitoring devices to monitor critical food assets
remotely, automatically, and continuously.
By responding to SmartSense alerts and executing prescriptive
actions, Giant Eagle maintained proper holding conditions for more
than 72 million dollars’ worth of product in 2023. Giant Eagle has
renewed its program with SmartSense while also expanding the
relationship into fresh food manufacturing to help ensure
efficiency, compliance and the highest food safety standards.
“We are impressed with the SmartSense team’s ongoing commitment
to innovative solutions and look forward to applying their data
insights and prescriptive analytics towards our fresh foods
manufacturing operations,” said Vic Vercammen, Vice President of
Risk and Chief Compliance Officer of Giant Eagle. “Our ongoing
relationship serves as a testament to the impactful outcomes we
have seen throughout our stores and pharmacies. We look forward to
continuing our relationship, as food safety compliance and our
customers remain our top priority.”
SmartSense is committed to helping companies go beyond the
numbers, enabling teams to unlock the power of their data with
digital decisioning that boosts quality control, employee
productivity, asset protection, and compliance. With the SmartSense
IoT framework, grocers can simplify food safety initiatives and
gain real-time visibility into asset performance and
monitoring.
Learn more about how SmartSense IoT solutions are supporting
some of the largest grocery chains in the country here.
About Digi International
Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) is a leading global provider
of business and mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT)
connectivity products and solutions. We help our customers create
next-generation connected products and solutions to deploy, monitor
and manage critical communications infrastructures and compliance
standards in demanding environments with high levels of security,
relentless reliability and bulletproof performance. Founded in
1985, we’ve helped our customers connect over 100 million things,
and growing. For more information, visit www.digi.com.
About SmartSense by Digi
SmartSense by Digi®, a business unit of Digi International
(NASDAQ: DGII), is a leading global provider of Internet of Things
(IoT) Sensing as a Service solutions that deliver dynamic and
personalized asset monitoring, process digitization, and digital
decisioning across key verticals. The company enables organizations
to leverage the power of IoT automation, prescriptive workflows,
and insightful analytics to ensure compliance, workforce
productivity, brand loyalty, loss prevention, and reduction of
waste and energy consumption. Combining new and innovative
data-driven approaches with world-class IoT tools, SmartSense
partners with enterprises to elevate their business outcomes and
asset protection to new heights. For more information, visit
www.smartsense.co/.
About Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle, Inc., ranked among the top 40 on Forbes magazine’s
largest private corporations list, is one of the nation’s largest
food retailers and distributors with approximately $10 billion in
annual sales. Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has grown to be a
leading food, fuel and pharmacy retailer in the region with more
than 470 stores throughout western Pennsylvania, north central
Ohio, northern West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.
About Jerry's Enterprises, Inc.
Jerry's Enterprises, Inc. (JEI) is an operator of County Market,
Cub Foods, and Jerry's Foods grocery stores headquartered in Edina,
Minnesota. It was founded in 1947 by CEO Gerald A. (Jerry) Paulsen.
Jerry's Foods is the largest Cub Foods franchise in the United
States, with 20 retail supermarkets in the Twin Cities, two in
Wisconsin and one in Florida.
About Knowlan's Super Markets, Inc.
Knowlan’s Super Markets, Inc. is based in Vadnais Heights,
Minnesota. We own six Festival Foods of Minnesota stores and two
Knowlan’s Fresh Foods stores. We are a family owned, woman owned
and operated company. Our tradition for over a century is to
deliver our customers an experience with remarkable service in a
comfortable shopping environment. We offer an incredible selection
of grocery products that pair well with a wide variety of Fresh
Foods ranging from the freshest fruits and vegetables including
Minnesota Grown products that is part of our culture. Fresh cut
in-store beef and pork by our trained butchers, Deli fresh prepared
foods that taste great and in-store fresh bakery products that
offer excellent baked goods along with a selection from the local
bakery favorite — Taste of Scandinavia Bakery®. You’ll find our
Minnesota grocery store locations in Andover, Bloomington, Brooklyn
Park, Hugo, Lexington/Circle Pines, Maplewood, South St. Paul and
White Bear Lake. Our product offerings are offered beyond our
stores through Festival Express Online.
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