Il Gigante is characterized by hypermarkets ranging from 3,000 m² to 9,000 m² and mostly located in the Milan region. The first five Il Gigante hypermarkets will be equipped with the Pricer ESL system before June 2010. The rollout program is to be completed by end 2011 for a total value of over 20 MSEK. “The fact that yet another leading Italian retailer chooses the Pricer system in this highly competitive region is a great success for us,” says Charles Jackson, CEO at Pricer. Pricer is, with its master distributor Nicolis Project, in Italy since 2005 and has more than 350 store installations with major food and non-food retail banners. The rollout decision follows a successful pilot installation in Milan in October 2009.“ESL will build price reactivity to increase customer satisfaction and support and improve operations,” says Stefano Nicolis, CEO at Nicolis Project. Central monitoring was a key part of the decision. Pricer’s two-way system allows central IT and store managers to monitor and support store employees and limit shrinkage. Il Gigante IT have implemented a full stock support function displayed at the shelf edge by Pricer’s segment-based Continuum ESL. Continuum offer multiple page registers to store and display all the product information on the ESL allowing store managers to check at the shelf edge the article turnover, inventory and re-ordering decision thus bringing decision making and analysis where it should be, on the shop floor. Il Gigante has looked at using the ESL to its full potential and has even adapted ESL to their own operations such as using it to monitor from head office the presence of discontinued articles.. Il Gigante today is using eleven + four pages on Continuum ESLs. Pricer’s segment-based ESL range also provides a unique feature named ADS (Automated Display price Scenarios), PowerPoint-like* communication at the shelf edge. ADS enable to display animations and transitions, such as bundle packs, loyalty card price, promotional sequence messaging, providing more flexibility to product promotion. “Il Gigante implemented ADS to communicate easily with their customers and support a dynamic pricing policy,” adds M. Nicolis. * PowerPoint is a product and a brand owned by Microsoft Corporation About Il Gigante Il Gigante group was founded in 1972. Their hypermarkets are mainly located in the Northern regions of the country, especially Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Piémont.
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