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Paramount Foods Upgrades Store Technology

Overview Founded in 1963, Paramount Foods has a long and successful history in the town of Clinton, North Carolina. As franchisee of four Piggly Wiggly grocery stores, Paramount Foods successfully competes with major supermarket chains like Wal-Mart and Food Lion. Paramount Foods needed a new retail technology platform in order to keep up with large supermarket chains and selected Torex's In Store Information System (ISIS) solution, complete with HP rp5000 POS hardware and HP ProLiant servers.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	File and Network Servers, Point of Sale Devices

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