Casey's General Stores Inc. Completes 100th Store Installation Milestone for Retalix StorePoint POS System
Rollout of StorePoint system continues to pick up steam and drive operating efficiencies
Dallas, TX, April 28, 2003. Casey’s General Stores, one of the nation’s largest convenience store chains with 1345 stores in 9 states, including 1282 company stores and 63 franchise stores, announced the milestone completion of their 100th store installation of the Retalix StorePoint suite of applications. The StorePoint suite from Retalix Ltd. (Nasdaq:RTLX) encompasses Point of Sale, Back Office, Fuel, and Host level PriceBook management. Casey’s General Stores is continuing to aggressively roll out StorePoint, allowing them to enhance the visibility and management of store operations, and improve the customer shopping experience.
“The StorePoint POS application, with its intuitive touch screen interface, allows us to reduce employee training time and provide a consistent shopping experience for our customers,” said Brad Heyer, Casey’s Vice President of Information Services. “Our goal is to leverage technology to reduce operating expenses, and also provide our associates with the tools to better serve our customers. The StorePoint suite from Retalix is allowing us to accomplish both of these objectives.”
“Casey’s General Stores serves as a great example of a company that leverages technology to improve operating results and the customer shopping experience,” said Jeff Yelton, President and CEO of Retalix USA. “They are utilizing our StorePoint product suite to drive operating efficiencies such as ‘Pay at the Pump’ and inventory management, and in turn are realizing the benefits that the open Retalix technology platform brings.”
About Casey’s General Stores
Founded in 1968, Casey’s General Stores are self distributing and have store locations in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana. Casey’s General Stores are headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa and employ over 13,000 people.
About Retalix Ltd.
Retalix Ltd., with North American headquarters in Dallas, TX, provides integrated enterprise-wide software solutions for the retail food industry worldwide, including supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants. The Company offers a full suite of software applications that support a food retailer's essential retailing operations and enable retailers to increase their operating efficiencies while improving customer acquisition, retention and profitability. With installations in more than 20,000 stores and quick service restaurants across 44 countries, the Company markets its software solutions through direct sales, distributors, local dealers and its various subsidiaries. The Company was founded in 1982 as Point of Sale Limited and changed its name in November of 2000 to Retalix Ltd. The Company's ordinary shares have been publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since November 1994 and on the NASDAQ National Market System since July 1998. For further information, please visit the Company's web sites at www.retalix.com.
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