Uniform Supermarket Category Reference (“USCR”)
MicroNEX subscribes
to the Uniform Supermarket Category Reference (“USCR”) open
standard for tracking and analyzing product sales.
Customers receive numerous benefits by adopting USCR.
- By taking advantage
of the efforts of a broadly based standards group, grocers are spared
the expense of developing their own proprietary coding scheme.
- USCR is superior
to many home-grown structures because few grocers can match the experience
and perspective of a cross industry task group. The standards group,
for example, considers factors that are easily overlooked as category
standards are designed — such as the close
connection between Category Management and Customer
Relationship Management.
- Adopting a standard also helps grocers gain insight by making it easier for grocers to compare their product sales to industry and geographic reports.
The latest release
— USCR9.1.b — may be viewed and downloaded from this site. The
release consists of 855 product categories. (CRISP
users who devise their own category structures may code up to 900,000
non-standard categories).
The Grocery and Alcohol Beverage industries are both incorporated in the
USCR release. The Alcohol Beverage market is also reported separately.
Go To USCR9.1.b...
Overview
Grocery & Alcohol Beverage Industry
Alcohol Beverage Industry
