Texas shoppers can fund PayPal accounts at Coinstar kiosks

May 17, 2012

PayPal and Coinstar are testing a secure way for consumers to fund their PayPal accounts with cash and coins at select grocery stores through Coinstar kiosks.

Retail Top 100 2012, No. 87: Retail at airports

May 16, 2012

How customers are driving mobile POS

by John Kenney — SVP, Business Development, Stella Nova Technologies

Retail stores are in a push for customers to drive their shopping experience—from selection to checkout. At the same time, customers are looking for a…

Social media has the power to kill pink slime

by Chris Petersen — Owner, IMS

Bettina Siegel is the poster child for what a blog can do.

Why customers seem scarce - part 3

by Dale Furtwengler — President, Furtwengler & Associates, P.C.

In the previous two segments (1, 2) we learned how industry overcapacity, a dying industry and a perception that our competitors' offerings are superior cause…

Retail Top 100 2012, No. 88: Cafes and other amenities

May 15, 2012

Roundtable: Vidal Sassoon's lasting legacy for retail

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

The beauty pioneer changed the way people think about hair and built a retail empire in the process.

When choosing means losing time

by Lisa Biank Fasig — Director, JZMcBride and Associates

On a recent trip to a popular local pottery shop – the kind of place where everything is made on the premises by hand – I was faced with an unexpected dilemma…

Q&A with Bryan Pearson, author of 'The Loyalty Leap'

Pearson discusses the importance of relevance when it comes to building a loyalty program that people will care about.

Svpply launches dashboard for retailers

May 15, 2012

Svpply, a social shopping site, today launched "We Want This!," a program that allows retailers to target the most relevant and influential members in the…

NRF: Retail marks 22 consecutive months of growth

May 15, 2012

Unseasonably warm weather in February and March and an early Easter holiday shifted consumers' spending appetite last month, though retailers in April still…

Research reveals behaviors of cost-conscious grocery shoppers

May 15, 2012

A new research report sponsored by MaxPoint Interactive revealed the changing behavior among cost-conscious grocery shoppers as they move through the path to…

Location, location, location: Where to put digital signage in retail

Retailers have to get smart when it comes to digital signage placement.

You can trust the experts to be wrong

by Harvey Mackay — Author, Mackay Mitchell

There are two types of experts, and it's very important to distinguish between them: There is the expert who can make something happen, and there is the expert…

Retail Top 100 2012, No. 89: RFID in retail

May 14, 2012

Postea teams with NCR to deliver '21st-Century post office'

May 14, 2012

Postea Inc., a technology provider for the postal, mailing and logistics industry, and NCR Corp. are partnering to "bring the post office into the 21st…

MRI turns c-store coolers into digital signage displays

May 14, 2012

Atlanta-based Manufacturing Resources International announced that it has introduced its first full-size transparent digital LCD door for convenience and…

Alaskan CU goes online with PaySecure Internet PIN debit

May 14, 2012

Acculynk, Alaska USA FCU and Alaska Option today announced that Alaska USA will add Internet PIN debit through Acculynk's PaySecure network. This will allow…

Checkout on Demand offering multi-channel payments

May 14, 2012

Checkout on Demand, a provider of multi-channel retailing software, has teamed up with SecureTrading to provide online payment processing for its latest retail…

Is Walmart losing out on deeper loyalty by not offering loyalty cards?

by Annamaria Turano — Executive Director, MCAworks

Walmart remains one of the few giant retailers which does not yet offer a customer loyalty card. In the new book, Walmart: Key Insights and Practical Lessons…