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Company attempts to 'revolutionize checkout' with mobile platform
July 6, 2012
After a successful test project in a Washington supermarket, QThru is officially launching its mobile platform allowing shoppers to scan items with their…
read nowBest Buy: Another retailer copying Apple
July 6, 2012
Best Buy Co. is hoping to channel a bit of Apple's success by copying its design, according to the The Wall Street journal, which featured a photo of Best…
read nowMeridian releases auto dealership kiosk
July 5, 2012
Automobile dealerships can now deploy a new kiosk designed by Meridian and Adam Technology that allows customers to view services by their vehicle year, make…
read nowRetail Customer Experience Executive Summit adds 3rd day for Social Media Bootcamp
July 5, 2012
RetailCustomerExperience.com is adding a third full day, focusing on helping retailers navigate social media, to its annual Retail Customer Experience…
read nowStudy: Multichannel retailers expect more growth than online-only stores
July 3, 2012
Online-only and multichannel retailers both expect growth in the next year, according to new research from Eccomplish, which found about 73 percent of them are…
read nowRobotic retail: AndyVision debuts in campus store
July 3, 2012
Retail now has its very own robot – AndyVision. The robot's designer Priya Narasimhan, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, who heads the Intel Science and…
read nowIBM, retail partners testing augmented reality
July 2, 2012
IBM may soon roll out augmented reality to help retailers better serve their customers, according to a story on PCWorld.com, that said the company's research…
read nowApple's Genius Bar getting makeover?
July 2, 2012
Apple is testing a new design of its Genius Bars to try to accommodate more users, according to ifoapplestore.com.
read nowStudy: Consumers easily fooled by discounts, freebies
July 2, 2012
Math is hard; just ask the numerous shoppers who struggled with fractions in a study recently completed at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of…
read nowControlCase authorized to certify PCI Compliance
June 29, 2012
ControlCase, a PCI-compliance company headquartered in McLean, Va., recently received authorization to validate the full range of payment applications and…
read nowDick's launches retail catalog via app
June 29, 2012
Dick's Sporting Goods has released 2012 Football, a Digital Publishing Suite app for the iPad that is basically a retail catalog selling football cleats…
read nowRetail trade organizations voice concern over health care ruling
June 29, 2012
Retail stocks deepened their loss on Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, according to Christine Pollack…
read nowRCE Podcast episode 2: ACA upheld, nude grocery shopping and Obama's gift registry
June 29, 2012
The National Retail Federation reacted very strongly to yesterday's Supreme Court decision to uphold the legislation commonly known as "Obamacare," and our…
read nowGoogle unveils 'Save-to-Wallet'
June 29, 2012
Internet search giant Google has unveiled a new "Save-To-Wallet" API for the Google Wallet at its I/O conference in San Francisco, according to NFCworld.com.
read nowVirgin Mobile opening first retail stores
June 28, 2012
Sprint Nextel's Virgin Mobile, the pay-as-you-go carrier, is opening its first 10 retail stores tomorrow in Chicago, becoming the second U.S. prepaid service…
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