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Opinion: Store design should emphasize comfort
April 13, 2008
Retail Week: In a debate on store design trends, Fitch chief creative director Tim Greenhalgh said shoppers are looking for places where "you can go and feel…
read nowMost people uneasy with customized Web content
April 13, 2008
Reuters: Nearly 60 percent of 2,513 people in the United States questioned in a Harris Interactive poll said they were uneasy when Web sites use information…
read nowSnap.Send.Get connects mobile phones, product info
April 13, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. — SnapTell, provider of image recognition-based mobile marketing solutions, was recently selected by Gartner, world's leading information…
read nowBest Buy benefits from axing loyalty card fees
April 10, 2008
Forbes: When Best Buy removed annual fees from its Rewards Zone bonus card program, the company yielded about 10 times the number of shoppers opting to sign…
read nowOnline sales to drive in-store technology growth
April 10, 2008
Inside Retailing (Australia): With Internet sales expected to account for almost 20 percent of turnover by 2012-15, and Web sites becoming increasingly…
read nowGamer Doc takes on game market with themed stores
April 10, 2008
Ars Technica: Big box retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City are getting into the video game market by dedicating more in-store space to gaming. Other…
read nowMore retail technology on the way, and soon
April 10, 2008
Arizona Daily Star: More new technologies are likely on the way for retail stores, speakers said Thursday at this year's Global Retailing Conference, held by…
read nowInterest in electronic shelf labels grows
April 10, 2008
San Jose Business Journal: With the click of a mouse, the local grocery store could drop prices for a happy hour sale, and just as easily, with another click…
read nowConsumer needs to be the central focus of multi-channel retail
April 9, 2008
Retail Week: Multichannel retailing should be about allowing customers to access your services in whatever form they find easiest, while continuing to act as…
read nowShopperDNA gauges effectiveness of in-store marketing
April 9, 2008
Progressive Grocer: Marketing and sales management consulting firm Cannondale Associates has developed an analytical process and methodology for successfully…
read nowSelf-service store may employ RFID instead of people
April 9, 2008
RFID Journal: Food retail research and consulting company Food Information Service Europe is in discussion with retailers in the Netherlands and Belgium to…
read nowA.R.E. Retail Design Award winners named
April 8, 2008
The Association for Retail Environments has published the complete list of winners in its 2008 Retail Design Awards. Store of the Year was awarded to…
read nowTimeTrade announces webinar on personalized retailing
April 8, 2008
BEDFORD, Mass. — TimeTrade Systems, provider of self-service appointment scheduling, announced it will host a complimentary Webcast on April 17 entitled "Drive…
read nowEscalate releases Customer1 version 4.0
April 7, 2008
SAN DIEGO — Escalate Retail announced the availability of Version 4.0 of its Customer1 point of service software application. The upgraded version of…
read nowReport: Multi-channel must be seamless, customer-centric
April 7, 2008
SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York — CORESense, a software-as-a-service multi-channel retail management system company serving small to medium-sized specialty…
read nowIBM WebSphere Premises Server connects with sensor data
April 7, 2008
ARMONK, NY — IBM announced the release of WebSphere Premises Server version 6.1, a software product that enables business process transformation by responding…
read nowNorth American consumers demand more self-service
April 7, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. — A growing legion of North American consumers use self-service in their everyday lives, and the latest research from NCR Corp. shows an…
read nowShopatron rolls out in-store pickup solution
April 7, 2008
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Shopatron, a provider of e-commerce solutions for consumer goods manufacturers, directs orders from manufacturers' Web sites to…
read nowMuzak, DMX receive DOJ clearance on merger
April 7, 2008
FORT MILL, S.C. & AUSTIN, Texas — Muzak LLC and DMX Inc. announced that they have been informed by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of…
read nowManufacturing-on-demand could reinvent video retailing
April 6, 2008
Screen Digest: The video business is approaching saturation point in many markets. Retailers struggle to accommodate an ever-expanding DVD catalog while…
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