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Foot Locker sued over gift card dormancy fees
October 13, 2008
Associated Press: A New Jersey man is taking on athletic apparel giant Foot Locker over the store's gift card policies, charging in court papers that they…
read nowIBM publishes report on customer shopping preferences
October 9, 2008
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — IBM announced the findings of a survey of nearly 4,300 U.S. and U.K. consumers that revealed insights into consumer behaviors…
read nowMore than half of retailers considering mobile contactless payments
October 9, 2008
BOSTON — Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company, surveyed 180 companies to outline the implications and trends related to proximity mobile payments. Retail…
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KioskCom Europe: Lines blur between digital signs, kiosks
Integrated touchscreens, networked signage hint at convergence.
read nowSurvey: Shoppers will flee an unclean store
October 7, 2008
DALLAS — A study conducted by M/A/R/C Research found that as many as 18 percent of shoppers would discontinue shopping at a particular store if they believe…
read nowIBM: multi-channel accounts for 20 percent of retail sales
October 5, 2008
Times Herald-Record: IBM announced a survey of nearly 4,300 U.S. and U.K. consumers that shows purchasing decisions are made across multiple retail channels…
read nowOracle enters the retail space-planning business
October 1, 2008
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — Oracle has announced plans to acquire Advanced Visual Technology Ltd., provider of 3-D visual macro space planning software for…
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Luxury retailers emphasize off-price operations
September 25, 2008
Business Week: With the economy stalled and consumer spending in free fall, snobbery is a bit harder to pull off than in years past. Even the most upscale…
read nowOpinion: Most loyalty programs use the wrong incentives
September 22, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The biggest problem with loyalty programs, according to two professors of management science, is that most retailers adopt a…
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Hackers 'are picking on the small guys'
by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance
New research into recent card breach incidents may surprise merchants.
read nowUrban Outfitters emphasizes 'cool,' lets employees design the store
August 26, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Amid the worst consumer-spending slump in years, Urban Outfitters Inc. has been racking up big sales and earnings gains without putting…
read nowGaps closing between consumer multichannel expectations, retailer readiness
August 25, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. company, today released the results of a recent survey that shows that the gaps are closing between…
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Customer-centric planning
Retailers must look at touchpoints from the shopper's point of view.
read nowXterprise announces retail RFID suite
August 20, 2008
DALLAS — Xterprise Inc. has announced a new suite of solutions for retail applications, which introduce advanced inventory management and execution…
read nowNeighborhood retail making a comeback
August 17, 2008
Springfield Business Journal: During the past 50 years, the commercial development industry has followed rooftop demographics as they moved farther out on the…
read nowSolidcore 'runtime control' secures the POS
August 17, 2008
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Solidcore Systems Inc., provider of software to detect and prevent unwanted change, has released POS Check and Control for easily securing…
read nowNine West pilots item-level RFID
August 11, 2008
NEW YORK — Jones Apparel Group Inc. announced that it has initiated a program to evaluate RFID technology in select Nine West retail locations. The goal of…
read nowExpert: Shoppers can't afford to be loyal
August 10, 2008
The Globe and Mail: Shoppers cannot afford to remain loyal, according to retail guru and "true-life sixties-era Mad Man" Don Watt. "They will remain loyal if…
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