Rent-A-Center signs with Diebold for cash recyclers

January 9, 2008

NORTH CANTON — Rent-A-Center, a rent-to-own company with more than 3,300 stores, has partnered with Diebold Inc. to install seven Diebold Express Cash…

Marketers experimenting with digital signage

January 9, 2008

Promo: Borders is not the only retailer discovering what behemoths like Wal-Mart already know: In-store TV is a smart way to talk to customers. The networks…

IBM unveils new retail software architecture

January 9, 2008

ARMONK, N.Y. — IBM announced the IBM Retail Integration Framework, an enterprise software architecture designed to help retailers accelerate the…

Loungewear retailers targeting tweens

January 9, 2008

Boston Globe: Abercrombie & Fitch will unveil its latest concept store later this month. Called Gilly Hicks Sydney, it's an intimate apparel store aimed…

Circuit City testing smaller stores

January 8, 2008

This Week in Consumer Electronics: Circuit City has seen the future of CE retailing, and it may very well be found in its new store format, The City. The…

Stores use live DJs to lure shoppers

January 7, 2008

Marketplace: Department-store entertainment used to be a guy in a tuxedo tinkling the ivories. But with a stronger focus on young consumers, big retail shops…

NRF to focus on tech beyond the store

Show looks at relationship between retail, emerging technology.

NCR introduces contactless, mobile payment suite for retail

January 3, 2008

DAYTON, Ohio -- NCR Corp., in partnership with ViVOtech, has introduced a suite of contactless payment terminals for the point of sale. These solutions enable…

Tommy Hilfiger Denim launches interactive storefront

January 2, 2008

LONDON — Customers at selected Tommy Hilfiger Denim stores can now join the Hilfiger Hall of Fame by adding their pictures to an interactive storefront…

Top source of retail shrink: employees

January 2, 2008

Progressive Grocer: Retailers suspect that their own employees are the main source of retail shrink, according to a new Retail Systems Research Benchmark…

Kroger, University of Cincinnati testing mobile payments

January 2, 2008

CINCINNATI — The University of Cincinnati announced the launch of a mobile payment program for UC Mobile student clients with merchants on the UC campus and in…

U.S. retail sales rise 14 percent after the holidays

January 2, 2008

Reuters: Post-holiday discounts and shoppers redeeming gift cards helped boost retail sales 14 percent for the last full week of December, according to data…

M-commerce sites raise retail eyebrows

January 1, 2008

Internet Retailer: M-commerce sites and services are popping up, and many e-retailers and other e-commerce players such as comparison shopping sites are…

Apparel brand loyalty 'a thing of the past'

January 1, 2008

Sify: For a brief while, apparel brands seemed to think they could ride on brand equity alone and consumers would lap up anything. Not anymore. With so many…

Airport retail taking off

January 1, 2008

Indianapolis Business Journal: Retailers and restaurateurs have flooded Indianapolis International Airport with letters-of-interest for space in the Midfield…

London jewelry retailer to adopt RFID

December 26, 2007

RFID News: London's Grand Pacaraima Gold Corp. will begin using RFID tags specifically developed for use in jewelry retail stores to cut inventory management…

'Express stores' are new grocery trend

December 26, 2007

Canadian Business: There's a new trend emerging in grocery retailing: the "express" store. These are essentially small-surface grocery stores developed for…

Retailers brace for fiercely competitive 2008

December 26, 2007

The Kansas City Star: The new year is still days away but retailers have already decided how to rock your world in 2008. Expect a fiercely competitive year as…

Dolce & Gabbana's secret: change with the times

December 25, 2007

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are two guys who 22 years ago started with 2 million lira — about $1,500 — in their pockets and…

Independent merchants fight big retailers with selection, service

December 25, 2007

The Columbus Dispatch: This season finds independent retailers across the country dealing with a new set of economic challenges even as they still contend…