Marketing show heavy on innovation

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

Fresh ideas from the In-Store Marketing Expo in Las Vegas.

Smart carts coming to Food Lion

November 18, 2008

Progressive Grocer: Food Lion banner Bloom plans to deploy interactive touchscreen computer consoles on the shopping carts at its Fort Mill, N.C. store to…

Sephora chooses RedPrairie for warehouse management

November 18, 2008

MILWAUKEE — RedPrairie Corp. announced today its Warehouse Management solution is running in cosmetics retailer Sephora's new Salt Lake City distribution…

Autologic, NCR bring RFID to the car dealership

November 17, 2008

DAYTON, Ohio — NCR Corporation and Toronto-based Autologic Innovations have partnered to offer the automotive dealership industry in Canada an innovative…

HP turnkey POS aimed at smaller retailers

November 17, 2008

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP is making it even easier for small and independent retailers to purchase POS solutions for their businesses with today's introduction…

Digital signage increases revenue by 50 percent for Virgin

November 11, 2008

LAS VEGAS — Epson, a supplier of value-added point of sale (POS) solutions, announced that Virgin Megastores, its showcase customer, has recapped the results…

Escalate integrates with Where 2 Get It for 'buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere' retail

November 11, 2008

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Where 2 Get It announced its partnership with Escalate Retail, a company that offers software that simplifies the challenge of cross-channel…

Amazon sending daily deals to mobile phones, with instant-buy feature

November 11, 2008

SEATTLE — Amazon.com announced it is now allowing customers to sign up to receive its "Daily Deal" offers via SMS.

Thomson bringing interactive merchandising to ISME

November 9, 2008

LAS VEGAS — Thomson's Premier Retail Networks Inc. (PRN), provider of digital media solutions at retail, announced details of a new interactive multi-product…

FutureVision Gallery coming to In-Store Marketing Expo

November 9, 2008

DALLAS, Texas — Reflect Systems, a provider of digital signage software and services, will present new capabilities for interactivity and rich-media user…

Self-checkout adds human touch

In-person assistance combines with self-service convenience.

VeriFone launches contactless pinpad for self-service POS

November 5, 2008

PARIS — VeriFone Holdings, Inc., has introduced a contactless version of its popular PINpad 1000SE, further expanding the industry's broadest line of…

HANDS-ON VIDEO: Amazon Windowshop

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

November 5, 2008

NFC mobile phone payments come to Latin America

November 4, 2008

PARIS — Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech announced that its provisioning software for Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payments is being used in the first…

Connecting with conversational marketing

From "friending" to "tweeting" — social networking at retail.

National Grocers Association endorses Pan-Oston tech

November 2, 2008

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Pan-Oston, a designer, developer and manufacturer of retail checkout products, including lanes, counters and self-checkout solutions, as…

Hardware chain adds customer behavior analytics from Quantivo

November 2, 2008

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Quantivo, a provider of customer behavior analytics technology, announced that Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) has deployed Quantivo Retail…

Helius releases PowerPoint plug-in for digital signage content

November 2, 2008

LINDON, Utah — Helius, a Hughes company, announced the availability of MediaAuthor 2.0, a software application that works as a plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint…

Best Buy analyzing shopper traffic with Verint

October 28, 2008

MELVILLE, N.Y. — Verint Systems Inc. announced that its Nextiva Retail Traffic Analysis solution is being used by Best Buy Co. Inc. as part of a program…

Baby food giant enhances multichannel CRM

October 28, 2008

CHICAGO — Sword ciboodle, provider of customer-oriented business software and services, announced that it is working with U.K. baby food giant Nutricia Ltd. to…