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Fake Chinese Apple store renamed Smart Store
The fake, lookalike Apple store in China has been renamed following a crackdown by local officials. Shxb.net has posted news (in Chinese), which sparked international interest following a blog post that revealed its resemblance to Apple’s stores. Gone is the name “Apple Store” which has been replaced with “Smart Store”.
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Mirror lets your reflection try on clothes
Clothes shoppers wanting to experience the 21st-century version of dress-up have until November to try on the new Macy’s Magic Fitting Room in the retail chain’s New York’s Herald Square flagship store. The company is showing off a 72-inch mirror display that enables you to superimpose clothing on your reflection. The mirror features a multitouch [...]
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Wal-Mart to Embed RFID Tags in Clothing
Beginning August 1, men’s blue jeans and underwear sold at Walmart will carry electronic radio identification tags. The company, the world’s largest retailer, insists the devices are crucial to improving the logistics of inventory management, while critics point to the privacy concerns associated with the tags. The markers in question, called radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, [...]
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Store of the Future
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Canadian Tire going smart & basic
The chief executive officer is taking Canadian Tire back to the future. Armed with a new store format, dubbed the “smart store,” he’s focused on improving the basics of customer service – right down to ensuring washrooms are in order – keeping popular products in stock, and cutting spending on store restyling. His engine for [...]
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Canadian Tire Stores Get Smart
Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. yesterday officially introduced its new Smart Store concept to Quebec, an initial $17-million investment. The iconic national automotive and housewares chain has converted five local stores to the format, designed to make them more customer friendly and productive through renovations and reorganization. Company president and chief executive officer Stephen Wetmore was [...]
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Adding the Analytic Dimension to RFID
Earlier this decade, Wal-Mart first required its top 100 suppliers to put radio frequency identification tags on shipping crates and pallets, then extended the mandate to include all suppliers. Thanks to the Wal-Mart mandate, the first wave of serious enterprise RFID deployments are on the books, and the result is a C, maybe a C-, [...]
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Next Generation of Loyalty & Customer Relationship
Unified Grocers, Inc. Introduces Next Generation of Loyalty and Customer Relationship Software to Its Members Through Accelitec | interact Unified Grocers, Inc., one of the largest member-owned grocery cooperatives in the western United States, has begun introducing a next generation software service offered by Accelitec, Inc., to its members. Accelitec | interact is an innovative [...]
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Smarter shopping
NOTHING, you’d think, would be more dynamic or up-to-the-minute than how we buy and sell. From the early Greek agoras to the modern superstore, markets have always been the most sensitive barometers of economic and societal change. However, today’s retail model is struggling. It’s still largely a system built for the realities of an earlier [...]
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RFID & Consumer Electronics
Item-level tagging of Nokia mobile phones and accessories results in cost savings of 25% UPM Raflatac is supplying UHF EPC Gen2 tags to Future Communications Company (FCC) based in the State of Kuwait. FCC is the main distributor of Nokia phones and accessories in Kuwait and runs more than 30 retail stores. The company is [...]
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