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Checkpoint Systems Supports METRO Group’s ”Tag It Easy!”
Checkpoint Systems, Inc, a global leader in shrink management, merchandise visibility, and apparel labeling solutions, today announced the expansion of METRO Group’s RFID “Tag It Easy!” program. This third phase of the program will involve more than 75 Chinese and Indian consumer goods suppliers, in addition to the 100 manufacturers already in the program from [...]
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Internet retailing and the smart store
The Internet has quickly become a meaningful selling channel in its own right, one that is replacing catalogs and is the biggest retail channel besides store based shopping. Technology and lessons from tracking best practices at retail web sites has the potential to enhance store-based shopping. It is inevitable that the distinction between store based [...]
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Future Store Demo
Video of the services that Future Store in Germany offers.
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Wal-Mart – Do-It-Yourself is easier for RFID
Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club division announced a dramatic drop in its compliance penalties for failure to put RFID tags on pallets sent to its distribution centers. Initially, Sam’s said that failure to meet these deadlines would result in modest “chargeback” penalties – $2.00 per pallet initially, and $3.00 per pallet in 2009. Even at these levels, [...]
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Clothing Designer Hopes to become a SmartStore
At its store in Hollola, Finland, women’s clothing designer Naisten Pukutehdas(NP) has extended its RFID system to the sales floor. The company—which sells women’s fashion, marketed under the NP Collection brand, at 500 retail locations in Scandinavia and Russia, as well as in 10 of its own stores—has created what it hopes to be a [...]
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25 Canadian Tire “smart stores” by 2009
To spark sales growth, Canadian Tire is opening “small market” stores designed for smaller towns and testing “smart stores,” which will focus on higher-profit products with improved store organization and display. The company has already opened two of the small market stores and will open two more later this year. It plans to open two [...]
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Smart Info Terminal from Future Store
Interactive terminals and tasting stations turn daily shopping into an experience to savor. Terminals offer additional information like detailed nutritional values, seasonal recipes, and videos. Customers can also check the precise origin of products, breeding methods, and packaging. For quick navigation the Information Terminal is connected to the Everywhere Display –a projector which shows the [...]
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Best Buy dancing to Napster
Since Apple turned the music retail business on its head with the launch of the iPod and iTunes online music store, it has rather set the pace of change in the industry. Sure, many retailers have followed suit and launched their own variations of a digital download store or service, but none have captured the [...]
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Wal-Mart to deploy ‘smart’ network
Wal-Mart is phasing out its current satellite-delivered media network of screens in stores and replacing it with a new digital network. The rollout, to about 300 stores and to all superstores, will be completed in time for the holiday season. The new network is powered by Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, and it allows for [...]
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Smart Self-Service kiosks
STRATHAM, NH, Sep 03, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — NextChoice, the Smart Self-Service(TM) company, today announced that Giant Eagle has taken delivery of its intelligent self-service kiosk ordering system. Powered by new IBM AnyPlace(TM) Kiosks, NextChoice’s flagship NextWave Intelligent Self-Service software suite is allowing customers in more than 30 Giant Eagle GetGo stores to [...]
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