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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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Tesco customers shop from iPhone
UK grocery giant Tesco is developing a mobile application to allow customers to manage their shopping though Apple’s iPhone.The new software will be produced to work with Apple’s iPhone, allowing users to search products by category or through simple text search, and to manage their shopping basket through the Apple phone.Source: Sky News
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SmartShopIt.com Adds Smart Compare Feature
SmartShopIt.com releases its Smart Compare feature that provides valuable nutrition and price comparisons for grocery products nationwide. SmartShopIt.com is a free site that helps its members eat healthier, shop more effectively, and save money at the grocery store. They have incorporated a new Smart Compare feature which helps their members by allowing them to easily [...]
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Polaris Retail launches Smart Store for SMEs
Polaris Retail Infotech Ltd. (PRIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Software Lab Limited, has announced the launch of Smart Store, a retail software product for small retail businesses. Smart Store is the first packaged retail software for the small retail segment.Smart Store will help retailers to automate vendor, purchase and stock management functions, maintain [...]
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InSync Software & IBM to improve food safety
InSync Software,has announced it is licensing software from IBM. InSync will integrate the IBM software into its food safety and asset-management products. Under the licensing agreement, InSync Software will offer IBM’s InfoSphere Traceability Server software as part of its food safety solutions for customers worldwide. IBM’s software is compatible with EPCglobal’s Electronic Product Code Information [...]
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NTT combines Java & RFID, for loyalty cards
NTT Communications has begun trials of a high-tech alternative to loyalty cards that promises to simplify their use. Loyalty cards are big business and are often handed out to customers when they have made a purchase. Consequently, people end up with wallets stuffed with too many cards. When cell phone carriers began rolling out electronic [...]
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Nokia Announces App ‘Smart Store’
Nokia kicks off the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Bacelona with the announcement of the Ovi Store, an application store that blends media with social networking and location-based services, akin to Google’s Latitude application. Ovi already boasts partners such as Facebook, MySpace and game publisher Electronic Arts. Nokia Executive Vice President Tero Ojanperä used a [...]
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SmartStore Helps Mobile Operators
Mobinex, in cooperation with Turkcell Teknoloji, announced SmartStore solution for mobile operators to enable delivery and management of applications on mobile phones. Mobinex and Turkcell Teknoloji combined forces to provide an innovative mobile application storefront technology; SmartStore, which will help operators to increase their revenues from application downloads. The integrated offering will benefit Mobinex’s user [...]
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Shopping with Google Android
ShopSavvy, Barcode Scanner, and CompareEverywhere are three free shopping applications for Google Android poised to help you find the best deals in town and online. At their core, they’re nearly identical, using the phone’s camera to auto-focus on a barcode. That barcode is then matched to a product using an open source decoding library, ZXing, [...]
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Smartphones & smartstores
The mobile phone will inevitably be an important component for smartstores. Stores that in build intelligence in their infrastructure using RFID with hardware such as smartshelves and smartcarts will need to embrace smartphones to take full advantage for servicing their customers. If customers are carrying around a communications device that can display information, images, and [...]
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