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Smart Handheld System for Independent Retailers
McLane, a leading supply chain services company, today announced early testing for a ‘smart handheld’ system tailored for use by independent grocery and convenience store retailers. This in-store ordering solution, called Smart Handheld for Independents (SHHi), gives small chains the same capabilities to manage their physical inventories and order placements that large chain operations have [...]
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Navy Smart Store animation
Animation/simulation of automated shipboard distribution and storage for the US Navy.
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Smart label company acquired
Nashua, whose Label Products Division is a leading converter and supplier of RFID smart labels, was acquired by Cenveo in a $44 million deal that was announced this morning. Cenveo is a $2 billion graphics communications company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Source: marketwire.com
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Camera phones to function as sales assistants
Avery Dennison and Scanbuy, Inc. Introduce Mobile-Merchandising Solution a technology that uses 2D barcode technology to enable camera phones to function as in-store sales assistants. The solution, which will be marketed by Avery Dennison through its worldwide network of service bureaus, ticketing centers and sales offices, connects the company’s line of retail labels with Scanbuy’s ScanLife(TM) [...]
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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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Future Store Demo
Video of the services that Future Store in Germany offers.
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E-shopping from anywhere?
With advances in RFID and smart technologies, stores will become smart stores and customers will be smart shoppers. At the same time e-shopping will also make great strides and it begs the question as to whether one will ultimately prevail or will retail be a combination of the two? One of the barriers for e-shopping [...]
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Smart Shopping
Ed Hill from Intel’s Embedded Communication Group shows a internet-connected kiosk and cash register for retail stores. These could help shoppers find exactly what they didn’t know they were looking for, order items, and have them shipped from the store, and even pay using their smart phone.
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100 billion new computers
RFID technology will be used in billions of things in our world – and these tiny chips will also be fused to brain tissue.
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