SmartStores
The future of retail
How smart can MetroCards become?
Use your MetroCard to buy coffee, groceries or gas. This could be the future when the MTA introduces a no-swipe smart card system, which is expected by 2014. New MTA chief Jay Walder helped create London’s popular no-contact Oyster card and is looking to create a variation of it here. There are a lot of [...]
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Shopping with the Smart Cart: DigInfo
Fujitsu have upgraded their Smart Cart system using the latest in wireless technology. Using the IC chip within a mobile phone as a customer loyalty card, the system can display a range of personalized information. It can also display the carts location in the store and using RFID technology keep a record of the items [...]
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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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Unitech RH767
The RH767 is a Windows CE 5.0-based multi-tag HF or UHF RFID and bar code reader. It can read both EPC Gen 1 and Gen 2 RFID tags and comes with embedded RFID middleware for easy integration. Like the Unitech PA966 with which it shares the design and most tech specs, the RH767 uses the [...]
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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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Can RFID Survive the “Internet of Things”?
Is the concept of the “Internet of Things” hindering RFID deployment? It’s a grand vision: everything in the world talking to every other thing in the world. A frozen meal communicating with the refrigerator, microwave and automated shopping list; clothes giving instructions to a washing machine and dryer and consulting with an artificial intelligence fashion [...]
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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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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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Samsung develops RFID chip for mobile handsets
Samsung Electronics has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip it hopes will turn mobile phones into more useful tools to tell people about the products and services they want. Samsung’s principal innovation in this area has been to design an RFID reader chip that can read different types of RFID tags. Normally, it takes [...]
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