All In-store technology articles – Page 44
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Toys R Us online revamp eases site navigation
Toys R Us has launched the fourth version of its UK website, which has been designed to make it easier for customers to browse and find products.
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Poundland installs laptop data protection
Poundland has installed encryption and back-up software on all of its company laptops to secure the data they contain should they be lost or stolen.
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System change takes shape at Harvey Nichols
Harvey Nichols expects to finish a business intelligence consolidation project it has been working on throughout 2008 by the end of the present financial year.
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Carphone Warehouse staff support tool given the thumbs-up
Carphone Warehouse has declared the roll-out of an application to support its branch managers a success.
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Barclays to issue contactless debit cards
Barclays will begin issuing debit cards with contactless payment technology, and predicts that more than 3 million consumers will be using them by the end of the year.
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OpinionCaution urged on contactless payment adoption
Barclays will soon begin issuing debit cards with contactless payment technology, a move that goes some way towards breaking the chicken-and-egg deadlock of contactless payment adoption.
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Morrisons ploughs on with IT transformation
Morrisons will push ahead with its business and IT transformation programme in 2009, having signed Wipro Retail to assist it with its plans.
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BrightHouse makes appointment to drive business change
BrightHouse has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Simon Mouncer as head of business change and IT.
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Tesco creates tool to gauge the greenness of its stores
Tesco has developed a piece of software to evaluate how environmentally friendly the equipment it uses in stores is.
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Improved efficiency must sometimes lead to job losses
The Prime Minister thinks that further investment in technology will produce economic benefit, but will he stand up for retailers if advancement means that they need less staff?
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Morrisons to automate space planning with Galleria system
Morrisons will begin using a merchandising system from Galleria next year to automate the creation of merchandising plans. Currently the supermarket chain creates these plans manually.
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Contactless payment for all Pret A Manger sites
Pret A Manger is rolling out contactless payment to 171 stores, after an initial trail at seven sites proved a success.
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The VAT rate systems scramble
Whether retailers will have realigned their pricing in time for the VAT change on December 1 remains to be seen and could come down to the emphasis they have put on creating systems that allow business agility.
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AnalysisCost cutting: The lean machine
In these cash-strapped times deep and sustainable cost cutting is the name of the game. Charlotte Hardie looks at how retailers can trim the fat without their service suffering.
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Dolcis revamps store systems under new owner
Dolcis has begun a roll-out of a new store system as part of the IT overhaul taking place to separate it from previous owner Alexon Group.
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Harvey Nichols plans till revamp at Knightsbridge
Harvey Nichols will upgrade ageing till systems at its flagship Knightsbridge store in a deal with DigiPos Systems worth £230,000.
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Microsoft targets big thinking small stores
Bath-based fashion and luxury goods boutique Prey has installed Microsoft’s Retail Management System (RMS), launched only yesterday, with a view to expansion.
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Jarrold controls tills
Independent department store Jarrold has bought a 60-till retail control system from Futuro.It will make sales information more available, allowing the retailer to improve stock availability and extend the automation of stock management to individual store departments.
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Bhs rewards CSC with £80m contract renewal
Bhs has extended its outsourcing agreement with Computer Sciences (CSC) for seven years, in a deal worth £80 million.
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Logo installs EFT system
Womenswear retailer Logo has installed an electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPoS) system from Commedia in its 25-site estate.The system is capable of being upgraded to accept Chip and PIN transactions.Although transactions are authorised directly at the branch, the system also forwards transaction information to the retailer’s head ...