All Technology articles – Page 344
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Analysis
NRF: Brave New World
After a year of financial turmoil a more humble and socially aware retail industry was on show at this year’s National Retail Federation convention last week. Joanna Perry reports from New York
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Opinion
Retail event cancellation a blow for IT
In some bad news for the retail technology industry, it has been announced that next week’s Retail Business Show exhibition will not be taking place.
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News
New Look refines IT to back growth plan
New Look is poised to go live with the final stages of a project to improve the business processes within its buying and merchandising department.
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Marks & Spencer extends services tie-up for EPoS roll-out
Marks & Spencer is working with Computacenter to improve the time it takes to get new IT systems up and running.
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El Corte Ingles optimises its merchandising
Spain’s largest retailer El Corte Ingl s is in the process of implementing Oracle Retail’s assortment execution system, after going live with merchandise financial planning and price optimisation systems.
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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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Opinion
NRF: Recession creates new rules of retailing
National Retail Federation president and chief executive Tracy Mullin opened the organisation's 98th convention in New York on Sunday with a blunt message to businesses trying to ride out the recession: they need to get real to the new rules of retailing.
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AnalysisDigital strategy: Online advantage
Web discounts have grabbed customer attention over Christmas but exploiting the online world to its fullest could prove make or break in this tough economic climate. Joanna Perry reports
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News
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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Theory introduces store sales data dashboard
International fashion brand Theory is using a sales dashboard called SkyPAD to view product sales performance across its international chain at store level.
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News
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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News
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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Apple ups music download stakes with the removal of DRM
Apple has brokered a deal with the major record labels to offer their music without digital rights management protection on a new version of iTunes called iTunes Plus.
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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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News
Carphone Warehouse gathers data on customer experience
Carphone Warehouse is the latest retailer to work with Fizzback to assess the experience it provides to customers.
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Opinion
2009 retail technology predictions
There are some predictions for next year about technology in retail that are very easy to make. But IT analyst Gartner has been bold with its opinions on how much could change in 2009.
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News
John Lewis to push web merchandising
John Lewis’s online arm has selected a web merchandising system from Omniture to help it ramp up its sales.