All Technology articles – Page 346
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Fat Face enhances merchandise processes
Fat Face has halved the time taken to do stock grading and allocation after going live with an upgraded version of Prologic’s CIMS software.
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Tesco Direct to introduce customer reviews
Tesco Direct has signed a deal enabling shoppers to review its products online.
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AnalysisMultichannel debate: On the pulse
Retailers’ multichannel strategies may have come a long way but there are still plenty of challenges. Joanna Perry joins some of the UK’s top e-tail directors to find out what their new priorities are
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Halfords rolls out signage system to Poland
Car accessories retailer Halfords has extended its use of Episys’ Retail Enterprise Suite to its first store in Poland.
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Morrisons ploughs £6m into voice picking system for warehouse staff
Morrisons is to install one of the largest voice picking systems in the world, in a deal worth more than 6m.
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Argos email campaign lifts customer review response
Argos has generated a massive volume of customer reviews after running an email campaign in January to encourage customers to provide feedback on the products they had recently purchased.
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Snow shows the web is a lifeline for consumers
The snow of early this week highlighted just how important the internet has become to society. Retailers should take every opportunity they get to benefit from this.
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Google glitch temporarily halts access to all e-commerce sites
Many internet surfers could have been forgiven for thinking the whole internet was broken on Saturday, after a problem with Google left users unable to access any internet sites.
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AnalysisCarpetright's Ian Woosey: Invest to impress
Carpetright poured money into its IT when times were good. Now the economy has turned, IT chief Ian Woosey plans to use the investment to maximum effect.
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Next ups fashion profile with online TV platform
Next has launched Next TV online to promote its fashion credentials to its web customers.
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Plenty to do in retail IT
Retail IT departments can pay for themselves many times over, so a recession is the worst time to try and save money by making IT staff cuts.
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Tie Rack takes its stocktaking system mobile
Tie Rack has introduced mobile computers to its stores to assist with stocktaking.
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T-Mobile gathers customer feedback by text message
T-Mobile is polling hundreds of thousands of its customers each week using SMS after introducing a system from Fizzback.
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Figleaves rethinks website infrastructure for relaunch
Figleaves has set up a second data centre and created a virtualised server and storage infrastructure to support the launch of its new web platform.
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Sainsbury's trials in-store mobile phone charging service
Sainsbury’s is to trial a mobile phone charging service in its stores.
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John Lewis beta tests Cisco green networking system
John Lewis has participated in a beta testing phase for Cisco networking technology that can help cut power consumption of IT.
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Marks & Spencer to roll out SAP Retail with help from IBM
Marks & Spencer is to introduce a set of applications from SAP Retail to its business to reduce costs and improve operating efficiencies.
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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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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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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.