All Technology articles – Page 353
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Opinion
How labelling can give retailers the edge
For any football fan, the Holy Grail is going to Wembley. As you can imagine after the emotional highs and lows of watching my team, Cardiff City, get to the Cup Final for the first time since 1927 (even I wasn’t around then), I was not thrilled by the prospect ...
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AnalysisFace facts: using data to maximise sales
A lot of retailers already have the data they need to help maximise sales, but they don’t necessarily know how to use it. Joanna Perry reports.
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News
Confetti gives thumbs-up to e-marketing
Confetti has implemented an e-mail marketing system from Neolane after a successful three month trial.
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Game adopts system to sort online queries
Game Group is to implement a system to handle all inbound e-mails from its customers.
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TK Maxx to use data to tackle shrinkage
Discount retailer TK Maxx is to roll out a data-mining system to identify fraudulent activity and process errors.
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Opinion
Just browsing
The technology world is buzzing after Google launched an internet browser yesterday. Some suspect that the application, called Chrome, is just the beginning of Google’s ambitions to develop its own web-based operating system.
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Analysis
Right skills, right place?
Retailers argue that it is difficult to recruit and retain the range of skills they need within their IT departments. But is turning to outsourcers really the answer? Joanna Perry reports.
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Opinion
Full of eastern promise
For several years, large technology vendors have warned that retailers in the emerging economies would soon be leapfrogging their Western peers when it comes to their use of technology.
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News
Roxy goes live with European e-tail venture
Female surf brand Roxy, owned by Quiksilver, has launched a European e-commerce site.
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NewsSupermarkets deny introducing compulsory fuel pre-payments
Supermarkets have refuted claims that consumers could soon find themselves having to enter a payment card at their garages’ fuel pumps before they fill up.
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Phones 4U to outsource IT and streamline back office
Phones 4U has confirmed that it will transfer 90 per cent of its IT department to an outsourcing firm.
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Nectar launches music download store
Nectar has today launched a music download service allowing cardholders to redeem loyalty points for digital music.
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Analysis
A Woman's Touch
Female-led categories are netting the highest growth rates online, so should web sites be adapted to suit how women shop? Joanna Perry finds out.
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News
Topshop implements call-forward system at flagship to beat queues
Topshop’s Oxford Circus flagship store has gone live with a call-forward system to minimise queues for customers.
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Scotts to speed up its order processing
Catalogue specialist Scotts & Co is to implement an order-processing system from Kewill to support its direct dispatch business model.
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Vodafone to up service with raft of technology initiatives
Vodafone is working on several IT projects to help its retail teams improve customer service.
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Opinion
Enemy at the gate?
The results of the National Gateway Security Survey released this morning show that securing networks against external attacks is still the top priority for most companies, despite evidence clearly highlighting the continuing risk of internal attacks.
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Analysis
Family affair
With his technology nous, Scott Weavers-Wright makes the ongoing development of niche multichannel retailer Kiddicare look like child’s play. Joanna Perry visits his new superstore.
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News
Kiddicare to go live with social networking tool
Multichannel retailer Kiddicare plans to launch social networking facilities within the next six months as part of a radical plan to let consumers decide how they navigate its site.
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Wickes gives thumbs up to web review tool
Wickes says it is happy with the volume of feedback from a ratings and reviews service it added to its web site four months ago.