All Technology articles – Page 356
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Carpetright to up staff communication
Carpetright will roll out a store communications system to its 550 shops and concessions in the UK and Ireland.
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Halfords adds shopper Q&A function online
Halfords is letting customers ask product questions and answer each other’s on its web site.
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Tesco to deploy staff scheduling to stores
Tesco is to roll out a workforce scheduling system to its stores.
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Up close and personal
Asos wants to tailor its communications to different customers. Marketing boss Hash Ladha tells Joanna Perry how a customer relationship management system will help it meet its aims
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Big Brother goes green
Technology comes in for some stick for allowing people to snoop on others. Whether its e-mail, web monitoring or even CCTV, technology’s use often comes with negative connotations.
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Roll with it
Paper, energy, landfill and even water savings are being made at Sainsbury’s as it rolls out double-sided till receipt printers, finds Joanna Perry
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Fashion Academy to use Oracle package
The retailer-backed Fashion Retail Academy is implementing a buying and merchandising system from Oracle Retail in time for its new academic year.
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JJB speeds up report time with new servers
JJB Sports has reduced the time to produce reports by up to half following an IT infrastructure implementation.
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Richer Sounds extends video demos from web to stores
Richer Sounds is to extend its use of video demonstrations from its web site to its stores.
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Fashion Academy to use Oracle package
The retailer-backed Fashion Retail Academy is implementing a buying and merchandising system from Oracle Retail in time for its new academic year.
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Sainsbury's counts the cost of web crash
Sainsbury’s was back up and running this week, but the supermarket has remained tight-lipped over the “technical glitch” that forced it to suspend its grocery shopping site.
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The message is clear
Consumers are not yet using their mobile phones to do all their shopping, as some forecast, but retailers are still finding them a powerful tool. Joanna Perry investigates
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Retail Solutions: Day One
Much of the retail news right now is doom and gloom. But not at the first day of Retail Solutions yesterday, where there was a little love in the air.
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Fast retailing
Aggressive international expansion was causing headaches for Comptoir des Cotonniers IT director Marc Bernhard. The solution? An EPoS system that could integrate easily and be delivered and managed remotely. Joanna Perry reports
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Beaverbrooks moves to wireless network
Beaverbrooks has installed a wireless network and 3G back-up system across its 62 stores.
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Sainsbury’s site crashes
Sainsbury’s has had to suspend its online grocery business because of a technical fault.
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A credit to internet retailing
On Monday another sign that the internet is the saviour of retail emerged, when leading credit rating agency Moody’s issued a note explaining that it is starting to take internet sales more seriously when it comes to giving retailers a credit rating.
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Solutions Preview – Interactive
Ahead of next week's Retail Solutions show at the Excel Centre in London, why not try out Retail Week's interactive Solutions preview? Click here to begin
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House of Fraser to link suppliers to data pool
House of Fraser is to ask its suppliers to provide their product information through a data synchronisation service.
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Dunelm supplier switch bolsters EPoS support
Dunelm has seen a threefold improvement in EPoS maintenance support since switching suppliers last year.