All Technology articles – Page 358
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Metro relocates test site for Future Store
Metro has unveiled the latest testing ground for its Future Store Initiative at a Real hypermarket in Toenisvorst, Germany.
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Screwfix adds feedback tool to site
Screwfix has rolled out customer ratings and reviews to all 18,000 products in its online store.
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Opinion
Keeping up with the kids
Staying in touch with the youth market is more about taking their pulse than trying to wow them with gadgets. Or so says Rip Curl Europe chief executive Olivier Cantet, who Retail Week caught up with yesterday at an event on the beach outside Barcelona appropriately.
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First port of call
The gloomy market conditions mean that store systems have never been more critical. Joanna Perry finds out how retailers are keeping them up and running
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Tesco to save £10 million with private mobile network
Tesco expects to save 8 million to 10 million a year with the creation of an innovative telecommunications network for the group’s UK and international operations.
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Luxury online sales to soar
The sale of luxury items online is set to rocket in the next five years.
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Sharing the wealth
Affiliate marketing – loved by many retailers for the high return on investment that it provides – is starting to be superseded by the power of the people.
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Sony adds an interactive touch to its windows
Sony is the latest technology retailer to add an interactive display to its store windows.
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Direct Wines picks international IT
Direct Wines is preparing to go live with a Microsoft-based IT platform for its US business.
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Macy’s rolls out iPod vending machines
US department store chain Macy’s has rolled out vending machines for consumer electronics to 400 stores.
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Ann Summers launches new-look web site
Ann Summers has relaunched its web site following the completion of a development project that has been running since late 2006.
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D&A links its stores for SAP system roll-out
Dollond & Aitchison has gone live with a wide area network in preparation for the roll-out of SAP systems to its stores.
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Play.com reveals first phase of site revamp
Play.com has revealed that the redesign of its web site is only the beginning of a phase of planned development work.
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Analysis
She’s the one
Women represent less than a fifth of the IT workforce, and correcting the gender imbalance could pave the way for a whole new culture, writes Alison Clements
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Change is a good thing
Play.com and Ann Summers both unveiled new-look web sites at the end of last week.
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Analysis
Through the looking glass
Shop windows that have been turned into interactive displays are the latest way of grabbing passing shoppers’ attention. Joanna Perry goes to sample a couple in London’s West End
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Tesco supplier management simplified by RollStream
Tesco has halved the time taken to set up new suppliers of not-for-resale goods and services.
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Mobile technology hits mainstream
The majority of UK retailers are now using mobile technology to improve store and supply chain productivity, according to retail business process consultancy Martec’s UK IT in Retail Report 2008/9, produced in partnership with Torex.
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Vodafone launches staff mobile intranet
Vodafone Retail is revolutionising store communications with an intranet service that is accessible via its employees’ mobile phones.