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Will Apple tarnish brand with Target 'store-within-a-store' outlets?

Posted January 6, 2012 - 2:58 pm

Apple reportedly plans to begin putting smaller Apple Stores in Target retail outlets. Good or bad idea?
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Barnes & Noble considers separating Nook e-book business

Posted January 5, 2012 - 2:43 pm

Bookseller Barnes & Noble warns that full-year losses will be worse than expected and said it is considering separating its Nook e-book business from the retail operation.
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Apple fanboys, t-shirt traitors walk amongst you!

Posted December 12, 2011 - 3:54 pm

Apple doesn't give away t-shirts at its store openings so that avaricious imposters can flip them on eBay.
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Research group gives new meaning to window shopping (video)

Posted September 5, 2011 - 7:57 pm

At IFA in Berlin the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute showed its interactive shop window that lets customers use gestures to buy or learn more about products.
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John Lewis deploys cloud-based appointments system

Posted August 14, 2011 - 2:07 am

John Lewis is deploying a cloud computing-based appointment booking system across all its department stores.
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DOJ: VeriFone must divest Hypercom point-of-sale unit to complete buy

Posted August 4, 2011 - 1:51 pm

The Department of Justice said today that in order to complete its acquisition of Hypercom, VeriFone must divest Hypercom's U.S. point-of-sale (POS) terminals business to Gores Group private equity firm.
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Best Buy shares jump as poor Q1 numbers top low expectations

Posted June 14, 2011 - 10:51 am

The top electronics retailer in the U.S. continues to struggle.
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Crutchfield sees benefits from speedy mobile checkout

Posted June 3, 2011 - 5:10 am

Crutchfield, an electronics and auto stereo retailer, has found that the easier a smartphone payment technology is for buyers to use, the greater the number of sales.
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Apple takes the wraps off new retail efforts

Posted May 23, 2011 - 8:56 am

If I asked most of my friends what they were up to early on a Sunday morning, I imagine answers would range from “having brunch” to “going to church” or “I was asleep—why on Earth are you calling me before 1PM?” Admittedly, I usually practice similar habits, but on this particular Sunday morning. This Sunday saw the launch of what bloggers have taken to calling “Apple Store 2.0,” Apple’s revamped retail experience.
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Apple keeps on giving lessons in retail

Posted May 22, 2011 - 4:44 pm

If you shop in the U.S., you’re likely familiar with the Nordstrom brand. It’s not just another department store: It’s a business with legendary customer support.
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Retail RFID initiatives are flourishing

Posted May 20, 2011 - 9:30 am

With more than a dozen US based retail RFID pilots and/or rollouts underway, many suppliers have gotten on the bandwagon to gain early competitive advantage.
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Boden sends online sales higher with new CRM

Posted April 29, 2011 - 4:13 am

Online and mail-order clothing retailer Boden is aiming to boost website revenue worldwide with software from Autonomy.
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Visa, Gap use text messages to mobile phones for promotions

Posted April 21, 2011 - 3:27 pm

Credit-card company Visa and clothing retailer Gap are using (SMS) text messages to deliver promotions and discounts to Gap customers' mobile phones.
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Retailers take note - IBM's 'Smarter Commerce'

Posted March 21, 2011 - 9:45 am

On March 14, IBM announced "Smarter Commerce," a strategic initiative that addresses the surging market for ecommerce solutions that take advantage of the convergence of a number of disruptive software and hardware technologies.
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Apple stores: Crazy customers and homeless webcasters

Posted February 18, 2011 - 12:21 pm

What happens in the secret world of Apple stores? Apparently a lot of things: evil customers, homeless webcasts, and drug dealers--at least, according to an anonymous Apple store employee who recently dished to Popular Mechanics .
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What Wal-Mart buys, America eats: How IT sets the table

Posted January 24, 2011 - 11:59 am

Wal-Mart's IT assets are critical to its healthy food initiative and its expansion of small-footprint stores into urban America. Here's a quick rundown by application class and infrastructure.
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Microsoft fights 'Apple Store,' as generic; doesn't mention 'Windows'

Posted January 12, 2011 - 1:27 pm

Microsoft defends efforts to privatize public words. Except Windows(tm), Arc(tm), Freelancer(tm), Fluent(tm), Groove(tm), Natural(tm)...
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Aping Apple in retail leaves Microsoft looking like an old-man shoe store

Posted January 5, 2011 - 4:07 pm

Microsoft is set to underwhelm more shoppers as it prepares to open its eighth retail store, across the aisle from an Apple store in a Seattle mall.
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Tricks, traps of holiday gift cards: Worst hidden pitfalls

Posted December 22, 2010 - 9:51 pm

For last-minute holiday shoppers, gift cards make convenient (if impersonal) presents. Retailers also love gift cards, which recipients often lose or forget to use. According to a recent Consumer Reports survey, 27 percent of gift card recipients this year haven’t redeemed one or more of their cards, up from 19 percent a year ago. And financial analyst firm TowerGroup estimates that consumers forfeited $8 billion last year due to lost, expired, or unredeemed gift cards.
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5 Cyber Monday websites for finding great deals

Posted November 29, 2010 - 11:15 am

If you missed out on all the shopping deals on Black Friday, don't sweat it because more deals are coming your way, thanks to the National Retail Federation's annual Cyber Monday promotional event.
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Amazon leads Black Friday online spending increase

Posted November 29, 2010 - 9:21 am

U.S. online shoppers spent $648 million, 9% more than last year, on Black Friday, the official kickoff to the lucrative holiday shopping season, online researcher comScore reports.
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Retailers Going Green, But Customers Remain Apathetic

Posted November 22, 2010 - 9:59 am

You have to feel bad for most retailers: The global economy tanked in 2008, sales plummeted and many well-known chains went out of business. Today, shoppers have come to expect half-price sales on nearly everything in stock.
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How Retailers Are Using Location-Based Services

Posted November 4, 2010 - 8:52 pm

By integrating Foursquare and other location-based services with enterprise applications, companies can make loyalty programs more effective.
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Targeted attacks rise, retail sector under siege

Posted October 26, 2010 - 1:15 pm

Targeted attacks via fraudulent and dangerous e-mail are on the rise, according to a Symantec report published today.
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RFID Tags Arrive on Store Floor as Retailers Go After ROI

Posted July 29, 2010 - 3:54 pm

For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange journey: Periods of irrational exuberance followed by times of great frustration and confusion; expensive pilot projects riddled with technical, standards-based and cost complexities; and a widespread belief among those retailers or CPG manufacturers that were forced into the RFID universe that it is a technology solution in search of a problem.
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