General Retail Technology News

Retail IT and technology news articles comprising case studies, product information, opinion articles, reports, new contract wins and product launches. The site hosts information from trade associations, government departments, research analysts and the vendor community. These articles are about specific industry IT solutions and topics relating to how improvements and efficiency gains can be made by the use of information technology in-store and in the retail supply chain. All topics are covered in these articles which include Mobile Computing, RFID, Automatic Identification/Datacapture (AIDC), Printing & Labelling, EPoS systems, Kiosk TechnologySurveillance & Security, Internet Retailing, Retail Supply Chain Management, Digital Signage, through to current news,informed opinion articles and key events on the retail calendar.

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Sato to demonstrate labelling, identification & traceability solutions at CFIA 2011

1 Sato to demonstrate labelling, identification & traceability solutions at CFIA 2011

For those working in the fast-moving and competitive food industry, Sato provides a range of solutions that have been created to make labelling, identifying and tracing food goods an easy and efficient process.

Luxury retailer Radley + Co deploys FalconStor Continuous Data Protector for both backup and disaster recovery

2 Luxury retailer Radley + Co deploys FalconStor Continuous Data Protector for both backup and disaster recovery

FalconStor Software, Inc. has announced that London-based luxury retailer Radley + Co has deployed FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) to provide both disaster recovery (DR) and backup services.

Caff Nero drives customer advocacy with Empathica

3 Caff Nero drives customer advocacy with Empathica

Caff Nero has demonstrated its commitment to listening to their customers by partnering with Empathica to create a customer experience management (CEM) programme.

eCommerce sites urged to clean up content before Google's 'Panda' goes global

4 eCommerce sites urged to clean up content before Google's 'Panda' goes global

Hot at its heels of a recent algorithm update to combat duplicate content, Google has followed up with "Panda", another algorithm change that hits purveyors of "low quality content."

Vista Retail Support nominated for Venture Capital-Backed Management Team of the Year

5 Vista Retail Support nominated for Venture Capital-Backed Management Team of the Year

Vista Retail Support has been nominated for the Venture Capital-Backed Management Team of the Year in the BVCA Portfolio Company Awards 2011.

Report highlights need for e-retailers to communicate with customers

6 Report highlights need for e-retailers to communicate with customers

The latest Snow Valley report highlights the need for improved real-time communication between e-retailers, their delivery companies and the recipients of goods ordered online, to allay consumer fears around home deliveries.

Ventura develops telecoms solution to enhance retail call centre operations

7 Ventura develops telecoms solution to enhance retail call centre operations

One of the UK's leading call centre operators for the mail order industry has helped develop a new telecoms solution in the latest stage of a longstanding partnership with TalkTalk Business.

Online retail group JustShops goes social

8 Online retail group JustShops goes social

JustShops, a collection of speciality e-commerce pet stores, is to add social commerce to all of its online stores with Reevoo.

Sam McCauley Chemists selects K3 Retail to give its customers even more choice

9 Sam McCauley Chemists selects K3 Retail to give its customers even more choice

Sam McCauley Chemists, the 80m Irish health, beauty pharmacy chain with stores across Southern Ireland, has selected K3 Retail to help it drive its multichannel retail strategy forward, developing new sales channels and focusing on customer engagement.

Waitrose trials in store printing of tickets successfully

10 Waitrose trials in store printing of tickets successfully

Waitrose has announced that a live trial in its Byers Road Glasgow store of the In Branch Printing solution from Episys has been successful and that the daily ticket batches will continue to be printed locally in the branch.

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