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NCR retail tech rolls out in UK supermarket chain

January 16, 2014

NCR Corp. announced that the U.K. supermarket chain Morrisons has deployed NCR software, self-checkout and scanner solutions throughout a new lab store in Preston, U.K.

Morrison's chose NCR's Retalix 10 software suite to improve customer engagement and provide a flexible platform for Morrisons to roll out new promotions, channels and retail strategies, according to a news release from NCR. In addition, Morrisons has also deployed NCR SelfServ Checkout with the RealScan 78 Hybrid scanner and scale solution. Modified NCR SelfServ Checkout solutions are also being deployed as kiosk order-points for customers to pre-order food and beverages for collection at the in-store restaurant.

"Tech-savvy consumers are directly influencing the way that we interact with them, so we must respond accordingly," Adrian Stanbury, interim CIO at Morrisons, said in the announcement. "The in-store experience remains important, but increasingly important is matching the variety of consumer engagement tools with the growing, always-on mobile population. To achieve this we required a proven technology partner with a hardware-enabled, software-driven offering that could quickly and effectively implement appropriate solutions."

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