Retail News & Media
European card payments continue growth
March 16, 2006
ePaynews: By 2009, 747 million payment cards will be in issue in Europe, and will be used for 39.4 billion transactions at a total value of EUR 3.2 trillion…
read nowImproving usability drives customers to self-service
by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance
Companies increasingly want to move customer transactions to a self-service channel, and according to a new report from Forrester Research, usability…
read nowWinners of 2006 DIGI Awards announced
March 15, 2006
SEATTLE - The Digital Signage Group, a digital signage consulting and project management company, announced the winners of the second annual DIGI Awards, which…
read nowSignifi launches Q-Station kiosk
March 13, 2006
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Signifi Solutions Inc. has announced its QuickTunes and QuickMobile self-service entertainment kiosks. The two new offerings run on the…
read nowHP enters photo kiosk market
by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance
Photo kiosks are one of the great self-service success stories - and computing giant HP wants a piece of the action. The company recently unveiled two…
read nowMobile POS gets sales, customer satisfaction moving upward
March 12, 2006
Paul Vogt of Zebra Technologies examines several applications for MPOS systems, and how they can make a big impact on a retailer's bottom line.
read nowContactless payments will benefit vending market
March 9, 2006
ePaynews: Contactless payments in the U.S. are finding synergies with new self-service technologies and the card associations' moves to push low-dollar cash…
read nowSelf-checkout gains traction in U.K.
March 8, 2006
ePaynews: Self-checkouts are moving up U.K. retailers' priority lists, with grocery chain Tesco now operating units in about 285 stores and Asda expecting to…
read nowPay By Touch launches first U.K. implementation
March 8, 2006
OXFORD, U.K. - Pay By Touch, provider of biometric authentication, personalized rewards and payment solutions, announced in a news release the launch of its…
read nowTarget revamps in-store TV network
March 8, 2006
Chain Store Age: Target Co. is among the retailers revamping their advertising with an in-house TV network. The discount retailer recently completed the…
read nowCanadians prefer stores with self-service technology
March 6, 2006
Digital Home: According to a recent Ipsos Reid study, when given a choice, 56 percent of Canadians would choose a store that offered self-service technologies…
read nowJCPenney opens `pop-up' store, begins new marketing campaign
March 2, 2006
USA Today: JCPenney begins its biggest marketing effort in 104 years today, including a massive "pop-up" store at One Times Square in New York, where visitors…
read nowHacker cracks Kinko's prepaid card
March 1, 2006
PC Magazine: A security hole in a common technology used to manage prepaid store cards could let malicious hackers and other criminal groups bilk FedEx Kinko's…
read nowGermany marks 5 millionth self-checkout customer
February 28, 2006
DUSSELDORF - Almost three years after the launch of the country's first self-checkouts at Real SB-Warenhaus GmbH, 5 million consumers have used the fast lane…
read nowHealthnotes launches Healthnotes Connect
February 27, 2006
PORTLAND, Ore. - Healthnotes Inc. announced in a news release the availability of Healthnotes Connect, a comprehensive in-store merchandising and marketing…
read nowStoreNext, mCosm offer self-service suite for grocers
February 27, 2006
PLANO, Texas - StoreNext Retail Technologies LLC announced an agreement with mCosm LLC to offer a suite of self-service applications to independent grocers.
read nowHome Depot sees big benefits from self-service
February 27, 2006
Business Week: Riding a housing and home-improvement boom, Home Depot sales have soared, from $46 billion in 2000, the year chief executive Bob Nardelli took…
read nowSelf-checkout and the customer relationship
by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance
As more companies turn to kiosks to lower labor costs and increase checkout time, the question lingers: Does this hurt the relationship with the customer?
read nowCoinstar in talks with Wal-Mart
February 22, 2006
King County (Washington) Journal: Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, is set to test Coinstar's coin-counting kiosks at 100 of its stores this quarter. If…
read nowCASE STUDY: General Motors tests kiosks to gather car-buyer leads
February 20, 2006
Last year General Motors decided to junk their paper-based lead generation systems completely in favor of electronic kiosks at autoshows and summertime events…
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