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Contactless 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 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…
read nowKeeping your source code safe
February 20, 2006
Business 2.0: Three years ago Trans World Entertainment, which owns the Coconuts and Wherehouse music chains, bought 12,000 listening kiosks for its stores.
read nowKiosks gaining traction with U.S.-based retailers
February 19, 2006
ePaynews: Retailers can use kiosk installations to attract multichannel shoppers by luring customers who use the Web to research intending purchases into…
read nowApple and the future of video rental
February 16, 2006
WebProNews: This commentary on the future of video rental imagines a video store where boxed discs and tapes have vanished, replaced by a row of kiosks "where…
read nowIBM previews 17-inch version of Anyplace Kiosk
February 15, 2006
ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM Retail Store Solutions announced in a news release it is previewing IBM Anyplace Kiosk models with integrated 17-inch infrared touchscreens.
read nowZoom Systems looks to expand its automated retail centers
February 15, 2006
Denver Post: After deploying about 100 of its futuristic automated retail centers - which dispense everything from iPods to PlayStations - Zoom Systems is…
read nowGiant stores to offer DVD kiosks
February 14, 2006
Gazette.net: Giant Food stores throughout the mid-Atlantic region will offer automated DVD rental kiosks, with each kiosk able to hold more than 500 DVDs, from…
read nowSanity Music offers music kiosks
February 14, 2006
News.com.au: Sanity Music, through the Sanity, HMV and Virgin stores, recently opened music kiosks where customers can pick 74 minutes of music from their…
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