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Major Retailer Tests Robots for Blind Shoppers
One large national retailer has started quietly testing a university-created robot designed to help visually impaired consumers navigate store…
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E-Commerce’s Tween Years
Little E-Commerce is turning 11 years old this year and, like its human counterparts, this is an awkward part…
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When Retailers Can’t Afford to Be Strategic
There are tons of practical definitions of how using technology in retail is strategic versus tactical. One definition we’re…
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Overseas POS Sales, Linux Potential Growing
Point-of-sale terminal shipments grew about 8 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa last year compared with a…
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Companies Find Workarounds for RFID Roadblocks
Retailers and consumer goods manufacturers experimenting with RFID are still seeing higher-than-expected error rates, but they are starting to…
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Retailers Facing Critical IT Security Deadline
Hoping to at least slow down the wave of electronic fraud threatening retailers, a group of major credit card…
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Don’t Mess Around with Good Acronyms
The high-tech industry in general—and retail IT is certainly no exception—loves acronyms. The more obtuse, the better. Engineers, designers…
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Retail Apps Drove the Retek Buyout
When Oracle bought retail-software specialist Retek last month, it learned a $670-million lesson about the new importance of retail…
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Winn-Dixie CIO: Bankruptcy Has Its Advantages
When the $10 billion 1,000-store Winn-Dixie grocery chain went Chapter 11 (bankruptcy reorganization) on Feb. 21, the initial employee…
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The Rebirth of a Dead E-Commerce Site
Back in May 1999, near the height of the dot-com insanity, one of a host of media darlings was…