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Three quarters of businesses fail to conduct credit checks
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
According to recent reports, 73% of companies in the UK fail to carry out a credit check on new customers. This is the most basic form of protection against bad debt and possible business failure, warned business information provider, Equifax.
Tesco appoints supplier onboarding service provider
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Tesco has appointed Inovis, as the service provider for the onboarding of the retailer's grocery and non-food suppliers onto its electronic data interchange (EDI) platform.
HMV makes sound kiosk investment
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
HMV, the UK and Ireland specialist retailer of music, DVD/video, computer games and related products, has introduced self-service kiosks into its stores to improve the overall customer experience.
The kiosks are the result of a deal with payments services company, YESpay its touchscreen kiosk specialist partner, Neo Products UK.
Key e-wallet patent granted in US
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Tyfone, a mobile financial services infrastructure and near field communications (NFC) payments provider, today announced it has been awarded a second patent for its innovations in smart card-based electronic wallet technology.
Akamai reveals new two-second web page response threshold
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Akamai Technologies, web application acceleration and performance management vendor has released key findings from a commissioned study into e-commerce website performance and its correlation with an online shopperÂ’s behaviour.
Wallace Sacks re-launches homewares e-commerce shop
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Wallace Sacks has re-launched a new e-commerce website, designed and built by Screen Pages, using the increasingly popular and sophisticated Magento e-commerce platform. The new e-commerce website has been launched at www.wallacesacks.com.
Magners Irish Cider refreshes supply chain with EDI
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Magners Original Irish Cider, the number-one packaged cider brand in the UK, has announced it has enhanced its supply chain communications with retailers and partners with the TrustedLink and BizConnect solutions from Inovis.
Checkpoint protects House of Fraser against shrink
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
House of Fraser, the High Street department store has installed the latest generation of electronic article surveillance (EAS) anti-theft solutions from leading security and merchandising specialist, Checkpoint Systems. The new Evolve EAS antennae are helping the retailer to reduce theft in two of its largest stores, in Westfield and Bristol.
Pierhouse claims retailers are losing out on traditional PoS
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Retail store staff are spending 10 times longer to organise and display the point of sale (PoS) than head office is allocating, according to marketing management solutions provider, Pierhouse.
Fabergé launch pushes online luxury boundaries
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Fabergé, the iconic jeweller, has created faberge.com, to bring the qualities of its luxury brand to the web with a new online service.
IBM provided business consulting and creative design services to help Fabergé define a new interactive approach and develop technologies that support a selling model for high-value luxury goods on the internet.
Checkpoint protects House of Fraser against shrink
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
House of Fraser, the High Street department store has installed the latest generation of electronic article surveillance (EAS) anti-theft solutions from leading security and merchandising specialist, Checkpoint Systems. The new Evolve EAS antennae are helping the retailer to reduce theft in two of its largest stores, in Westfield and Bristol.
ASDA tunes into customer feedback
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
ASDA has launched a new way to find out what its customers think of its 367 stores, using driveExperience from customer experience management specialist, Empathica.
Stores remain key driver of multichannel customer satisfaction
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company, has announced the results of its annual research into consumer behaviour across retail channels.
The online study conducted by Ipsos MORI and carried out across 1,000 consumers from the UK, France, Germany and Sweden, found that the store remains key to customer satisfaction and can play a role in increasing sales.IC Companys selects GSI Commerce as European e-commerce partner
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
IC Companys, the Denmark-based, multichannel fashion group has entered a long-term partnership with e-commerce solutions provider, GSI Commerce.
IC Companys consists of 11 fashion apparel brands including Peak Performance, InWear, and Matinique, with stores in sixteen countries across Asia, North America and Europe.
The Trafford Centre makes digital signage commitment
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
The Trafford Centre in Manchester - the UK's largest shopping and leisure destination - has agreed new commercial terms for the deployment of 23 new portrait-style digital signage units with Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), in partnership with VMG Global.
Cadbury World digital signage enhances visitor experience
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Cadbury World, one of the largest paid indoor visitor attractions in the UK, has installed a new digital signage solution.
BANK gets staff back into the 'Passion for Fashion'
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
BANK, the leading High Street fashion retailer owned by the JD Sports Fashion Group, has appointed Retail Eyes, specialists in customer experience improvement in the retail, leisure and hospitality sector, to inject some passion and fun back into the way staff engage with customers.
Sears to launch fully interactive, integrated online catalogue
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Sears, the US's 4th largest retailer is launching what it says is the world's first fully interactive, integrated online-only catalogue using digital catalogue technology from Ceros.
Amanda Wakeley announces plans for new e-commerce website
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Since buying back the brand she founded in 1990 earlier this year, Amanda Wakeley's eponymous label has gone from strength to strength, reporting a move from unsustainable loss a few months ago, to profitability in the first ten weeks of taking back the reigns.
Financial management system supports UK pawnbroker's growth
Published 11.12.09 by Retail Technology
Albemarle & Bond, the largest pawnbroker in the UK, is implementing a financial management system with integrated cash flow forecasting, electronic procurement, business intelligence and document management and imaging functionality from COA Solutions.
