Latest retail Stories

Newly-created position to align TCC's North and South American markets and drive growth across grocery, convenience, drugstore and dollar store clients WESTPORT, Connecticut, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TCC, the global leader in retail marketing programs, announces the appointment of Van B. Sapp as president of TCC Americas. Sapp will be responsible for TCC's operations in North and South America, adding capabilities with licensed properties and integrating digital components...

Latest innovation from industry-leading loss prevention exception reporting WESTBORO, Mass., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MICROS-Retail, a division of MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), and leading provider of retail technology for the specialty and general merchandise retail industry, today announced BJ's Wholesale's successful launch of MICROS-Retail's next generation loss prevention and business analytics solution, XBR Ingenium (XBR(i)). As an existing user of MICROS-Retail's...

PLM system provider to present at Red Herring North American Forum. Campbell, CA (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 Centric Software, Inc., has earned a spot as a finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards. The Top 100 is a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures. It represents “the most exciting and promising start-ups and scale-ups” from among a pool of hundreds of candidates across North America, according to Red Herring. Red Herring...

The industry performed well over the past five years due to consumers' mounting affinity for quick and easy online shopping; with the economy continuing along its upward trajectory, consumer demand for discretionary items like jewelry will grow steadily. For these reasons, industry research firm IBISWorld has added a report on the Online Jewelry and Watch Sales industry to its growing industry report collection. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Unlike its brick-and-mortar...

VRP introduces a point of sale touch screen software that eliminates all needs of manual execution in sales management and allots easy access to the company’s sales database. CA, USA (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Visual Retail Plus introduces touch screen point of sale software. The company’s inspiration beyond development of this program is the theme, ‘hands-on-control’. With the touch screen facility, business people can maintain hands-on-control over every segment of their trade. Sales...

Synqera survey finds that consumers in-store shopping is still preferable but online-type customization is needed; finds key to anti-showroom strategies. NEW YORK, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- More than two-thirds of Americans prefer to shop in traditional, brick and mortar stores than online commerce sites, according to a survey conducted by Instant.ly on behalf of Synqera , a global technology startup that uses big data to bring personalized digital experiences to the...

Improves customer experience with mobile POS and enhanced gift card functionality WESTBORO, Mass., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MICROS-Retail, a division of MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), and leading provider of retail technology for the specialty and general merchandise retail industry, today announced Modell's launch of MICROS-Retail's Xstore Point-of-Service (POS), Relate Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and miStore mobile POS. Modell's selected MICROS-Retail...

Upscale clothier chooses Signifi’s Valet SpotShop to expand using automated retail kiosks to sell high end men's fashion. Mississauga, ON (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 Imagine your product attractively displayed in a stylish retail window, not in a store, but an automated retail machine. Quattro Clothiers, a high end menswear shop in the heart of the busiest fashion shopping district in Toronto, has decided that this is the future. Quattro wanted to expand their reach and increase their...

Midwest c-store chain partners with PriceAdvantage to control price changes from POS to the pump COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceAdvantage, a division of Skyline Products, announced today that Family Express, a recognized innovator in c-store retailing, has chosen PriceAdvantage SMART Fuel Pricing, to automate their process of implementing fuel price changes. This is another innovative way that Family Express uses technology to enhance overall operational...

Debuting in InStyle, This First-Ever Multi-Platform Shopping App Integrates Mobile Image Technology With Fashion Editorial and Retail Shopping NEW YORK, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Magnetique, a free multi-platform shopping information app that seamlessly enables readers of print fashion magazines to identify local retailers that carry products featured on editorial pages, debuted in the May issue of InStyle magazine. Via Magnetique, users are able to identify must-have items...