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  • Exclusive: Online home improvement retailer expands shipping infrastructure

    Without a store base to support any fulfillment, pure-play home improvement retailer Build.com lives and dies by efficient product shipping.   Further complicating the retailer’s efforts to provide quality shipping while maintaining reasonable internal costs is the nature of its product assortment.  

  • TechBytes: Not Your Father’s POS

    The POS has never been the most flashy or talked-about solution in the retail IT environment.   From manual cash registers up to client/server-based terminals, the basic idea of the POS as a fixed box that takes payment in and spits receipts out stayed pretty much the same.  

  • Family Dollar exec moves to Vitamin Shoppe

    Vitamin Shoppe on Thursday announced that it has hired Jason Reiser as COO effective July 11.    

  • Walmart exec joins board of standards body

    Cameron Geiger, senior VP, Walmart technology, has been appointed to the GS1 U.S. board of governors.

    He will help guide the GS1 U.S. strategy for driving adoption and usage of GS1 standards within the retail industry. GS1 standards are used to uniquely identify products, services and locations globally.

  • The retailer with the best customer experience is…

    Supermarkets and fast-casual restaurant brands took the top positions in an annual ranking of customer experience.   Publix, Chick-fil-A, and H-E-B earned top three positions in Temkin Group’s 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, a cross-industry benchmark of customer experience.     Publix had a score of 84%, closely followed by Chick-fil-A and H-E-B, which both scored 83% in the seventh annual rating.  

  • Feature: Asda gets goods where they need to go

    Asda, the U.K. subsidiary of Walmart, wants customers to have unencumbered access to desired products.
     
    On the front end, this has meant creating a click and collect service called toyou. On the back end, Asda enables toyou with a seamless fulfillment infrastructure based on Manhattan Associates technology.
     

  • Wal-Mart surprises with higher-than-expected Q1 revenue and profit

    Wal-Mart Stores broke the retail gloom that has penetrated so many recent first quarter earnings reports as it posted higher than expected earnings and revenue gains, and gave an upbeat view for the current period.

    Wal-Mart’s strong performance in a quarter that has challenged so many other retailers, including Target, offered evidence that its efforts to improve its U.S. stores are paying off. Among other things, the giant discounter has increased associate pay and taken moves to ensure its stores are more consistently in stock.

  • Walmart wants you – if you’re a start-up with good ideas

    Walmart is looking for innovative technology ideas – and casting a wide net to find them.

    The discount retailer is launching a “Technology Open Call” aimed at retail technology start-ups. Walmart will consider technology spanning all of retail, including capabilities around the store shopping experience, associate experience, logistics, big data, security and/or social media.

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