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  • U.K. convenience store One Stop extends Galleria merchandising rollout

    Wolverhampton, U.K. –- U.K.-based convenience chain One Stop has been using Galleria’s Customer Centric Merchandising solution for planogram automation and optimization for a number of years, and is now implementing the Galleria Behavioral Cluster Planning tool. The new solution will provide a better understanding of consumers, assisting One Stop to understand how their categories are being shopped.   

  • SRS Retail Partners selects Esri GIS mapping tool

    Dallas -- SRS Real Estate Partners (SRS) has selected Esri as their provider of GIS mapping software and demographics tools. Brokers at SRS, as well as research consultants and other support staff, now have access to more than 50 reports which will allow them to run gap analyses, demographic reports, expenditure reports, and lifestyle segmentations.   

  • Tech Commentary: Make the Holidays Brighter--With Analytics

    By Murali Nadarajah, Xchanging Malaysia   Consumers can purchase virtually anything they want anytime from anywhere, from the Internet to social media to mobile devices to good old brick-and-mortar stores. As a result of today’s omnichannel approach to retail, chain stores now have access to a massive collection of customer data that hasn’t existed until recently.  

  • How to avoid automation conundrum

    Sears and Amazon.com both recently came under fire for allowing rings decorated with the Nazi swastika symbol to be posted for sale on their third-party seller sites. While both retailers quickly pulled the items down and issued public apologies, they received a large amount of negative publicity and surely damaged their brand image with many offended customers, perhaps to the point of permanently losing some of them.

  • Sherwin-Williams shines in Q3

    Cleveland, Ohio –- The Sherwin-Williams Company had a strong third quarter of fiscal 2014, with net income growing 24% to $326.24 million from $262.97 million in the same period a year earlier. Net sales climbed 10% to $3.15 billion from $2.85 billion.  

  • IBM launches new criminal investigation solution

    Armonk, N.Y. –- IBM has released new high-speed analysis and criminal investigation software that is designed to uncover hidden criminal threats buried inside massive volumes of disparate corporate data. IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis (EIA) can find non-obvious relationships within hundreds of terabytes of data and trillions of objects in just seconds.   

  • Ulta Beauty’s upgrade to Oracle Commerce platform enhances omnichannel efforts

    Redwood Shores, Calif. -- Cosmetics retailer Ultra Beauty has implemented Oracle Commerce to support growing e-commerce sales and deliver a consistent consumer experience across its more than 696 retail locations as well as mobile, web, guest services, and direct mail channels.  

  • Tech Guest Viewpoint: Why Grocers are Getting ‘Fresh’ with Suppliers

    By David Barach, Market6  
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