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  • Three Tech Lessons from Thanksgiving Weekend

    So the retail industry made it through another five-day Thanksgiving weekend, stretching from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday. As the dust begins to settle and the pundits make their pronouncements, let’s look at a few technology lessons retailers can learn from this year’s kickoff to the all-important holiday sales season.   Little Mobile is All Grown Up
  • FirstData: Retail dollar volume up 5.3% Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday

    Year-over-year (YOY) retail dollar volume from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday grew 5.3%, a decrease from last year’s growth of 7.4%, according to First Data 2014 SpendTrend Holiday Shopping Spend Analysis, which examined consumer spending from more than one million merchant locations over the five-day period.Similarly, retail transaction growth was 5.0% compared to 6.0% in 2013.  
  • Food City lets customers do it themselves with self-checkout

    Abingdon, Va. – Sometimes the best customer services comes from customers themselves. Food City, K-V-A-T Food Stores Inc. has completed a pilot test of the Fujistsu U-Scan Genesis II self-checkout solution.
     
  • New Stater Bros. store features all LED lighting

    San Bernardino, California - Stater Bros. will open a store in Covina, California on Wednesday, December 10, 2014.     The new “Blue Ribbon” supermarket is the 26th Stater Bros. location in Los Angeles County. It includes many environmentally friendly features, including:   • LED lighting throughout the entire store; • New lighting system that uses dimming ballasts, energy efficient lamps and occupancy sensors;
  • Five Hot Stores for a Cold Winter

    The fall is always a busy time for new store openings as retailers head into their biggest selling season of the year. The five below are generating big buzz….as is the bonus one at the end.

    1. Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Toom, Seattle
    The coffee giant spared no expense on its newest retail concept—the space is spectacular.  Two years in the making, the Roastery is part retail store and part manufacturing facility—and all theatre.

  • Five top U.S. markets for luxury retailers

    New York  - New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Miami and San Francisco rank at the top of the list, reporting the highest luxury sales in per square foot,  according to JLL’s “The New World of Retail Report.”  But while core metro areas ranked at the top of the list of preferred locations, several emerging retail markets like Dallas, Houston and Orlando possess the attributes for longer term success driven by ongoing population and income growth.  
  • Guest Commentary: New Florida data breach law impacts retail stores

    By Luis Salazar and Neha Dagley   Watch out, retailers with stores in Florida. The Florida State Legislature has tightened controls over businesses for data security breaches. Effective July 1, 2014, the new Florida Information Protection Act (FIPA) will impact your business and how you handle data breaches.  In recent years, data breaches have become commonplace, and have undoubtedly affected the chain-store industry.     FIPA: COMPLIANCE AND CONSEQUENCES
  • Guildford Town Centre reaches out to consumers with 3 Tier Logic

    Surrey, Canada - Guildford Town Centre, a shopping center in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, is reaching out to customers across multiple channels and points of engagement. The center retained 3 Tier Logic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3TL Technologies, to use its Platform3 technologies to drive consumer foot traffic, gather in-depth data about shoppers, and increase social media engagement.  
  • Danier Leather goes for form and function with Fujitsu POS rollout

    Toronto, Canada - Danier Leather is going for both form and function with a new POS rollout. The retailer's flagship store at the Toronto Eaton Centre, Toronto, has implemented Fujitsu TeamPOS 7000 All-In-One (AIO) hardware. The solution offers faster and sleeker point of sale technology and the capability to integrate with future omnichannel offerings to enhance usability, increase sales capacity and improve the consumer experience, according to Fujitsu.    
  • Eastern Mountain Sports goes live with JustEnough forecast solution

      IRVINE, Calif.- JustEnough Software Corp announced that Eastern Mountain Sports, has gone live with JustEnough’s retail planning solution to better plan and forecast for its 68 stores and e-commerce site.  
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