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Top 50 Retail Brands: Walmart Retains No. 1 Spot but Amazon Leads in Growth
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| Walmart, the world's largest retailer, retains its number-one ranking in the 2012 listing of the Top 50 Most Valuable U.S. Retail Brands, followed by Target, Home Depot, CVS and Best Buy. But all these companies need to keep an eye on Amazon: the online retailer had the list's largest percentage increase in its brand value, climbing 32% to hold on to its number-nine position. Read on for the complete Top 50 list from Interbrand.
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Nordstrom Expands Mobile POS Functionality in Chainwide Deployment
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| Nordstrom has implemented mobile POS devices in all full-line stores and will continue to expand the functionality of those devices. Three quarters of traditional fixed POS capabilities can now be done on the mobile devices, providing a better customer experience.
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2012 RIS/IHL Store Systems Study: Expanding Boundaries
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| Mobility, cloud computing and empowered shoppers are reshaping the retail technology landscape. Download the Ninth Annual RIS News/IHL Group Store Systems Study to learn how retailers are planning and allocating their store systems budgets in this must-read benchmark research report.
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Top 50 Retail Brands: Walmart Retains No. 1 Spot but Amazon Leads in Growth
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| Walmart, the world's largest retailer, retains its number-one ranking in the 2012 listing of the Top 50 Most Valuable U.S. Retail Brands, followed by Target, Home Depot, CVS and Best Buy. But all these companies need to keep an eye on Amazon: the online retailer had the list's largest percentage increase in its brand value, climbing 32% to hold on to its number-nine position. Read on for the complete Top 50 list from Interbrand. | |
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CNRG Implements Cloud-Based Solution Suite
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| CNRG, a regional hardware and home center chain, will implement a suite of cloud-based business solutions from MI9 that will unite all its varied units' stores on a single platform. | |
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2nd Annual 2011 Shopper Experience Study: Taking the Store to the Shopper
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| Based on a survey of more than 2,400 consumers, the 2nd Annual Shopper Experience Study, produced by RIS News and Cognizant, taps into shoppers' likes and dislikes. Download this study to find out how to link shopper preferences to specific strategies to improve sales and customer satisfaction. | |
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David Phalen of Movado Retail Group focuses on optimizing the labor-to-sales ratio.
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| January 2012 |
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Tablets Are So 2012
Are you ready for the post-tablet retail world? It will arrive by the end of the year. The sprint to deploy tablets is rolling out at a faster rate in retail than any other technology, including the Internet. Terms like game-changer, paradigm shift and tipping point are too over used in the technology world to be meaningful. But tablets are the real deal. Here’s why.
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Item-Level RFID: Critical Mass at Last?
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 | Momentum behind the current enthusiasm for item-level RFID is being powered by solid business use cases, major retail deployments and the promise of lower tag prices. Download this report to discover how the technology’s key deliverable, improved inventory visibility, aligns with today’s omni-channel, increasingly mobile retail environment.
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