Best Buy is the biggest US retailer of electrical goods with sales of over $15bn from 1,700 stores. Another anonymous postee said: "In the last two years I and others have done our own research and found several large retailers that use WLAN to...
Supermarket group Safeway is one of the first retailers to commit to early use across its stores nationwide and its store at St Katharine's Dock near Tower Bridge in London is the first outside of Northampton to be equipped.
Hewlett-Packard said on Friday that it has won a $55m, five-year contract from retailer 7-Eleven to upgrade the technology at the convenience store chain in the US. The contract covers 5,300 7-Eleven stores across the country.
Best Buy and Circuit City will each keep a handful of stores open late but most of their stores and those of other retailers are planning normal hours. CompUSA plans to keep its stores open past midnight on 30 January so shoppers can get the new...
The pharmacy-to-cosmetics retailer expects 1,200 units - supplied by IBM and Ingenico - to be installed in more than 500 stores by the end of August, replacing the original kiosks installed in late 1999.
The technology provides managers at the retailer's 49 stores around the country with a central digital repository where they can pick up information about fast-selling ranges or merchandising changes on a daily basis.