{"id":122,"date":"2012-07-17T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2012\/07\/retail-and-foodservice-technology-eupdates-july-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T17:26:00","slug":"retail-and-foodservice-technology-eupdates-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/07\/retail-and-foodservice-technology-eupdates-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail and Foodservice Technology eUpdates: July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><\/p>\n<div><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-64-discount-specialty.aspx\">Discount and Specialty<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Bed, Bath &#038; Beyond<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">announced plans to spend $225 million on IT, new store openings and a store refresh initiative.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Vineyard Vines<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> has launched its new e-commerce site, vineyardvines.com, on the <strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Demandware<\/span><\/strong><strong><\/strong>Commerce platform.<\/p>\n<p><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-68-home-hardware.aspx\"><st1:state w:st=\"on\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Home<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/st1:state><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <st1:state w:st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:state><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/st1:place><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Lowe\u2019s<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to implement Microsoft Office 365 across more than 1,745 stores, 200,000 employees and its corporate offices in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<b><o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-106-chain-restaurants.aspx\">Foodservice<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><br \/>Burger King<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> has launched a mobile payments pilot program in partnership with Firethorn Mobile, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc.\u00a0 The BK Mobile Crown Card allows consumers to pay for their purchase by using an Android or iOS-based phone to scan a QR tag placed on counters or drive-up windows. The pilot is taking place in approximately 50 Burger King restaurants in the Salt Lake City area.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><br \/>Domino\u2019s Pizza <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">has released the Domino\u2019s Pizza app into the Amazon Appstore for Andrioid this week. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Ruby Tuesday<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> has completed the implementation of HotSchedules Workforce solution to help forecast labor needs. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Tim Hortons<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> restaurants\u00a0are currently testing wireless Internet services in some locations. A service provider has not been selected at this time.\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount and Specialty Bed, Bath &#038; Beyondannounced plans to spend $225 million on IT, new store openings and a store refresh initiative. Vineyard Vines has launched its new e-commerce site, vineyardvines.com, on the DemandwareCommerce platform. Home Center Lowe\u2019s has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to implement Microsoft Office 365 across more than 1,745 stores,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/07\/retail-and-foodservice-technology-eupdates-july-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retail and Foodservice Technology eUpdates: July 2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[6,11],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-technology","tag-csg-old","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}