{"id":142,"date":"2012-06-12T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2012\/06\/technology-eupdate\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:08:00","slug":"technology-eupdate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/06\/technology-eupdate\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology eUpdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><\/p>\n<div><b><i><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Discount and Specialty<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Technology News:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Best Buy Canada<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> will start rolling out mobile point-of-sale in select Future Shop and Best Buy pilot store locations.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Bombay &#038; Co.<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> has selected <strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">TD Retail Card Services<\/span><\/strong> to create and administer its private label credit card.<\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><i><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Department Stores and Apparel<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Technology News:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Neiman Marcus<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> is equipping all of its 4,000 associates at its full-line stores with smartphones in an effort to better serve customers.<b><o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Nordstrom<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> management has committed to invest this year $140 million or about 30% of total capital expenditures for IT infrastructure.<b><o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><i><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Foodservice<\/span><\/u><\/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;\">Technology News:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">is currently in a rapid growth stage, with contracts for 450-plus locations worldwide where Micros will provide its Restaurant Enterprise Series (RES) point-of-sale system and the mymicros.net cloud-based reporting and business intelligence platform.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Carlson Restaurants<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> has entered an agreement to implement NCR inventory and labor management solutions in all of its domestic T.G.I. Friday\u2019s restaurants. Also, <b>T.G. I. Friday\u2019s<\/b> is the first casual-dining chain to offer a smartphone application that lets guests start a tab from their iPhone or Android, track it on the device and close it out without a waiter. The pay-at-table function is offered at about 300 of Friday\u2019s more than 900 restaurants. The app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store or the Android App Market. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Chevys Fresh Mex<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"> is rolling out a digital media system. The Ziosk features a 7-inch touch screen that enables Chevys diners to view promotions and specials, order items, play games, watch videos, see movie trailers and pay their checks at the table.\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount and Specialty Technology News: Best Buy Canada will start rolling out mobile point-of-sale in select Future Shop and Best Buy pilot store locations. Bombay &#038; Co. has selected TD Retail Card Services to create and administer its private label credit card. Department Stores and Apparel Technology News: Neiman Marcus is equipping all of its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/06\/technology-eupdate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technology eUpdate<\/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-142","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\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}