{"id":295,"date":"2011-10-17T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2011\/10\/technology-updates-by-industries\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:05:00","slug":"technology-updates-by-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2011\/10\/technology-updates-by-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Updates by Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chainstoreguide.blogspot.com\/\" name=\"OLE_LINK2\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/chainstoreguide.blogspot.com\/\" name=\"OLE_LINK1\"><span><b><i><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;\">Supermarket and Convenience Industry<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Big Y<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\"> announced earlier this month that it plans to phase out the use of self-service checkout lanes across all of its stores.<span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Whole Foods Market<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\"> has launched <b>Giftango<\/b>\u2019s enterprise digital gift card and stored value promotions platform to extend its e-commerce gifting capabilities.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b><i><u><br \/><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><span><b><i><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;\">Department Stores and Apparel Industry<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b><i><u><br \/><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">American Apparel<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\"> expects to double its rollout of radio frequency identification tags from 50 to 100 stores by the end of the year.<b><o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Giorgio Armani<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"> launched a website active in 30 countries in Europe, as well as the <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Japan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, and in four languages\u2014Italian, English, French and Japanese. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Macy\u2019s<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\"> said it will start RFID rollout by the third quarter of 2012, with men\u2019s furnishings, men\u2019s slacks, intimate apparel, denim, women\u2019s shoes and some private brands, and complete it by fall 2013. All 850 stores are involved.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Shoe Carnival, Inc.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"> announced the launch of its e-commerce website at ShoeCarnival.com.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b><i><u><a href=\"http:\/\/chainstoreguide.blogspot.com\/\" name=\"OLE_LINK4\"><\/a><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><span><b><i><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;\">Foodservice Industry<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Denny\u2019s <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">has rolled out a Test &#038; Learn Management System from Applied Predictive Technologies. The solution will now allow the company to test strategic and tactical initiatives across all locations. <b><o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Domino&#8217;s Pizza<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\"> announced that after just three months since its launch, the new Domino&#8217;s App for iPhone and iPod touch has achieved $1 million in sales over a single week.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Peet&#8217;s Coffee &#038; Tea <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">announced that it will begin accepting payments made with cards loaded into Google Wallet and MasterCard<sup><\/sup><i>PayPass<\/i> contactless cards at all of its company-owned locations by the end of October 2011.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket and Convenience Industry Big Y announced earlier this month that it plans to phase out the use of self-service checkout lanes across all of its stores. Whole Foods Market has launched Giftango\u2019s enterprise digital gift card and stored value promotions platform to extend its e-commerce gifting capabilities. Department Stores and Apparel Industry American Apparel&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2011\/10\/technology-updates-by-industries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technology Updates by Industries<\/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-295","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\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}