{"id":3071,"date":"2013-07-23T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2013-07-23T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:31:02","slug":"industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/07\/industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry News: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Supermarket and Convenience<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Albertsons<\/strong> has discontinued its loyalty card program that gives customers lower prices on some items.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suncor Energy<\/strong> has selected <strong>NCR<\/strong>\u2019s Retalix StorePoint point-of-sale and fuel management software for the company\u2019s Petro-Canada branded retail network.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Discount and Specialty<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crate and Barrel<\/strong> announced that Kewill, Inc. will implement its Flagship parcel shipping and Netship expense management software.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Target<\/strong> has has reached &#8220;peak spending&#8221; on IT and next year the IT budget will drop about two-thirds according to an investor\u2019s note form Citi analyst Deborah Weinswig.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Department Stores and Apparel<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coldwater Creek<\/strong> has deployed Oracle Retail\u2019s suite of integrated merchandise planning and optimization solutions as part of a strategic initiative to increase full-price selling and improve the productivity and profitability of store, online and catalog channels.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Foodservice<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dunkin\u2019 Donuts<\/strong> has selected <strong>Epsilon<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>to provide the technology needed to fuel the chain&#8217;s DD Perks Program loyalty initiative.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s<\/strong> is deploying the FreedomPay Commerce Platform across their domestic US franchise scoop shop system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket and Convenience Technology News: Albertsons has discontinued its loyalty card program that gives customers lower prices on some items. Suncor Energy has selected NCR\u2019s Retalix StorePoint point-of-sale and fuel management software for the company\u2019s Petro-Canada branded retail network. &nbsp; Discount and Specialty Technology News: Crate and Barrel announced that Kewill, Inc. will implement its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/07\/industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry News: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 July 2013<\/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":[11],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-technology","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}