{"id":3221,"date":"2013-09-17T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2013-09-17T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:48:40","slug":"industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/09\/industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-september-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry News: Retail and Foodservice Technology &#8211; September 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>Harris Teeter<\/strong> is testing a mobile wallet system to allow consumers to pay for groceries ordered online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Home Center<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lowe&#8217;s<\/strong> updated its mobile app with in-store features that help consumers locate items while shopping. Customers can now view the location of any stocked item in a particular store.<strong> <\/strong>The app also integrates more deeply with the MyLowe&#8217;s loyalty program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tractor Supply<\/strong> will use SAS analytics to better forecast customer demand and improve the performance of promotional and regular merchandise through improved inventory placement.<\/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>Nordstrom<\/strong> is contemplating putting iPads in dressing rooms to elevate its customer experience and allow it to be more accessible to digital-savvy customers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Boston Market<\/strong> has started deployment of the NCR RealPOS 72XRT in all of its locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homestyle Dining<\/strong> is working with MIRUS Restaurant Solutions to have the company provide customizable analytical tools that deliver restaurant exception-based reporting results and dashboards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McDonald\u2019s<\/strong> is currently testing a mobile payment application in Salt Lake City and Austin, TX.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mellow<\/strong> <strong>Mushroom<\/strong> has partnered with Quickcue to manage the front-of-house operations and upgrade the guest experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SONIC<\/strong> has selected MICROS as its strategic enterprise solution partner.\u00a0 Included in the solution is MICROS&#8217; point-of-sale for drive-in transactions, as well as MICROS&#8217; enterprise solution including Enterprise Management, Enterprise Inventory and Labor, Business Intelligence, and Loss Prevention systems for above drive-in operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket and Convenience Technology News: Harris Teeter is testing a mobile wallet system to allow consumers to pay for groceries ordered online. &nbsp; Home Center Technology News: Lowe&#8217;s updated its mobile app with in-store features that help consumers locate items while shopping. Customers can now view the location of any stocked item in a particular&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/09\/industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-september-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry News: Retail and Foodservice Technology &#8211; September 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-3221","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\/3221","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=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}