{"id":3278,"date":"2013-10-15T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2013-10-15T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T07:00:33","slug":"industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/10\/industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry News: Retail and Foodservice Technology &#8211; October 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>Wawa<\/strong> is rapidly expanding into the Florida and New Jersey markets and is using SAP for business intelligence.<\/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>Shopko<\/strong> has selected Innotrac and Micros as its new e-commerce solution.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/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>Urban Outfitters\u2019<\/strong> Free People apparel chain has revamped its mobile shopping application for the iPhone with a much greater focus on social sharing and delivering compelling pictures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JCPenney<\/strong> has cut off customer access to in-store Wi-Fi.<strong><\/strong><\/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>Chili&#8217;s Grill &amp; Bar<\/strong> will install tabletop touch-screen computers at nearly all of its 1,266 restaurants by next year. The computers let patrons order, pay and play games during the meal, and allow the Brinker International-owned chain to collect more data about customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McDonald\u2019s<\/strong> has partnered with mobile marketing company Front Flip LLC to launch an electronic loyalty program in about 570 U.S. locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subway\u2019s<\/strong> Independent Purchasing Cooperative (ipc), its purchase and supply chain management arm, recently brought all payment processing in house. The new system processes two million payment transactions per day for franchisees in the U.S. and Canada and will help Subway franchisees collectively save more than $20 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket and Convenience Technology News: Wawa is rapidly expanding into the Florida and New Jersey markets and is using SAP for business intelligence. &nbsp; Discount and Specialty Technology News: Shopko has selected Innotrac and Micros as its new e-commerce solution. \u00a0 Department Stores and Apparel Technology News: Urban Outfitters\u2019 Free People apparel chain has revamped&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/10\/industry-news-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry News: Retail and Foodservice Technology &#8211; October 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-3278","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\/3278","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=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}