{"id":4338,"date":"2014-10-20T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:31:35","slug":"industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/10\/industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Foodservice<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Farmers Restaurant Group <\/strong>selected <strong>Agilysys, Inc.<\/strong>\u2019s workforce management solution software. The company hopes to reduce labor costs and increase profitability with help from the new solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starbucks <\/strong>anticipates launching a full U.S. rollout of mobile ordering in 2015 after piloting the program in Portland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subway <\/strong>began accepting mobile payments through <strong>Softcard<\/strong>, which is a joint venture between AT&amp;T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discount<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RadioShack <\/strong>will partner with <strong>Apple Pay<\/strong> for mobile payment at over 900 of its locations in five large markets, including Manhattan, Chicago, and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walmart <\/strong>is partnering with <strong>Green Dot<\/strong> to provide its customers with <strong>GoBank<\/strong>, a mobile banking platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supermarket &amp; Convenience:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Giant Eagle <\/strong>is testing smart devices from <strong>Brickstorm<\/strong> for capturing in-store analytics. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Love\u2019s Travel Stops &amp; Country Stores<\/strong> is using SAP\u2019s <strong>FICO<\/strong> financial management application to assist in its store growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whole Foods Market<\/strong> distribution centers saw productivity gains after implementing <strong>Voxware<\/strong>\u2019s voice technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apparel &amp; Department:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>American Eagle <\/strong>installed <strong>shopBeacon<\/strong> technology at more than 100 of its locations over the past months that communicates with customers\u2019 mobile devices as they enter the store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue Nile Inc.<\/strong> has rolled out a new mobile shopping application which includes augmented reality on the app&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Dream Box<\/strong>&#8221; feature. The app, available through Apple\u2019s App Store, allows customers to virtually try on an engagement ring with their mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chico\u2019s FAS<\/strong> partnered with <strong>Tyco Retail Solutions<\/strong> at 13 pilot locations to test its RFID. The company announced positive results addressing inventory accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers<strong> <\/strong>including<strong> Art of Shaving, Express, <\/strong>and <strong>Things Remembered<\/strong> are using a new, in-mall mobile retail solution from <strong>StepsAway<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foodservice: Farmers Restaurant Group selected Agilysys, Inc.\u2019s workforce management solution software. The company hopes to reduce labor costs and increase profitability with help from the new solution. Starbucks anticipates launching a full U.S. rollout of mobile ordering in 2015 after piloting the program in Portland. Subway began accepting mobile payments through Softcard, which is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/10\/industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Updates: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 October 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-4338","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\/4338","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}