{"id":5156,"date":"2015-07-21T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:10:04","slug":"industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/07\/industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Apparel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Youngland,<\/strong> a mall-based children\u2019s retailer that operates Kid City stores, has employed cloud-based technology solutions from Aptos Inc. to improve its customer experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Foodservice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Domino\u2019s<\/strong> has added a text ordering service to its suite of AnyWare ordering applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starbucks Corp.<\/strong>\u2019s mobile order and payment service will be expanded to 3,400 stores across 21 new states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twin Peaks<\/strong> is teaming up with the mobile payment technology platform MyCheck in August 2015 to release its first branded mobile payment application.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Discount\/GM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong> in July will release its Echo voice-activated artificial intelligence device. The internet giant is currently taking orders now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Home Furnishings Retail<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leon\u2019s Furniture<\/strong> partnered with Blueport Commerce to launch a newly upgraded e-commerce site featuring a fully responsive design, using technology and development services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Room &amp; Board<\/strong>, a Minneapolis, MN-based furniture retailer has aligned its online and in-store customer experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud\u2019s predictive digital marketing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Supermarket &amp; Convenience<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kroger&#8217;s King Scoopers<\/strong> division, with stores in the Denver, CO area, has launched a new website that offers over 36,000 natural and organic products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smart &amp; Final<\/strong>, California-based discount grocery retailer is now offering Instacart delivery to customers on-demand in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparel Youngland, a mall-based children\u2019s retailer that operates Kid City stores, has employed cloud-based technology solutions from Aptos Inc. to improve its customer experience. &nbsp; Foodservice Domino\u2019s has added a text ordering service to its suite of AnyWare ordering applications. Starbucks Corp.\u2019s mobile order and payment service will be expanded to 3,400 stores across 21&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/07\/industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Updates: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 July 2015<\/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-5156","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\/5156","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=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}