{"id":5835,"date":"2015-12-21T09:12:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T09:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2015-12-21T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T09:12:05","slug":"industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/12\/industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-december-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Apparel\/Department<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>DSW<\/strong> has partnered with ebay Enterprise for in-store pickup and ship to store capabilities across 467 of its retail locations.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>North Face<\/strong> is using the IBM Watson artificial intelligence platform to allow its online customers the ability to use natural conversation as they shop. In conjunction with Fluid EPX\u2019s intuitive recommendation engine, shoppers will receive personalized product recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Drug Stores<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CVS Health<\/strong> is implementing new digital tools to assist its customers. Notably, the company is using beacon technology to deliver in-store pharmacy messages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Discount\/GM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sears Holdings Corp<\/strong>. is prioritizing its mobile shopping experience. Enhancements to the newly refreshed mobile app include order placement for out-of-stock items with free home shipping, contests and digital coupons, and new loyalty member perks available only via mobile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walmart<\/strong> is planning to develop its own version of mobile payment services with Walmart Pay. The retail giant is looking to go head to head with leaders Apple, Samsung and Google in the mobile payment space. Walmart Pay is currently being piloted at stores in Bentonville, with an anticipated chain-wide rollout in early 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Grocery<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Giant Eagle Inc<\/strong>. is using IBM Cloud\u2019s SoftLayer Infrastructure as a Service to overhaul its internal IT infrastructure. The new hybrid cloud solution is designed to provide the company with sophisticated pricing options and faster procurement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reasor\u2019s Inc.<\/strong> has enhanced its data analytics capabilities for use in its 19 supermarkets. The company implemented software from DMA\u2019s Retail Enterprise Edition to better help analyze data on inventory, sales, pricing, costs, and labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparel\/Department DSW has partnered with ebay Enterprise for in-store pickup and ship to store capabilities across 467 of its retail locations. The North Face is using the IBM Watson artificial intelligence platform to allow its online customers the ability to use natural conversation as they shop. In conjunction with Fluid EPX\u2019s intuitive recommendation engine, shoppers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/12\/industry-updates-retail-and-foodservice-technology-december-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Updates: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 December 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-5835","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\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}