{"id":6967,"date":"2016-05-16T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2016-05-16T16:55:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:55:31","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/05\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3a64ae;\">DATA<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">TRAC <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Apparel\/Department <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Kohl\u2019s <\/strong>is now the first retailer to begin offering a loyalty reward program in conjunction with the Apple Pay mobile payment application.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Discount\/GM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>1-800-Flowers <\/strong>has implemented an artificial intelligence-powered shopping experience with a beta version of \u2018GWYN\u2019; GWYN is an IBM-Watson based Fluid Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) software platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Amazon Inc. <\/strong>has broadened its Prime Now on-demand delivery service beyond only its smartphone app to include the company\u2019s e-commerce site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>BJ\u2019s Wholesale Club <\/strong>is utilizing Revionics\u2019 price suite for merchandise optimization and pricing assortment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Homecenter<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>IKEA <\/strong>is testing a mobile application feature to help decrease checkout time by generating QR codes for products in shoppers\u2019 carts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Tractor Supply Co<\/strong>. is benefiting from a mid-2015 switch from a server-based infrastructure running Windows and UNIX to a Web-scale architecture. As a result, the retailer can better predict the future cost of growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Supermarket<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Raley\u2019s Supermarkets <\/strong>is making a number of upgrades to enhance its digital customer experience, including launching a new e-commerce platform with mobile interface and personalized service for digital users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DATATRAC Apparel\/Department \u2022 Kohl\u2019s is now the first retailer to begin offering a loyalty reward program in conjunction with the Apple Pay mobile payment application. Discount\/GM \u2022 1-800-Flowers has implemented an artificial intelligence-powered shopping experience with a beta version of \u2018GWYN\u2019; GWYN is an IBM-Watson based Fluid Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) software platform. \u2022 Amazon&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/05\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-may-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 May 2016<\/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":[24,1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","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=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}