{"id":7269,"date":"2016-07-19T08:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2016-07-19T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:37:47","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/07\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 July 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>Foodservice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Dunkin\u2019 Donuts <\/strong>new mobile application is now available nationally. Functionality includes the order and pay ahead feature for loyalty members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Pizza Hut <\/strong>will introduce a new social ordering platform through Facebook Messenger and Twitter, the company announced. Later this fall, a \u2018chatbot\u2019 will provide conversational social ordering for the pizza chain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Wingstop<\/strong>, a 900+ unit fast-casual chain, introduced a Conversable ordering platform on Twitter and Facebook Messenger.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Discount<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Walmart Stores Inc. <\/strong>has enabled its Walmart Pay digital payment service across its entire U.S. store network. Announced in December 2015, the initial rollout began in May 2016; it\u2019s the only form of digital payment currently accepted at Walmart.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Drug<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>McKesson <\/strong>and <strong>Chain Healthcare Holdings <\/strong>announced a newly formed entity that will combine both company\u2019s respective healthcare information technology functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Supermarket &amp; Convenience <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>7-Eleven <\/strong>has partnered with UPS to offer \u2018smart locker\u2019 programs at 300 locations nationwide. Online retailers use the locker delivery addresses into their Web checkout process to provide customers with nearby delivery options.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Apparel &amp; Department<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><strong>Nordstrom Inc.<\/strong> has purchased a minority stake in DC Co. The Utah-based company offers supply chain software that links inventory management between suppliers and retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DATATRAC Foodservice \u2022 Dunkin\u2019 Donuts new mobile application is now available nationally. Functionality includes the order and pay ahead feature for loyalty members. \u2022 Pizza Hut will introduce a new social ordering platform through Facebook Messenger and Twitter, the company announced. Later this fall, a \u2018chatbot\u2019 will provide conversational social ordering for the pizza chain.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/07\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-july-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 July 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],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-7269","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\/7269","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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}