{"id":9322,"date":"2017-04-18T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2017-04-18T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T11:41:09","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/04\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Apparel\/Department Stores<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Nordstrom <\/strong>is partnering with Infor to run its point of sale system in the cloud. The Infor CloudSuite Retail solution will help store associates access inventory and product information while also connecting commerce with back office systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Solstice <\/strong>selected the ncommerce platform from Newgistics. The end-to-end digital commerce solution will assist the company in enhancing its online shopping experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Discount\/GM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Amazon <\/strong>has started its AmazonFresh Pickup grocery service as a beta test. Shoppers order and pay online and pick up from a selected Pickup location where Amazon employees load the groceries directly into the customers\u2019 cars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Foodservice<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Dunkin Donuts <\/strong>partnered with Waze, which offers a crowd-sourced traffic smartphone application allowing users to \u2018order ahead\u2019 through its navigation assistant. DD is the first restaurant to partner with Waze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>McDonald\u2019s Corp <\/strong>is beta testing mobile ordering and payment in California and Washington through the company app. The test is part of the company\u2019s widespread initiatives for digital ordering and curbside delivery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Sonic<\/strong> created a team to assist restaurant operators with its new POS system which is based on a Micros Oracle platform. The new system replaced a 30-year old system, which presented dramatic shifts and changes to users.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Grocery\/Convenience<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Delhaize America <\/strong>is instituting a new supply chain solution from Relex. The system will manage fresh product categories within the company facilities across its Food Lion and Hannaford store banners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Hy-Vee Inc<\/strong>. is restructuring its corporate workforce with a focus on information technology.\u00a0 Of 70 new jobs, 50 will be full-time, IT based.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Smart &amp; Final Stores<\/strong> has implemented the Symphony Gold omnichannel technology platform to assist with demand forecasting, inventory control and operations. The solution also features category management, a vendor portal, and store replenishment reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparel\/Department Stores \u2022 Nordstrom is partnering with Infor to run its point of sale system in the cloud. The Infor CloudSuite Retail solution will help store associates access inventory and product information while also connecting commerce with back office systems. \u2022 Solstice selected the ncommerce platform from Newgistics. The end-to-end digital commerce solution will assist&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/04\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-april-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 April 2017<\/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-9322","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\/9322","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=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}