VAT shelf price update debacle looms

The increasing VAT amount is having an enormous impact on retailers that use paper price tags – but almost none on retailers that use electronic shelf labels (ESL). Retailers that use paper price tags have to ensure that every single price in their stores...

Retailers use tech to buck the economy

South African retailers have embraced a considered approach to digitalisation, innovation, and technology adoption to load their arsenal against the fiscal onslaught of a wounded economy. By Hendrik Bredenkamp, MD of NEC XON Retail They are under so much pressure from...

Retailers turn to smarter stores

As the holiday shopping rush gets into full swing, South African retailers are increasingly looking to technology that they can use to improve their operations, better understand and engage with their customers – using both off- and online channels – and...

Don’t let security fears hold back retail innovation

VMware EMEA’s Ian Jansen van Rensburg discusses the issues around security in the retail sector. The retail industry is intrinsically linked to the wider economy’s performance. It’s an industry that relies on constant innovation, as retailers battle to lure...

When the retail chain is forged

Bah humbug, bugs, bots and what you didn’t bargain for. By Martin Walshaw, senior systems engineer at F5 Networks. For online consumers, ’tis the season to be jolly. For businesses, it’s a time where the retail chain may be forged in life. For...

It’s time to change how you think about retail

The word ‘change’ is a common one in retail settings. By Charles Pittaway, MD of Sage Pay When you try on clothing, you do so in the change room; if a dress you bought doesn’t fit or you change your mind, you exchange it and, with any luck, after...