Mar 29, 2018
Research conducted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last year reveals that on the surface, South Africa is a financially-progressive country. Around 76% of South African adults are banked, and many of these transaction accounts come with a debit, cheque or other...
Mar 12, 2018
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...
Mar 6, 2018
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...
Jan 8, 2018
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...
Jan 2, 2018
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...
Dec 8, 2017
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...
