Fujitsu, SAP debut SAP-native loss prevention solution
Fujitsu's retail solution enabling the reduction of losses at the point of sale is now available directly from SAP as a Solution Extension. This flexible, SAP-native web-based tool - part of Fujitsu's Connected Retail portfolio of offerings -flags suspicious anomalies...
Virtual reality for brands
Virtual reality (VR) has received a lot of airtime over the past few years. For retailers, in particular, the technology offers completely new ways to reach their audiences. But are we thinking about this in the right way? By Glenn Gillis, MD of Sea Monster VR is a...
Transforming the global retail coffee experience
In its quest to revolutionise how the world accesses coffee, Costa Coffee, alongside Eseye, has announved a new partnership to enable Costa Express to deploy IoT-enabled vending machines around the world. Eseye's IoT technology will help the company to achieve its...
Retailers can increase agility, operational efficiency
Retailers have always been at the forefront of each new wave of digital advancement, in an effort to accommodate the increase in both the number of customers and the ensuing volume of products and transactions. By Tony Nugent Executive, retail practice at Britehouse...
TFG ups customer shopping experience with Pure Storage
The Foschini Group (TFG) has adopted Pure Storage solutions, empowering more than 23 000 employees with the technology and tools they need to build meaningful and lasting relationships with customers while intelligently managing stock levels through the group's TFG...
Vox unveils wireless solution for retailers
Vox has introduced the Vox WiFi Retail Lite solution targeting coffee shops, restaurants, and other small service businesses where customers have come to depend on freely available WiFi access. "Retail stores can ill afford not to provide customers with high-speed...
Iliadin goes OTC with exclusive Smart offering
In-store advertising company Smart Media has partnered with metered nose spray provider Iliadin to provide its new over-the-counter (OTC) Poster Arch branding solution in Dis-Chem Pharmacy stores for a nationwide winter campaign. The offering sees advertisements...
Argility launches PredictRetail
The Argility Technology Group has announced the release of its latest innovation: PredictRetail, a Google Cloud native application offering predictive analytics to retailers. PredictRetail enables retailers to make better business decisions, by using machine learning,...
Digital disruption drives trends in physical retail décor
Canon deciphers the importance of the settings and ambiences of physical shops as they become more than just a buying space, an opportunity for the brand to build and maintain relationships with its customers. We know that customers are becoming more and more...
SUSE Manager 4 makes IT transformation cost-effective
As more enterprises make the transformation to a more agile infrastructure leveraging hybrid and multi-cloud, the need for simplified, centralised infrastructure management continues to grow. SUSE has announced the availability of SUSE Manager 4 and SUSE Manager for...
Could the Amazon Go model of seamless, automated shopping work in SA?
Artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things and other next-generation automation technologies are starting to revolutionise the retail business. One glimpse of the future can be seen in Amazon Go's "Just Walk Out" stores, now open in a handful of major cities...
Transform the customer retail experience
Although the South African retail sphere is currently hindered by a slow economy and weak consumer confidence, technology is presenting opportunities to radically transform the customer experience and boost bottom line sales. Much of the opportunity lies in the...