When security can’t be allowed to slow down retail
Festive season in South Africa is traditionally a time of big spending, but it’s also a good opportunity for fraudsters and cyber criminals to strike and prey on consumers who are in holiday mode and businesses that are focused more on keeping the shelves stocked than...
How retailers can own 2015
With the festive season already here, the retail sector is in the spotlight. How the sector fares is an indication of the economy’s health and retailers are under pressure to perform. Offshore retailers have successfully used mobile to connect with customers, but can...
Embrace showrooming to ensure customer loyalty
As trends like online shopping, smartphones and social media have matured, so has the way in which customers research and purchase products and services, says Mark Hiller, GM at Lexmark South Africa. Although physical stores are far from dead, retailers continue to...
Fujitsu introduces TeamPoS 7000 S-Series
Fujitsu has mades in-store retail more adaptable and responsive, while optimising Point of Sale (PoS) economics at any scale, with the introduction of the TeamPoS 7000 S-Series modular controller. Designed to address the challenges of retailing in a hyperconnected...
LBS to enhance consumer targeting
With increasing pressure on retailers to enhance their customer experience there is a massive global evolution happening in the retail space to utilise mobile to literally power connections between brands and customers in–store. “With consumers devoting more attention...
Enhance in-store experience with digital
In a country where mobile penetration is around 128%, retailers who can integrate mobile into their in-store experience will most certainly reap the rewards, says Craig Perry, head of Sales at DMX Africa. Mobile and digital technologies are evolving rapidly with...
wiPlatform aids smaller retailers
Retailers of any shape and size can now unlock the power of mobile transacting with the announcement of local mobile transacting platform provider wiGroup that it is opening its platform to smaller retailers. wiPlatform integrates to retailers’ point-of-sale systems...
Retailers increasingly seek ESL benefits
Electronic shelf labels (ESLs) will, in the next five years, grow beyond retail markets in legislated countries and revenues will increase six-fold to nearly $2-billion by 2019, according to an ABI research report: Next Gen Retail: Electronic Shelf Labels. The report...
Q-KON solution for Africa’s POS headache
Leading South African telecommunications engineering firm Q-KON, has demonstrated the advantages of using the StarLight Satellite Access Service to deliver reliable connectivity for POS applications and to provide support to service providers who need to address...
Software AG release boosts CEM
Software AG has launched the new Customer Experience Management (CEM) Solution Accelerator for Retail. The Solution Accelerator enables retailers to deliver right-time, context-relevant promotions to precisely targeted individuals. The solution provides retailers with...
The Entertainer rolls out Zetes solution
Zetes has recently implemented its latest generation ZetesAthena In-Store Management solution to The Entertainer, one of the UK’s largest toy retailers. The Entertainer selected ZetesAthena to help improve stock auditing across its growing network of UK stores....
AutoSwitch speeds up fast food transactions
A new AutoSwitch card payment system, by Standard Bank and its partner African Resonance, is set to reduce operating costs, speed up transactions and provide merchants with a full transactional reconciliation facility that is integrated with till points. The...