Pharmaceutical group goes always-on with Stratus
Established in 1978, Dis-Chem started out as a small pharmacy in Mondeor, South of Johannesburg. Today, with around 90 stores across the country, the Dis-Chem Group is still privately-owned and run by the original founders. Over the years the Dis-Chem Group had...
The Pavilion rolls out MasterPass solution
The 1,8-million visitors per month at The Pavilion in Durban now have the option to pay for their parking using MasterPass, MasterCard's digital wallet service. This is the first MasterPass parking payment feature to go live in South Africa. Using digital payments to...
Intervate rolls out Intranet for TFG
TFG (The Foschini Group) is one of the leading fashion and lifestyle retailers on the African continent – encompassing 19 retail brands and a combined footprint of more than 2 700 stores. Driven by teams of talented and engaged individuals, TFG is guided by a strong...
Oracle Retail helps improve insights
Most retailers agree their customer and operational data contains unique and valuable insights, but they are often unable to extract those insights due to the capital investment, infrastructure and staff required to sustain “big data” analytics environments. Today...
JDA offers new features in Store Operations
Today’s retail managers are challenged to keep shelf availability and service levels high, while keeping store operations costs low without sacrificing the customer experience — which means they must schedule employees and manage tasks with an exacting degree of...
Smart retail spaces make business sense
Intelligent technologies have become increasingly common, both within the business and consumer space, says Paul Divall, MD – Intelligent Technologies at Jasco. Utilising such ‘smart’ technologies results in reduced costs, improved efficiencies and enhanced...
ZipZap mPOS offers USB solution
In an innovative move by Paycorp, South Africa’s leading independent payments company, ZipZap mobile POS (mPOS) now provides an additional card reader that enables businesses and retailers to connect to a Windows computer via a USB port as well as the standard...
Online stores need flexible IT architecture
In the retail market, competitiveness has always revolved around differentiation, be this of product, price or service. However, as the world has become more digital and traditional retailers have joined the online retail market in the ecommerce space, differentiation...
Pricer boosts growth for Toy Adventures
Toy Adventures at Byls Bridge in Centurion has implemented Pricer electronic shelf labels (ESLs) from XON Retail Solutions to improve supply chain management, improve sales and marketing in the store, and both empower and reduce the burden on employees. Gerhard Korf, owner of Toy Adventures, seeks to exploit the potential supply chain efficiencies and sales insights offered by the Pricer system to grow his business as opposed to focusing on cost saving benefits.
Retailers invest heavily in omni-channel
A new JDA study reveals an enormous amount of money; energy and time retailers and consumer goods manufacturers are spending to improve their omni-channel sales capabilities. While this may not be surprising given the current business environment, the report reveals...
Smart stores unite online and offline
The growing prominence of smart stores in support of omni-channel retail is due to changing behaviours of shoppers, says Minesh Manga, director at XON Retail Solutions. Technology has progressed in the past 25 years and has changed the way consumers interact with...
Monument SuperSPAR rolls out Pricer ESL
Monument SuperSPAR has increased its monthly gross profit (GP) margin consistently by 4% since implementing Pricer electronic shelf labels (ESL) by XON Retail Solutions, which has exclusive Pricer distribution rights in southern Africa. The SuperSPAR experienced the...