by Bob Clements | Dec 6, 2012 | Blogs
RIS News’ research report “Closing the Execution Gap”, Joe Skorupa highlights that retailers are no longer piecing together best-of-breed solutions with their homegrown solutions. In fact, 52 percent of respondents in the 2009 RIS News/Gartner Retail Tech Trends study...
by Bob Clements | Nov 19, 2012 | Blogs
We have all heard the question before. It has been around for years. Paper or plastic? Now things are beginning to change. Will there be a choice in the future? Will the customer allow the question to be asked? Will the retailer allow the question to be asked? This is...
by Axsium | Nov 19, 2012 | Blogs
While “Black Friday” was originally used in context of the 1869 financial crisis, most people associate it with shopping on the day after U.S. Thanksgiving. The term was first used in this context (and not in a nice way) in 1966 by the Philadelphia Police Department...
by Bob Clements | Nov 19, 2012 | Blogs
It appears that there is a growing phenomenon in workforce management affecting some of the leading retailers: associates have collectively and completely forgotten how to punch in and out at the start and end of day on their time clocks. How could this be? Have they...
by Bob Clements | Feb 29, 2012 | Blogs
Happy Leap Day! February 29 seems weird. It only happens once every four years, and we all tend to forget about it until it is upon us. Went it arrives, we make jokes about “how old would you be if you were born on leap day?” And, when we remember that the joke...
