Industry News - April 17th, 2009
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RETAIL AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS |
Game Crazy Rolls Out 1,300 POS Printers
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Game Crazy installs Epson's
TM-T88IV thermal POS printers with high-speed USB in all 560 stores.
The rollout began in October 2008 and was completed in January. The
product is being distributed through BlueStar USA.
"Consumer demand for video games has exploded, which has fueled our
growth including the opening of new concept stores in 2009," says Craig
Miller, senior vice president and CIO. "To successfully manage this
growth, and deliver an exceptional customer experience, we knew that it
was critical to improve the speed of service and efficiency in our
stores. Our partnership with Epson allows us to meet these needs. The
TM-T88IV is easy to use, and allows our associates to spend more
quality time with our customers."
Game Crazy's Epson TM-T88IV POS printers are backed by Epson's
Spare-In-The-Air Program, a service that provides an alternative to
on-site repair. If an Epson printer should fail for any reason, Game
Crazy can call Epson and a replacement unit is express-shipped overnigh
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RetailMeNot.com Becomes Destination Hub for 90,000 Printable Coupons
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RetailMeNot.com,
a top consumer destination for coupons, discounts and promotional codes
for merchandise, travel and services, today announced several strategic
partnerships with leading printable coupon sources. The partnerships
will fuel RetailMeNot.com Printable, a new feature of RetailMeNot.com
that provides consumers with more than 90,000 printable coupons for
manufacturers' discounts and local offers. By partnering with
MoneyMailer.com, redplum.com and Valpak.com, users will have free
access to more printable in-store coupons on RetailMeNot.com than any
other Web site.
RetailMeNot.com has become synonymous with online coupons, with 150,000
online coupon codes and discounts and upwards of nine million visitors
each month. Now, with the site's expansion into printable coupons,
RetailMeNot.com is the first and only one-stop resource for coupons,
for both online and in-store discounts. RetailMeNot.com will continue
to add partners to expand the volume of coupons offered on the site.
The first companies to partner with RetailMeNot.com Printable are:
MoneyMailer.com,
the premier national direct marketing company that optimizes
advertisers ROI through the integration of shared mail, one-to-one,
mobile advertising as well as online coupon circulation via
MoneyMailer.com.
redplum.com,
a Valassis-owned destination site and network for finding great deals
and discounts as well as product information and advice. redplum.com
offers coupons from thousands of retailers, manufacturers and vendors.
Valpak.com,
one of the largest local savings sites on the web, offers consumers
great values from businesses and service providers in their
neighborhood. From restaurant savings to home improvement discounts,
each month consumers view more than 20 million offers from Valpak.com."
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dELiA*s Improves Inventory Planning with Store Planning
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dELiA*s localizes its offerings across all of its dELiA*s retail stores with Predictix Store
Planning. dELiA*s selected Predictix Planning in the first quarter of
2008, and was live with Predictix Store Planning in July.
"We've been impressed by the flexibility and power of Predictix
Planning," said Daniela LaRosa, senior director of planning and
allocation, dELiA*s. "We now have the ability to plan down to the store
and item level and can run multiple scenarios on the fly, which is
essential for in-season re-planning."
Predictix Planning offers full-featured planning modules over the Web
on a monthly subscription basis. Predictix Planning modules include
strategic planning, merchandise financial planning, item planning,
channel planning, store planning, store clustering/grading, space
management, category management, assortment optimization, assortment
planning, promotional planning and price optimization. With Predictix
Planning, dELiA*s has also been able to support its growing planning
needs.
"Always, yet especially now, we are striving to be more efficient,"
said Caryl Paez, senior director of information technology, dELiA*s.
"With Predictix, we didn't have to buy any hardware, software, or third
party licenses, and we no longer have to deal with ongoing operations
or upgrades. We've accomplished our goals at a fraction of the cost of
other alternatives, yet we haven't compromised the support we are
receiving from our technology partner."
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Barnes & Noble Debuts 'Blogging Booksellers' Feature
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Barnes & Noble debuts its 'Blogging Booksellers,' a new feature in the Barnes & Noble Studio, an online destination featuring Web video series and multimedia content about books, readers and writers.
As a nod to customers' favorite book shopping experience - chatting
with the sales staff about their favorite reads and recommendations -
the Barnes & Noble Studio has created Blogging Booksellers, a
program where Barnes & Noble booksellers from various stores around
the country create and upload their own video blogs about their latest
recommended reads and local store events.
Blogging Booksellers currently features 11 bloggers in nine cities
across the country, with more to be added. Selected for their
extraordinary passion and knowledge about books, the bloggers are
tasked with creating short, entertaining, and informative videos, while
giving a friendly face to their local stores. The video blogs, updated
weekly, are filmed with user-friendly Flip cameras, offering a
real-life and personalized account of recommended weekly reads,
exciting news about local stores events, and other inside scoops from
Barnes & Noble's stores and Barnes & Noble.com ( www.bn.com).
Additionally, the 'Store Locator' on Barnes & Noble.com now allows
visitors to identify stores with Blogging Booksellers in residence - a
unique way for consumers to find their local 'celeb' bloggers. This
journal-like view of the stores and their communities offers a
personalized, insider's feel to Barnes & Noble, giving online users
and store visitors alike a unique shopping experience.
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RedPrairie Unveils Warehouse Management 2009
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RedPrairie launches the latest release of its Warehouse Management system,
Warehouse Management release 2009 to help retailers meet the challenges of multi-channel retailing.
E-commerce retailers will be able to take advantage of the new
releases'Optimised outbound repacking' tool, aimed at sites that send
out one or two products to a large number of end customers. This
packing module helps reduce packing time and enables integration with
multiple carrier systems to provide labelling and carrier selection.
The upgraded system has improved functionality, including support for
hanging garments. The system allows clothing to be hung and tracked on
and off rails, within user designed zoning and dimension constraints
such as weight, length and drop, leading to greater efficiency
throughout the supply chain.
Rules to optimise repacking have been added, to manage how packages are
combined and scheduled for delivery, reducing handling and carrier
costs. The integration with RedPrairie's Duty Management application
allows for more accurate tracking of duty to comply with regulations as
well as enabling deferment of duty payments.
The enhanced system also includes de-catalogued stock management which
helps e-commerce sites selling products with a high level of seasonal
SKUs. These products require strategic replenishment management, and
Warehouse Management 2009.1 provides an automated process that
identifies inventory for these products and can automatically prepare
orders to transfer such product out to pre-determined destinations.
Predictix Launches SaaS Suite for Consumer-Centric Merchandising
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Predictix launches
its consumer-centric merchandising suite. The Predictix suite is
delivered in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription model and
helps retailers and brands choose the right merchandise assortment for
each store to strategically pricing, promoting and replenishing
products.
The Predictix Consumer-centric Merchandising suite includes the following:
Planning + Allocation. Predictix Planning + Allocation
consists of Web-based modules that include features that planners need
on a daily basis, and features dynamic hierarchies, dimensions and
clustering, and built-in flexible reporting and analysis. Predictix
Planning + Allocation includes modules for strategic planning,
merchandise financial planning, item planning, space management and
assortment optimization.
Pricing + Promotions. Enables consumer-focused regular
price, promotions, and markdown planning, guidance and optimization and
market basket analysis. The platform combines scientific analysis with
intuitive, user-driven pricing processes to ensure that retailers and
brands deliver what their customers need while achieving their sales,
unit and profit objectives.
Forecasting + Replenishment. Yesterday's "black box"
and unwieldy forecasting and replenishment systems are obsolete with
Predictix Forecasting + Replenishment, which feature real-time scenario
comparisons, actionable recommendations and results, and intuitive
workflow-based interfaces.
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