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The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Timothy M. Otte |
Scanning in the Aisles Giving customers handheld price scanners is not the next big thing for supermarkets. Radio frequency identification chips are. From an investor's standpoint, the problem is it's hard to say which companies are going to be the big winners in RFID. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Aimee Duffy |
How Tech-Savvy Is Your Grocery Stock? Supermarkets need technology to stay on top. |
InternetNews June 5, 2007 Erin Joyce |
Kiosks You Can Carry Motorola puts customers in charge of their marketing messages by handing them new wireless devices at retail points. Will they buy it? |
CIO February 1, 2004 Fred O'Connor |
Magic Wand Makes Lines Vanish A cart-mounted computer helps consumers locate and scan goods as part of a Stop & Shop pilot project. |
CIO October 15, 2002 Susannah Patton |
Food Fight As they struggle for survival against discounters like Wal-Mart, supermarkets turn to IT to make shopping easier, cheaper and more profitable for them. |
Fast Company November 2006 Paul Lukas |
Whither the Checkout Girl? UPC codes and more-advanced cash registers have made efficiency, not friendliness, the vanguard in the checkout aisle. New technologies are taking such efficiency further. |
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2001 Merrie S. Frankel |
Neighborhood Shopping Centers vs. the Superstores The expansion of superstores by Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target continues to affect community shopping centers. Despite these challenges, we believe that grocery- and discount-anchored community shopping centers remain stable assets overall... |
CIO December 15, 2003 John Blau |
Future Is Now at Supermarket At one of Metro AG's Extra supermarket outlets in the industrial Ruhr Valley city of Rheinberg, Germany, about the only thing automated systems won't do is place a shopper's groceries in her car. This is the retail giant's experiment begun in April known as the Future Store. |
Science News December 9, 2006 Ivars Peterson |
Travels of a Shopper By comparing shoppers' routes to an idealized mathematical model, marketing researchers found that many shoppers tend to be a lot less efficient than they could be when picking up groceries at the supermarket. |
CRM December 12, 2014 James Keller |
Use Personalization to Convert Online Sales Emulate the in-store experience with e-commerce tools. |
The Motley Fool June 4, 2010 Jim Royal |
Does It Matter That Wal-Mart Is Slipping? Wal-Mart is still the king of the retail jungle, but its relative dominance seems to be slipping, a survey of 30,000 shoppers from Consumer Reports suggests. |
InternetNews January 14, 2008 Judy Mottl |
Transformers: Scanner to Communications Hub Motorola is expanding its enterprise mobile tool kit with the launch of a device that combines wireless bar code reading, Voice over Internet Protocol telephony, high-speed data network access and walkie-talkie capabilities. |
CRM July 2011 Brittany Farb |
Smartphone Shopping Sprees on the Rise Half of Americans use their mobile devices to make purchases, study shows. |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2007 Nathan Parmelee |
Quick Take: Whole Foods Thinks Big Whole Foods is betting on bigger stores that sound more like restaurants than grocery stores. Starting in the Phoenix market, the upscale grocery chain will open a new, large center complete with a tapas bar and a wine bar. |
InternetNews December 26, 2003 Sean Michael Kerner |
More Happy Returns for eTailers Online shopping stats continue their end-of-year surge. |
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Foolish Forecast: Safe at Home With Safeway The grocery chain will ring up its first-quarter 2007 financial results shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to find. |
Entrepreneur June 2004 Melissa Campanelli |
Seal the Deal Easy solutions to keep your online customers from ditching their shopping carts during checkout. |
CRM November 2014 Maria Minsker |
More E-Commerce Experiences Are in Store New technology enables retailers to bridge the physical and digital divide for the holiday shopping season |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Srikanth Srinivasa |
Amazon Partners With Facebook to Make Online Shopping More Social Amazon is now offering its shoppers a connect with Facebook accounts that allows movement of Facebook friends to Amazon to get recommendations from friends on what to buy. |
PC World January 10, 2001 James A. Martin |
Grocery Stores Offer More Than Just Staples Buying groceries on the Web is a terrific, though possibly endangered, convenience... |
Entrepreneur May 2010 Dan O'Shea |
A Scan-Tastic App Goes Mainstream Where barcode scanning fits in a small-business sales strategy. |
Search Engine Watch November 12, 2010 Dan Yomtobian |
Keep the Holiday Gifts in Their Carts With Remarketing Want a huge lift in ad response for the holidays? A remarketing campaign can help you combat rising cart abandonment rates for online shoppers. |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Aiming at a Moving Target If you're a big retailer, you're going to suffer one way or another when the economy slows -- and whether you suffer incrementally less than other companies may not make much difference in the stock price. |
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 Berner & Grow |
Out-Discounting The Discounter Why dollar stores that sell at cut-rate prices are giving Wal-Mart pause. |
The Family Room Gary Foreman |
Secrets Save 25% on Groceries Professional buyers know a few secrets that could reduce your grocery bill by 25%. And it doesn't take years of training to learn or apply these secrets. You can start using them on your next trip to the grocery store. |
Inc. October 2005 Stephanie Clifford |
The Hidden Value of Slow Sellers Products that sell slowly are not necessarily a drain on resources. |
The Motley Fool June 10, 2011 Shubh Datta |
Wal-Mart Can't Just Duct Tape This Massive Problem Wal-Mart to test its small-store format in the U.S. |
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Americans' e-Commerce Conundrum New report finds that Americans love the convenience of shopping online, but worry about security. |
CRM December 30, 2015 Sam Del Rowe |
Retail Predictions for 2016 Mobile will continue to dominate, but businesses need to be aware of the platform's risks. |
Fast Company December 1999 Gina Imperato |
Shopping for a Cause A look at five of the top socially conscious places to shop online. |
The Motley Fool May 9, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Gas, Grocers, and Grim Realities Inflation hurts: Grocery stocks have gotten a whole lot riskier. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
7 Ways to Curb the Urge to Splurge Don't toss another thing into your shopping cart until you read this. |
InternetNews December 6, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Online Shoppers Buying it All Online shopping got off to a quick start this holiday season, with e-tailers reporting a consumer spending increase of 24 percent over last holiday season, according to a survey. |
Entrepreneur January 2010 Gwen Moran |
Check Out Your Checkout Simple fixes can reduce the number of abandoned carts cluttering up your site. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2004 Sarah Hoban |
A Breath of Fresh Air Lifestyle centers evolve to meet shoppers' demands for convenience as shoppers, retailers, and developers are discovering fresh air's benefits. |
Inc. July 2009 Max Chafkin |
Turning Web Browsers Into Buyers Strategies to reduce shopping-cart abandonment and keep prospective customers on your site longer. |
InternetNews December 15, 2010 Kenneth Corbin |
Online Retailers Enjoying Brisk Holiday Season While the shoddy economy has kept many shoppers from checking everything off on their list this holiday season, online retailers are still enjoying a double-digit improvement over last year. |
PC Magazine October 16, 2007 M. David Stone |
Business Scanners Get Personal Office scanners don't have to be enormous machines that need a desk to themselves. A personal scanner might fit your workplace better. |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2006 Dayana Yochim |
Black Friday's Bogus Bargains Retailers have a lot more than hot bargains in store for holiday shoppers. They're pulling out all the stops to get customers to overindulge. Here's how bargain hunters can avoid the financial tripwires this season on Black Friday and beyond. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2011 Shubh Datta |
Wal-Mart Turns to Web to Prop Up Sales Wal-Mart to expand online store to boost sales. |
The Family Room |
Shopping By An Open Fire By doing your shopping online, you'll be able to avoid that I've-been-shopping-in-the- mall-all-day gaze, you'll avoid the I-saw-it-first crowds and you won't end up purchasing the oh-you-already-got-one-of-those gifts... |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
Retail Service: Who Needs It? Stores are sacrificing service in exchange for lower prices, but shoppers don't seem to mind. |
Entrepreneur October 2004 Nancy Michaels |
Man Power With the holiday shopping season nearly here, now is the perfect time to reach out to those men who will soon be searching for that perfect gift for the women on their lists. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Dayana Yochim |
Note to Self: Buy Less (Seriously) Seven tips for curbing the urge to splurge. Mind Over Money author Eric Tyson explains how to overcome our faulty psychological wiring so we can do things like stick to our shopping lists. |
Fast Company August 2001 Seth Godin |
Change Agent The best part of shopping on the Web is one-click shopping on Amazon. |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2011 Dayana Yochim |
It's Going to Be a Black Friday Like No Other Stores and shoppers have evolved since last year, making this year's post-turkey retail frenzy one that we'll all remember. |
Food Processing January 2012 Diane Toops |
For Downturn Shoppers Home Is Where The Best Deals Are The ongoing economic downturn has spawned a new breed of consumer: downturn shoppers, who are adjusting their food and beverage-related behaviors in an effort to save money. |
InternetNews June 29, 2006 Vangie Beal |
Google Checkout Open, Ready for Business Ending speculation surrounding its online payment system, the search-engine giant today launched Google Checkout. |
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Dayana Yochim |
5 Ways to Stop Buying Stupid Stuff How to resist a shopping cart full of impulse purchases and save a bundle of cash. |
InternetNews February 8, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
For e-Tailers, It's a Wide, Wide Web As e-commerce choices abound, nearly all online shoppers report site-hopping in a survey from JupiterResearch. |