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Mobile sites are supposed to be slow, but not this slow. Best Buy does okay, Costco tanks. But even doing okay isn't so okay. The typical Web page should load in 2 seconds and the ideal mobile page should load in 4 seconds. The best site here (Best Buy) was twice as slow as that, at 8.3 seconds. The worst — Costco — crawled in at 34 seconds. Not good.
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Integrated Solutions For Retailers Featured Article
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Research & Trends: The Search For Intelligence
By Sean Alexander, Analyst, IHL Group
Data pulled from the IHL Group Sophia Data Service indicates that only 23% of the North American retailers have adopted a business intelligence solution. Is the value lost on retailers?
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Executive Commentary
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Do You Have Candidates Waiting In The Wings?
By Ginny Gomez, Senior VP Of Product Management And Marketing, Peopleclick
Coming off the holiday season, many retailers are already prepared for the next season ahead. Spring's warm weather brings a spur of growth, not just for flowers and trees, and opportunity to bring aboard fresh, new talent to your industry. Recruiting is one of the first actions organizations tackle once the hiring freeze thaws. Despite the current economic environment, some retailers have been too hot to freeze, taking advantage of the job market's many potential high-quality candidates.
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Featured Articles
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No Cost, Low Cost Conservation
Submitted By Advantage IQ
For businesses that have put a freeze on spending, the idea of taking action to reduce energy consumption may seem impossible. What many are unaware of are all the options for energy conservation that cost nothing, or very little. There are many opportunities for no cost, low cost, energy conservation measures (ECMs) that are effective in cutting consumption and adding to a business' bottom line.
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Real-Time Inventory Management: One Size Fits All
By Samantha Murphy, Chain Store Age
The Commerce, Calif.-based retailer sought an automated system that could manage the process in real time. Rather than looking to an array of companies to run the different areas of its Web business, Robert Wayne Footwear turned to long-time partner, Celerant Technology, a Staten Island, N.Y.-based multichannel retail software provider.
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Staffing To Maximize Customer Satisfaction
By Jeff Bulger, Industry Expert - Retail, RedPrairie
This article focuses on optimizing staffing of store associates to maximize customer service while minimizing costs. The current economic forces weighing upon retailers make the use and scheduling of associates more critical than ever before. However, reducing employee hours or even reducing the number of employees per shift seems to be mutually exclusive to serving customer needs.
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Featured Downloads
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| Stories Of Success Leveraging BI For Business Analysis |
| Successful organizations have learned about a different approach to Business Intelligence. They are harnessing a much wider range of capabilities that provides more meaningful analysis to the people who need information, when they need it. Read about three retail industry leaders who changed their world with their approach to business analysis.
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| Health And Beauty Retailer Opts For Datalogic Memor™ For Inventory Management |
| Significant factors underlying this choice of mobile computer were not only the price/performance ratio, but also the fact that the vendor is a world player, which gives A.S. Watson the necessary freedom to anticipate matters quickly at a local level.
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| The Five Most Common Oversights In Enterprise Self-Service Networks |
| Self-service, done right, is a huge asset to the retail industry. However, there are some common oversights that interfere with the optimal implementation and operation of self-service systems, resulting in slower response rates, longer fix times, increased error rates, cost overruns, and negatively impacted ROI.
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