Newsletter | May 16, 2011

05.16.2011 -- ROI 101: Optimize Your Workforce | The Right Way To Secure In-Store Tablets

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Editor's Notebook

Another Important Benchmark On The Road To Mobile Payments
By Matt Pillar, editor in chief
With Visa's new best practices for mobile payment acceptance comes encouragement and a warning: Stringent data security standards apply.

Featured Integrated Solutions For Retailers Article

Growth Of Kiosks In Retail
By Keith McNamara, Acuative
Self-service kiosk devices are here to stay. Consumer convenience, combined with significant labor productivity savings for the retailer, is driving adoption.

Growth Of Kiosks In Retail

Guest Expert Series

The Right Way To Secure In-Store Tablets
By Andrew Govek, Senior Project Manager, Frank Mayer & Associates
Retailers who may not even sell them are beginning to use tablets as interactive mobile catalogs so that sales associates can assist shoppers with their purchases. Specialty retailers are providing tablets so shoppers can custom design their own products. If you missed Part 1 or Part 2 of the series you can still catch up.

Featured Articles

Remote Management Of Mobile Computers Simplifies IT Ops, Reduces Costs
Submitted by Honeywell
Use of mobile computers for barcode scanning, signature recording, voice and data communication, and many other tasks has taken mobile employee productivity and customer service to previously unimagined levels.

Remote Management Of Mobile Computers Simplifies IT Ops, Reduces Costs

How Video Delivers Better Customer Service
Submitted by Wren Solutions
Delivering the best possible customer service is critical to retailers' success in today's ultra-competitive environment. Traditionally used exclusively for security purposes, video can be used to significantly enhance the service provided to customers.


Grocery Chain Achieves Goal: The Right People, At The Right Place, At The Right Time
Submitted by Dayforce
The Toronto-based, premium grocer, Longo's, has long understood the importance of workforce management to achieving its goals of delivering consistent, high-quality service within its budgeted labor constraint. This understanding is reflected in the call to action ingrained in their corporate culture.

Grocery Chain Achieves Goal: The Right People, At The Right Place, At The Right Time

Industry News

Retail Orphan Initiative And IBM Collaborate To Help Retailers Raise Money For Charity
iGoDigital Announces Updates To Personalized Product Recommendations Platform
New Android App To Help Verify Jobsite Check-In And Timekeeping For Mobile Workers
RSR Announces New Survey
Virtual Premise Has Record-Breaking Registrations For 2011 Customer Conference
Radiant Systems Unveils Upcoming Mobile Platform For Retailers
FURminator Expands Partnership With Channel IQ To Eliminate Global Counterfeiting
VeriFone And Hypercom Comment On U.S. Department Of Justice Civil Complaint
Avalara Named Finalist In 2011 Stevie American Business Awards
Old Dominion Opens New Container Drayage Facility In Tennessee
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The 2011 State Of The Store Manager Survey

In order to get an accurate read for our July State Of The Store Manager report we need a solid sampling of store, regional, and district managers to survey. That's where we could use help from you. Please pass this link (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SOSM_2011) down through your ranks and ask for their participation. Results are completely confidential — no responses are ever attributed to any individual or brand. You'll help us gather data for our report, and you might just help one of your employees win an iPad. We're giving one away in a random drawing of survey takers. Thanks for your help, and keep an eye out for our report in July.

Featured Content

ROI 101: Optimize Your Workforce
There is real value in your workforce. By driving innovation in the front-line people-processes, human resources can attain the full potential of its strategic value.

Specialty Retailer Sanrio Improves Service And Integration With SaaS
Sanrio required a POS/retail management solution that would be easy-to-use and to implement, provide best-of-breed functionality, as well as interface and receive updates from their existing supply chain management solution.

The Top Three Reasons Supply Chain Transformations Fail
Supply chain management used to be simple. But times have changed. Today, manufacturers have to contend with global competition, exchange rate fluctuations, product lifecycle compression, and, most important, rising customer power.
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Featured Podcast

The State Of Chip And PIN In The U.S.
The State Of Chip And PIN In The U.S.
Dr. Chandra Patni, CEO, CTO, and founder of YESpay International talks to Associate Editor Erin Harris about chip and PIN in the United States and what retailers can expect in 2011.

Tell Us What You Think


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on the process, organizational, and technology challenges your company faces. All survey responses are kept anonymous and used only in aggregate. You will also be the first to receive the report when it publishes in July.

Industry Events

The Envysion 2011 Managed And Hosted Video Summit
June 6 and 7
The St. Julien | Boulder, CO

2011 NRF Loss Prevention Conference & Expo
June 13 to 15
Dallas, TX

Retail Mobile Executive Summit
The Retail Mobile Executive Summit 2011 will be held June 27 to 29 in San Francisco, CA. Please continue to check the website for conference updates.

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