Mobile printing is an excellent enhancement to markdown and other price labeling operations. Mobile printing helps streamline retail operations, freeing up store associates to spend more time...Read More

Re-pricing products in the store has evolved from simply being a reaction to purchasing mistakes, to a strategic tool that retailers apply to increase traffic and sales, as we discussed in this ...Read More

American Barcode & RFID has recently created a series of solutions revolving around coupon printing on demand using the Zebra Kiosk Print Station and Zebra’s KR203 kiosk printer. ...Read More

Automating route activity provides benefits both in the field and in the office by reducing the labor and time needed to enter data and process paperwork. Mobile printing is an essential element for...Read More

The kiosk market is on a healthy and steady growth pattern. Earlier this spring, BCC Research came out with a report that the market for self-service kiosk deployments should continue at a 9.3%...Read More

A vital link for streamlining in-store inventory management Based on what shoppers see in the store, it may seem that item-level tagging is on a slow ramp in retail applications. Many U.S....Read More

Transactions at self-service kiosks are growing more than 10 percent per year in North America, with transactions expected to grow past $1.1 trillion per year through the devices by 2015....Read More

Last time, we looked at the types of technology you need to implement the efficiencies of a queue busting system . Now, in this last article in our series, let’s explore why automated queue...Read More

Previously, we examined how mobile transaction systems process more customers per hour . Now let’s look at the mobile technology behind such a system. Queue-busting applications require a...Read More

In the past decade, personal technology has increasingly become a part of our everyday lives and retailers are tapping into our behavior as they look for ways to better reach their customers. One...Read More

Whether they’re used as mobile sales tools in the hands of floor associates (as examined by RIS News), or as inexpensive self-service kiosks, Apple ® iPad ® tablets are rolling out...Read More

Discover how Best-in-Class retailers are ensuring speed-to-market through mobility and RFID technology in-store, in the warehouse, and in the supply chain. Join Aberdeen and Zebra for an...Read More

In an earlier article, we provided an overview of queue busting—how retailers and other service businesses use mobile computers and printers to reduce checkout lines and improve customer...Read More

Empowered Customers. Increased Efficiency. For free registration to Customer Engagement Technology World (CETW) in San Francisco March 28-29, go to http://cetworld.com/register.asp , and...Read More

The kiosk market is on a healthy and steady growth pattern. Earlier this spring, BCC Research came out with a report that the market for self-service kiosk deployments should continue at a 9.3%...Read More

Transactions at self-service kiosks are growing more than 10 percent per year in North America, with transactions expected to grow past $1.1 trillion per year through the devices by 2015....Read More

Whether they’re used as mobile sales tools in the hands of floor associates (as examined by RIS News), or as inexpensive self-service kiosks, Apple ® iPad ® tablets are rolling out...Read More

Analysts report that retailers are among the most likely early adopters of electronic tablets as heavy hitters in the industry experiment with ways to reconnect with in store shoppers. In fact, ...Read More

Now more than ever, retailers are focusing on the customer experience at the point-of-sale in order to provide the best service possible to increasingly demanding consumers. Savvy retailers are...Read More

Increased Sales! Improved operational efficiency! These are typically the first thoughts that come to mind when one hears the words “self service kiosk.” We’ve highlighted these...Read More

When it comes to graphic and image reproduction, printers come in two basic varieties:  built-in printer language printers and host-based printers. Language-based printers use built-in...Read More

          Cut costs, build customer loyalty.    See how at Zebra's NRF Booth 1521. Get your free NRF expo pass ! Reduce...Read More

SelfServiceworld.com is reporting that kiosks are being implemented in to selected prisons through the United Kingdom.  3M has announced that their touch technology has been incorporated in...Read More

Kiosks are coming to a town near you. And not just as friendly fixtures in the malls. The time for outdoor kiosks is now, so get your wallets ready for a new way of buying products and services&mdash...Read More

Aberdeen Group has released a Research Brief that further explores its December 2009 findings that 56 percent of Best-in-Class retailers are integrating their store-level workforce management...Read More

While retail kiosk applications and configurations will vary according to your business goals, you can still count on certain basic best practices to help guide your design and deployment...Read More

A Faster, Easier Path to Enhancing the Customer Experience Shoppers have always wanted easy access to information, but now they want it faster than ever, delivered as rich media,...Read More

Offering a logical look at the potential for the Apple® iPad™ to take stores by storm, STORES magazine points out that thanks to the Web and smartphones, customers hold more information...Read More

The rapid adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) has raised several concerns over consumer privacy. No doubt, businesses in a wide range of industries are realizing significant...Read More

Tech-savvy consumers expect self-service where they shop. And by implementing self-service, stores stand to increase same-store sales and reduce operating costs. According to RIS News ...Read More

All of us have experienced frustration when we cannot find an item we are looking for at our favorite store. Not only does the store lose the sale, we the consumer lose faith in the store. This...Read More

Apparently, the days of planning shopping trips around weekend circulars are over.   Consumers are using the internet to compare products and prices from the comfort of home at their...Read More

So we saw this promo for the CBS reality show Undercover Boss and notice a healthy helping of Zebra printers. In this scene GSI Commerce CEO Michael Reuben gets canned because he can't apply a label...Read More

365 Retail Markets, a unattended retail kiosk provider, recently developed and deployed a self-checkout RFID-based retail kiosk system with item-level tagging called SmartShop. The RFID reader in...Read More

With the U.S. economy stabilizing but only slowly coming out of the year-plus long recession, retailers are looking at self-service applications as a way to improve store efficiency and...Read More

Library of Resources Points the Way to More Efficient DSD Operations Automating direct store delivery (DSD) and route accounting and DSD operations improves business efficiencies, and the...Read More

Mobility is moving rapidly beyond direct store delivery and mobile payment. Warehouse operations and retailers for example are seeing the benefit of completing transactions on the floor versus...Read More

          Cut costs, build customer loyalty.    See how at Zebra's NRF Booth 1521. Get your free NRF expo pass ! Reduce...Read More

Jeff Weidauer of Vestcom International proposed an interesting idea in his online  RIS News  article: using QR codes on shelf labels. A QR code—a type of bar code that anyone...Read More

Using Technology to Drive Brand Recognition and Recurring Sales Throughout this series, you learned how mobile point of sale (POS), self-service kiosks, and technologies like the iPad and...Read More

Offering a logical look at the potential for the Apple® iPad™ to take stores by storm, STORES magazine points out that thanks to the Web and smartphones, customers hold more information...Read More

Over the past several weeks, we’ve touched on top ways retailers use self service to streamline store processes, reduce labor costs through labor redeployment, and reduce paper and...Read More

If you’re thinking of adopting kiosk self-service, it may be because it offers the ability to streamline store processes, reduce labor costs through labor redeployment, and even reduce...Read More

The concept of “endless aisle” is not new. Retailers have been using e-commerce Web sites to expand product availability for years, and continue to do so. However, the use of   ...Read More

365 Retail Markets, a unattended retail kiosk provider, recently developed and deployed a self-checkout RFID-based retail kiosk system with item-level tagging called SmartShop. The RFID reader in...Read More

With the U.S. economy stabilizing but only slowly coming out of the year-plus long recession, retailers are looking at self-service applications as a way to improve store efficiency and...Read More