Carphone Warehouse, the phone retailer, is going digital with its new look stores. The digital format will be seen across 200 of its 771 stores within the next few months. The digital design is said to create a simplified and slick customer experience through technology. Speaking at one of the revamped stores in London’s Brent…
Product information, price comparisons, social network reviews, e-vouchers, and payments. These are just some of the consumer-based offerings that smart phone and tablets can keep customers engaged with on behalf of retailers. With smartphones now an everyday item for most people, retailers are catching on to the fact that without mobile technology they are in…
Convenience store One Stop, a subsidiary of Tesco since 2003, is introducing mobile vouchers to its in store offering. Customers can use their mobile phone to redeem coupon offers in store that were sent to them by sms or email. The voucher technology is from Eagle Eye Solution’s, a company that provides a transaction software…
Right now retailers across the UK are debating the need to relax Sunday Trading Act, and perhaps multi-channel electronic point of sale technology can help them to win their argument. This is the Act that came into effect in August 1994 that allowed stores over 3,000sq ft to open for six hours only on a…
QR (Quick Response) codes are being increasingly pushed as quick and easy payment solutions. Businesses are able to create multiple codes and add them to bills as well as business cards, websites, point or sale and product labelling. Customers then scan the QR code using apps that have been downloaded onto their mobile devices, which…