Data Management

Belk's $150 million, three-year IT initiative is creating the climate for a business transformation, making one of the nation's oldest retailers seem like one of the newest.

Pacific Sunwear has integrated iPad tablet devices into operations at 300 of its stores, with plans to deploy the mobile technology to an additional 100 stores this year.

After a successful spring launch, Macy's is bringing back its Backstage Pass campaign in which engaging videos featuring trend and fashion tips from top designers are sent to customers' smartphones when they scan custom-designed QR codes.

Ever-increasing customer touchpoints are generating larger amounts and new types of data and there are bigger internal audiences for business intelligence insights within the retail enterprise. Download this Retail Solutions Brief to discover how retailers are reassessing their approaches to BI to handle the demands of today's omni-channel environment.

Canadian Tire, the 1,200 store general merchandise chain, is testing a personalized location-based mobile shopping app and an interactive product locator kiosk at two of its Toronto-area stores.

With their larger screen sizes and expanding customer engagement capabilities, tablets are being fast-tracked for retail rollouts. Download this special supplement, produced by RIS News and Mobile Enterprise, to discover how providing tablets to store associates can level the playing field for retailers while boosting productivity enterprise-wide.

Retailers look to the future with mobile-commerce solutions.

Home Depot launched an in-store service and ad campaign using QR code-scanning technology.

Today, multi-channel retailing encompasses the latest in social networking and mobile applications. Learn the tools retailers need to engage with customers on their own turf in new and innovative ways.

To gain new weapons in the long-running battle against out-of-stocks, Supervalu is piloting tools that track shelf in-stock positions by item and time of day. The supermarket retailer is also boosting store-level control of key merchandising displays and product assortments.