Digital Transformation

The Retail Equation has launched an automated visualization tool to help retailers identify and connect individuals in retail fraud rings, allowing them to stop and prevent organized retail crime.

Office Depot's new GreenerOffice Delivery Service is projected to replace five million cardboard boxes with paper bags in the next 12 months, resulting in major environmental benefits.

Kroger selected Oracle's product lifecycle management solution to speed innovation and better serve customers. Agile PLM will help the company shorten cycle times, increase sales and reduce risks associated with innovating new products.

Nearbuy Systems secured a $1 million round of financing to accelerate the development and deployment of its innovative location-based software into major retail stores.

Best Buy launched the first campaign under a new partnership between shopping app ShopSavvy and vertical ad network Longboard Media that features targeted and location-based smartphone ads that users see while shopping at a local Best Buy.

Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) recently implemented the Oracle Retail Merchandising System Suite and the Oracle E-Business Suite to help increase sales and establish more control over inventory.

Point-of-sale and self-service pioneer NCR will acquire Radiant Systems, a POS software vendor with 100,000-plus installations worldwide, for $1.2 billion in a deal expected to close in Q3 of 2011.

Walgreens-owned Duane Reade unveiled a holographic virtual assistant at the company's Wall Street flagship store in New York City. The assistant provides customers with information and promotional messaging using holographic imaging and audio-visual technology, creating the illusion of a real person.

It's July and the retail industry is updating, upgrading and tuning its technology so there are no hiccups come the holiday season. Here are three key tech staffing recommendations that every retailer should have front of mind before the summer retail rush.

As the second half of 2011 begins, RIS News takes a look back at the first six months of the year to see what topics interested retailers most. Mobile deployments, the shopper experience and our ever-popular Top 10 lists piqued retailers' interests, as did new uses of analytics and social media. See what other topics received the most attention as RIS lists the most-read stories and the most downloaded reports from our site.