Archive / October, 2014

Retailers act to stop online fraud

Retailers are working together to overcome online fraud in a new coalition known as ‘Trade’.

The fraud and loss prevention tactic hopes to detect fraudulent activity as it happens and speed up subsequent actions by sharing transactional data. QVC and Shop Direct as well as other big retailers are part of the scheme managed by Transactis, consumer insight and anti-fraud specialist.

Notes John Pears, director of credit risk and operations at Shop Direct: “TRADE has been put together with input

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IKEA trials motivational mirrors in store

In an effort to make its customers have a feel good shopping experience and potentially sell more mirrors and products in general, IKEA is testing interactive mirrors in store.

At the home retailer’s Wembley store customers will be able to experience a compliment as they pass or stop to check their reflection in the motion-sensing mirror.

The idea of the ‘motivational mirror’ is said to provide people with positive reinforcement, with messages that include popular positive sayings like “Suits

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Football tickets to fishing permits

With a vast range of electronic-point-of-sale (EPoS) hardware and several strong partnerships with solution resellers and software experts, International POS Ltd (IPOS) has been involved in a variety of innovative EPoS projects.

Known for building custom solutions for businesses in the retail and hospitality sector, Frank Whittle, managing director at IPOS who set the company up in 1990, in Lancaster, Lancashire, shares his company’s latest success stories with us. Working with partner ECR Concepts

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IPOS on small space and mobile EPoS

As a key hardware provider, IPOS has the opportunity to work with all manner of businesses – the end client, the solution reseller or the software provider, at any one time. In doing so, it takes a partnership approach that can be relied upon to deliver the right and often custom solution for any environment. This means that one month it might be developing an EPoS system for a retailer with a fashion or convenience store, and the next it may be providing a solution for a hospitality business

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