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What in store technologies are retailers buying for 2015?

Payment terminals/kiosks, digital signage, tablets, and traditional and mobile point-of-sale (PoS) hardware and software are the key purchases that retailers will be making in 2015.

According to RIS News, Store systems study 2015 that looks at retail technology spend trends, retailers plans to increase store IT are down on last year’s figures, but still on the agenda with traditional PoS remaining on top, but also declining. In addition to the retail technologies listed, an increased number of

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Barclaycard fights queues with contactless glove

Wearable payment technology in the form of gloves is being trialled by Barclaycard this Christmas at some of the UK’s 300,000 contactless locations.

Following a survey of 2,000 respondents, in which Barclaycard asked British shoppers – which wearable payment item would you like to see created? Gloves came out on top.

Barclaycard is now using the glove to tackle consumers’ top Christmas shopping pet hate of long queues when paying for shopping at the till.

The ‘tap and pay’ gloves aim

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Top payment technologies for your Christmas list

Fast, convenient and almost effortless ways to pay are topping the list for best payment technologies this year.

The ones to watch as listed in an Innovation Review by Retail Week are those that put the customer in control like self service kiosks and mobile payments. These solutions show that it’s not necessarily a case of creating a brand new innovative technology, but more about bringing further innovation the technologies that already exist and are in use today.

  • Slimline, card only checkouts

To ease the strain on traditional

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Making retail ambitions a reality with cloud EPoS

When the founder of SkyStreet Retail improved his business’ retail operations by 40% using his own cloud based PoS & Inventory Retail Management System he wanted to share his retail software solution with his fellow retailers.

In 2006 what started as a vision of developing a better web based software solution for his retail business turned into an enterprise of its own – Retail Express in Australia and SkyStreet Retail in the UK. Aaron Blackman, founder and CEO of both companies explains

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Technology, who wants it more?

Right now technology is sitting in the majority of retailers’ priority lists when it comes to meeting with predicted shopper expectations around store design.

In particular, retailers have got their eye on mobile point of sale, as well as queue management and ordering kiosks as a means to provide a choice of multi-channel options and in turn better service. Digital screens to support product information and shelf edge pricing are also seen to be making an impact on customers.

According to Retail

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