STORES Articles
ARTS Update is a series of articles published each month in STORES Magazine
by Richard Mader | February 1, 2012
The ninth annual RIS News/IHL Group Store Systems Survey, released in conjunction with a BIG Ideas session presented by ARTS, found that 75 percent of respondents cited mobile for associates or consumers as their company’s No. 1 priority in 2012. Mobile is no longer just about developing an...
by Richard Mader | February 1, 2012
The ninth annual RIS News/IHL Group Store Systems Survey, released in conjunction with a BIG Ideas session presented by ARTS, found that 75 percent of respondents cited mobile for associates or consumers as their company’s No. 1 priority in 2012. Mobile is no longer just about developing an...
by Richard Mader | January 1, 2012
Any discussion of the practices that are changing the retail business must include mobile applications and social media, which provide innovative services to consumers and analytics to retailer operations, as well as the cloud computing that enables their rapid and relatively low-cost...
by Richard Mader | September 1, 2011
Need innovative ways to attract and retain customers using mobile and social media, or having a problem with a recent cloud implementation?
The 3rd Annual ARTS User Conference, September 25-27 in Orlando, is the place to find proven ideas and solutions. The User Conference program format has...
by Richard Mader | September 1, 2011
Need innovative ways to attract and retain customers using mobile and social media, or having a problem with a recent cloud implementation?
The 3rd Annual ARTS User Conference, September 25-27 in Orlando, is the place to find proven ideas and solutions. The User Conference program format has...
by Richard Mader | August 1, 2011
Are you waiting for the day when your smartphone is your wallet, providing the convenience of waving your mobile device at the POS, selecting a method of payment, entering your PIN for security and receiving a digital receipt?
This concept is already reality in Japan, and we should see major...
by Richard Mader | August 1, 2011
Are you waiting for the day when your smartphone is your wallet, providing the convenience of waving your mobile device at the POS, selecting a method of payment, entering your PIN for security and receiving a digital receipt?
This concept is already reality in Japan, and we should see major...
by Richard Mader | May 1, 2011
The March 16 issue of Storefront Backtalk featured an interesting article. “Want Truthful RFPs? Try Having Vendors Fact-Check Competing Bids” suggested that vendors do not always provide accurate responses to RFPs. I read this article with great interest as the ARTS RFP program was referenced and...
by Richard Mader | April 1, 2011
Cloud computing is a model that offers users access to their applications from anywhere using any connected device via services and resources that are dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve economies of scale. For retailers, this translates to a reduction of the costs to manage certain...
by Richard Mader | February 1, 2011
A Toast to ARTS Standards
ARTS received exciting news shortly before NRF’s 100th Annual Convention & EXPO last month.
ARTS member BevMo!, one of the nation’s largest specialty retailers of alcoholic beverages and related products, issued a press release detailing how four of its IT...
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