Apr 23, 2012 | General, Restaurants, Retail
Merchants accepting VISA and MasterCard can greatly reduce fraud and increase card data security due to new technology designed to ensure secure smartcard payments, assuming you upgrade your POS system. This smartcard technology, long used in Europe, is finally coming...
Apr 18, 2012 | General, Retail
Flowers are not the only thing growing and blooming early this year. Around the country, people are enjoying the unseasonaly warm weather and spending more time outside and at the store. This combined with an earlier Easter holiday has provided retailers with...
Apr 5, 2012 | General, Restaurants, Retail, Supermarkets
By now you have probably heard about the rising trend in mobile technology in the retail environment. A survey done by IHL Group found that 61% of retailers rate mobile technology as their top priority. This increased interest in mobile technology has spurred...
Mar 28, 2012 | General, Retail, Supermarkets
For those of us old enough to remember the opening theme song from 1982’s classic American sitcom, maybe the place that knows your name isn’t a New England bar after all. Perhaps the famous lyric more aptly applies to a grocery chain in northeastern Alabama. For over...
Mar 21, 2012 | General, Restaurants, Retail, Supermarkets
Kathy Grannis www.nrf.com/consumertrends Washington, March 20, 2012 It seems even high prices at the pump can’t keep the Easter Bunny away this year. According to NRF’s Easter spending survey, conducted by BIGinsight, Americans will shell out an average of $145.28 on...
Feb 15, 2012 | General, Supermarkets
Tennessee EBT Outage Tennessee will experience an EBT Outage on Sunday, February 19, 2012, when the Department of Human Services converts all SNAP and Families First recipient accounts to a new EBT Contractor. * The outage is scheduled to begin at 11:30 PM CT on...
