Automating Inventory Management with Data Collection Software

Posted on July 3, 2012 by bermanevansretail
As this Datalogic white paper discusses: “Small and mid-sized companies face a number of challenges when it comes to deploying mobile computers within their operations, including the cost to license and maintain application software, integration issues that can further increase deployment costs and potentially disrupt workforce activities, and a lack of IT resources to identify, integrate, deploy, and maintain the mobile technology. For companies that can clearly see the benefits for the business in utilizing mobile technology, may be hesitant to deploy because of these costs and integration obstacles, a potential solution is to consider business software that comes pre-loaded and pre-licensed in Datalogic’s mobile computers, at no additional cost.”
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What Top Chefs Think About Supermarket Staples

Posted on July 3, 2012 by bermanevansretail
What do the chefs at some leading restaurants feel about national (mass-marketed) food products? Often, they rely on special ingredients; but, they also seem to like some popular brands as well.
According to Jeff Gordiner, writing in the New York Times: “Ask around, and it’s rare that you’ll find a leading light in the culinary world who doesn’t have a semi-secret fondness for at least one of these supermarket stalwarts, whether Hellmann’s mayonnaise or Skippy peanut butter, Premium saltines or Oreos or Cheerios, American cheese, or generic ice-cream sandwiches. ‘There is something to be said about all those things,’ said Dan Kluger, the chef at ABC Kitchen, whose Web site proclaims that the New York restaurant is ‘passionately committed to offering the freshest organic and local ingredients possible.’ A lot of grocery-store staples ‘may not be organic,’ he added. ‘They may not be the best products in terms of our environment and GMOs [genetically-modified organisms] and all those kinds of things, but we kind of grew up with them, and you can’t help but revert back to them in a pinch.”
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Shoppers Skeptical About Scanned ID

Posted on July 2, 2012 by bermanevansretail
Are retailers asking too much when they seek to verify a shopper’s identity? According to a recent story by KMOX (a CBS Radio station in St. Louis): “Having a cashier check your identification is nothing new, but the way some retailers are doing it is raising eyebrows. David Johnson was at his local Target store and decided to pick up some wine. He was a little surprised when he was asked for his driver’s license. ‘Maybe this is benign, but it’s just very unsettling,’ Johnson said. ‘And I got kind of amused by it being 60 years old (chuckles), that’s kind of cool… you know?’ But he started to lose his sense of humor when the clerk scanned it with the register.”
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