Vendor Insights

  1. Shoptalk On Building The New Retail Community 2/25/2016

    IRT spoke with Anil Aggarwal, founder of Shoptalk — a new event that’s getting an incredible amount of industry attention — about what retailers can expect to gain from attending the show. Anil founded Money20/20 (the world’s largest consumer payments event with over 10,000 attendees in just its fourth year) as well as two tech companies with successful exits, including one sold to Google in 2012 for more than $200m. He’s also an angel and venture capital investor.

  2. Sprint And Vantiv Retail Point Of Sale Solutions Take The Toil Out Of Collecting Donations 5/8/2014

    Anyone who collects donations and donor information at charity events knows what a chore that can be.

  3. Infographic: PCI Compliance Protection Simplified 4/16/2014

    The Retail industry is one of the most targeted inudstries for credit card breaches followed by Food & Beverage and Hospitality. Protect your company and customers by ensuring PCI compliance and being backed by a trusted payment processor.

  4. Which Marketing Channel Gives You The Most Bang For Your Click 4/10/2014

    There are dozens of ways to grow your audience and make money online, but how do the marketing channels stack up?

  5. We Need More Customer Surveys! 12/10/2013

    I am joking of course, sort of. Customer surveys do not work as they are deployed today. That is a generalization that I am sure a bunch of people will challenge, but when you are presented with an opportunity to participate in a survey what is your first response?

  6. Is Item Level RFID The Joke That Won't End? 11/22/2013

    I was directly involved with RFID in my early days at Microsoft in 2003. We were convinced RFID was going to take off in retail and in short order and so much so we invested in an RFID server built on BizTalk. I wonder what happened with that server?

  7. Are We Ready For Virtual Dressing Rooms? 11/7/2013

    This is yet another technology which I am seeing more and more, but I am still not clear on the appetite of the consumer to use. The concept is for you to input (manually or automatic) your detailed body measurements into one of these systems and you can then see how you will look virtually when a certain garment, style and size is mapped to your body. Wikipedia states, a fit technology may be categorized according to the problem that it resolves (size, fit or styling) or according to the technological approach.

  8. Mobile Email Strategies For The 2013 Holiday Season 11/4/2013

    The holiday shopping season has begun! During the holiday shopping season, consumers are more likely than ever to utilize their smart devices. Marketers can prepare for mobile dominance of email viewership this season by adhering to the following best practices...

  9. In-Store Tracking Is It The Same Thing As The Internet? 9/30/2013

    I have become very intrigued about the latest technology which tracks your smart phone in a store without you knowing it. This technology captures your phones MAC address off the wireless network and then with specialized devices keeps track of that MAC address (you!).

  10. The Yin And Yang Of 21st Century Retail 9/16/2013

    The “yin and yang” in retail today is the forces of technology driven to automate everything pitted against the need for the human touch and relationship. Both are much interconnected and absolutely required in this staggering logistical and operational quagmire of ecommerce married with hundreds maybe even thousands of brick and mortar stores flying the same flag.