Retail IT Featured Editorial

  1. Developing A Lien Search Strategy For Legal Due Diligence 9/1/2020

    When performing legal due diligence, one of your primary goals is to uncover hidden legal liabilities, historical and pending, that come with the deal. However, your plan of attack can be dramatically influenced by several factors, including the type and size of the deal, the industry, time constraints, and more.

  2. Branch Office Vs. Subsidiary? It's A Critical Choice When Expanding Your Business Globally 9/1/2020

    It’s time to expand your business overseas. Before you open your doors, you must make a critical choice — one whose impact is often underappreciated: branch office vs a subsidiary?

  3. A Long Recovery: Restaurants Coping With The Impact COVID-19 7/20/2020

    Restaurants are reopening in states that were hit hard with COVID-19 restrictions. Social-distancing policies are not allowing restaurants to return to pre-pandemic operation levels, in most cases they are being forced to function at no more than 50% capacity.

  4. New Products For New Times: APG's Guardiant Shields 6/25/2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced both consumers and businesses to rethink their activities and priorities. As restrictions that temporarily halted eat-in restaurant and in-store sales start to ease, many consumers are weighing the benefits against the risks of resuming their patronage of these businesses.

  5. Retailers' Post-Pandemic Investments To Focus On Omnichannel 4/28/2020

    In the blink of an eye, the COVID-19 outbreak caused massive upheaval in the retail industry. As retailers look beyond the lockdowns and stay-at-home directives necessitated by the pandemic, some of the technology changes and investments implemented in a hurry will likely be permanent.

  6. Brave New World: A Futuristic Vision Of Payments 4/13/2020

    Over the last ten years, the retail e-commerce ecosystem has undergone a wide-ranging transformation. As recently as 2010, the e-commerce and payments value chain was relatively straightforward: Any eCommerce merchant could integrate a payment processor’s front-end HPP into their checkout or perform a deeper API integration for a customized checkout experience. The customer then enters their card details or other bank details, which were passed to payment platforms and schemes for processing.

  7. Clothes Sold New And Used While Rented And Repaired Online – Doing More With Less 4/13/2020

    Clothes are being handled like cars – and why not? Digital fashion companies can learn from the auto industry in building deeper relations with customers by treating them newly as business partners who supply apparel. Together with re-fashioning the value chain, there are opportunities for online clothes retailers to raise the market profile and market share. And also help the environment to boot.

  8. It's Official: The October 2020 Outdoor EMV Deadline Remains. How Does That Impact You? 4/13/2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has been front-and-center in the global news cycle for the past few months, and the impact continues to permeate our daily lives. But we’ve recently seen a specific piece of industry news that will have profound implications for all fuel and C-store retailers: The Outdoor EMV deadline.

  9. “Who are the New Solution Providers?” And More From RSPA Inspire 2020 4/13/2020

    One question hanging over our channel has been “Who are the new solution providers?” that will backfill for retail IT resellers who are retiring, merging, or selling. The answer to that question could be found in the Inspire audience – the new faces that are engaging with the retail IT channel.

  10. 2020 RSPA VAR Sales Compensation Study 3/30/2020

    To help retail IT VARs understand sales compensation best practices in a SaaS world, the RSPA commissioned the 2020 VAR Sales Compensation Study. This first-of-its-kind survey reveals reseller compensation structures for SaaS sales vs. traditional sales, what VARs’ top sales reps earn, how they track salesperson performance, and more.