August 2013 Archives

Each month, Business Solutions collects and sorts through all the relevant channel news so you don't have to. This month in Point Of Sale And Payment Processing, companies announce new products, new solutions, new collaborations -- and the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announces a preview of version 3.0 standards changes.
Shopify
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ShipStation the leading web-based shipping solution for online retailers, today announced an enhancement to the company's Shopify integration, allowing customers to import orders from Shopify POS. Business owners can now import retail orders directly into ShipStation from Shopify POS, just as they do with their Shopify web store orders.
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Pure-Play vs. Omnichannel: Which do Consumers Prefer?

Nice writeup on how click-and-mortar have jumped ahead in ways past the pure online, and where pure online is still winning (barely).

Omnichannel requires a robotic solution

292px-Rayna_Kapec.jpgA true robot would have mobility, vision, and a prehensile grasp like any primate. At the moment, there's no such machine out there.

You walk in, greeted not by a person, but radiant digital displays that follow the clean lines of the 
CitiBank Logo
building. Cutting-edge technology is propped along the desks and walls, and a mix of customers and employees (sometimes difficult to differentiate) mill about the room with little need for conversation. No, you are not in an Apple store -- you're at the bank. CitiBank

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Forbes - Is This The Future Of Retail? AT&T Thinks So

As consumers shift many of their purchases online, will physical retail stores even have a reason to exist? That's the difficult question AT&T T +0.43% retail executives asked themselves two years ago as they began a process to redesign and reinvent all 2,300 company-owned retail store locations in North America. Today customers in La Grange, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, will be the first to experience a new concept store AT&T leaders believe reflects the future of retail. 

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