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What’s on at The Retail Week Technology & Ecommerce Summit

Innovations across the retail space is the main theme for The Retail Week Technology and Ecommerce Summit that takes place this month.

We’ve picked out a few ‘must see’ sessions surrounding multi-channel, payments and technology systems that would be worth an audience:

• The Future is a Technology-Driven Retailer – on at 09:10 – 09:50 on Wednesday 17 September.

Mike McNamara, Chief Information Officer for Tesco, will share his insight into how technology is dictating the future of

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‘Backoff’ our POS systems

Cash registers have been sited as a means to steal financial data in the US. The Homeland Security Department claims that over 1,000 retailers may have been hacked and infected with a software that sits within their cash register computers.

The software is known as ‘Backoff’ and can be removed from the infected computer, so long as it is found. Up until now the software hasn’t been flagged by anti virus programs. The US government are urging retailers and businesses in general to look out

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Click, collect and coffee

House of Fraser and Caffe Nero have announced a joint venture that will see customers shopping online and collecting orders during their coffee break.

Debuting on 16 October 2014 in Cambridge, a Caffe Nero/House of Fraser store will offer coffee downstairs and a click and collect service upstairs. The move apparently made sense, as House of Fraser has no stores in the city of Cambridge.

Downstairs, in Caffe Nero, it will be coffee as usual with the addition of several tablet and touch screen devices

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Tesco cuts IT spend

After successfully introducing a number of digital technologies to the retail space, supermarket giant Tesco is reportedly cutting costs from its IT budget.

Until now Tesco hasn’t been shy in backing digital technology investments. Online grocery shopping for home delivery, augmented reality mirrors in-store, its own 7in tablet, a data-driven loyalty card scheme – the Clubcard, a digital wallet, a magazine app, click and collect and scan as you shop, to name a few.

However, earlier this

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GAME focuses on omni-channel

GAME is adapting to the digital revolution by teaming up with Microsoft and introducing several digital selling methods. Referring to itself as the UK’s leading omni-channel videogames retailer, GAME sells online, in-store, on mobile and through its app.

Part of its strategy is to sell its computer games, like Xbox and PlayStation, through digital codes which are then downloaded onto consoles. Its GAME Wallet is also a major focus. The virtual wallet lets customers see how much they have to spend

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