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Gardeners to benefit from EPoS

Garden centre retailers continue to recognise the benefits of EPoS systems in helping them to provide sufficient product information.

With many products being plant based it is important that a garden centre can offer its customers, many of whom are keen gardeners, a good level of information on the plants that they are buying.

With this in mind CSY Retail Systems, a leading provider of EPoS systems to garden centres and nurseries in the UK, has added an in depth plant library by Joy of Plants to

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Camden Market starts technology investment

Camden Market in London, is starting the first phase of a technology investment that could see retailers in the market grow their business. Wifi and data collection are the first areas of focus.

Visitors to the market will now have access to free wifi while they browse, which in return delivers real-time location data on users to CamdenMarket.com – the company that supports retailers in the area.

Businesses will then have access to the real-time movements and location of users, as well as any

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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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