Revenue building enhancements, such as changes to SoftGloss MAXX, Radius, Pulse and Conveyor, increase wash counts and trim costs for car wash operators. Ryko Solutions Inc., a full spectrum car wash equipment, chemicals and service supplier in North America, is ready for a summer of increased wash counts, reduced costs, and more profitable car washes…
The Evolution of Cash Management
Smart safes are getting smarter and so are the convenience store operators who use them. By Howard Riell, Associate Editor It’s all about the money, so handle it intelligently. Having a smart safe—and training employees to use it effectively—relieves a lot of the traditional headaches associated with handling cash, according to Los Angeles-based retail security…
Go Green, Save Green
How one retail chain saved $20,000 annually by turning to energy efficiency. By Ali Farsai, Contributing Editor Our family has been in the gas station and convenience store business for over 25 years and the past few years, as we are all painfully aware, business has been down. We have had to think “outside the…
Mac’s Rolls Out iSIGN Antennas
Mac’s uses iSIGN technology to gauge message effectiveness and drive ROI. Mac’s Convenience Stores Inc. has expanded its partnership with iSIGN Media Solutions Inc., a provider of interactive mobile advertising solutions, to install iSIGN antennas is approximately 900 additional locations. iSIGN IMS systems are already in place at approximately 500 Mac’s outlets, and mobile interactions…
Cardlytics Releases 2011 Transaction-Driven Marketing Results
Through the Cardlytics platform, retailers nationwide are able to present consumers with relevant messages and offers based on consumers’ actual buying behavior. Cardlytics, a pioneer of Transaction-Driven Marketing, released aggregated advertiser performance results at the NRF Big Show. The 2011 results spanned across multiple retail categories. The results demonstrate Cardlytics’ ability to drive large increases…
Holiday Stationstores Renews Agreement With Revionics
“With a steep competitive landscape and a still fragile economy, there is no room for pricing errors,” says Holiday Stationstores spokesperson. Holiday Stationstores, which operates more than 450 corporately-owned and franchise convenience stores, has renewed its service agreement with Revionics due to the benefits it has obtained by leveraging Revionics’ Life Cycle Price Optimization solutions.…
Mintel Predicts Consumer Trends
As the economy slowing recovers, customers are still adapting. With that in mind, Mintel has predicted nine key consumer trends for the year ahead, examining how long term behavior has been implicated. In 2011, consumers are living for the long term with attitudes inspired by a changed value set. “The effects of the global economic…
Retalix
Retalix is a leading independent provider of software and professional services to retailers and distributors worldwide. Our solutions serve the demand-driven needs of convenience and fuel retailers, grocery chains, independent grocers, and food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods distributors. Retalix personalized software applications automate and synchronize essential operations, encompassing stores, headquarters, and warehouses. We help…
Safe at the Store
The times necessitate that store systems do more–and few store systems are more crucial to a retailer’s success than cash handling and security. While retail technology has focused on point-of-sale (POS) systems that integrate everything from transaction accounting to inventory management, one of the most recent areas of opportunity involves the integration of cash handling…
Remerging Technology?
Zip back to Nov. 4, 2008, when CNN newscaster Wolf Blitzer seemed smitten by some techno-spice his network rolled out during its coverage of the presidential election. It went like this: A 3D image of a CNN correspondent in Chicago was beamed to the network’s New York headquarters, where she appeared in-studio as a hologram.…