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Volume 3 - Issue 34
9/1/2009
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On Flying Cars and Mobile Wallets
By Nikki Baird, Managing Partner
It seems that the most certain indicator that the future will have "arrived" is not anything to do with the internet or related technologies. It's the flying car. Most often I hear it in the negative, as in "It's 2009 - where are the flying cars?" Apparently, the future isn't here yet.
As much as I would love to see flying cars in the future (as long as it leads away from a future of "sky jams" and "air rage"), I feel that this is... Read more
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Desperate Times and Desperate Measures: The Increasing Role of Loss Prevention in a Brutal Economy
By Steve Rowen, Managing Partner
With the economy as it is, retail theft is on the rise. One out of every ten Americans is expected to be out of work this fall, rendering a bump in retail shrink – due to organized and individual shoplifting as well as employee theft - less than shocking. In fact, In RSR’s 2008-2009 annual Loss Prevention Report, Loss Prevention and Beyond: Survival of the Fittest, retailers observed that even with a higher quality labor pool, hiring constraints make it harder to take advantage of that labor pool. We therefore recommended retailers use technology to make their existing employees smarter.
According to a recent article in RetailWeek, several British retailers have been forced to do just that... Read more
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Is There Significant New Demand for Retail BI?
By Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner
Even as retailers’ access to information has grown, the ability to turn that information into actionable tasks has languished. Fractured planning processes have been joined by fractured execution mandates and siloed processes as inhibitors to retailing success, most especially in selling environment. Awash in reports, emails, portals and standards, operators are more challenged than ever to execute on a unified set of corporate priorities. Retailers are calling for a return to simplicity, cooperation and transparency, even as they call for more speed in decision-cycles in all phases of operations.
RSR believes that actionable information derived from real-time business intelligence is critical to... Read more
RPW Will Be Absent Next Week, September 8th, Returning September 15th. A Safe and Happy Labor Day Holiday to All of our US Readers!
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