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To Host or Not to Host

By David Dorf on April 28, 2009 10:28 AM

On the heels of my posting regarding cloud computing for retail, I found an interesting article on A.C. Moore's hosted merchandising implementation. A.C. Moore, an arts & crafts retailer with 136 stores and 60,000 SKUs, knew it needed to improve...

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Surf's Up with Oracle Retail POS

By David Dorf on November 4, 2008 6:53 AM

Our general manager at Oracle Retail gets jazzed about go-lives as much as he does new sales, so when the opportunity to visit Abercrombie & Fitch's first store to go live on our point-of-sale software, I jumped at the chance....

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WEPOS or Linux?

By David Dorf on October 29, 2008 4:45 PM

Retailers that have a Java-based point-of-sale (POS) have the distinct advantage of running on almost any cash register hardware. That puts them in a better position to negotiate with both hardware and operating system vendors. Another advantage is that they...

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