Newsletter: TechTalk Tuesday

03/29/2013 - 5:02pm

Ahold USA announced it has appointed Paul Scorza as chief information officer for the company, effective April 1.

03/29/2013 - 4:54pm

Forty percent of retailers have no online fraud prevention in place, despite the fact that 85% consider online fraud prevention a high priority, according to a survey by ThreatMetrix, a provider of integrated cybercrime prevention solutions.

03/29/2013 - 4:50pm

RetailSense, a marketing software company that accelerates retail and agile marketing processes, announced that Family Dollar Store has signed a multi-year contract with Retail Sense.

03/29/2013 - 10:46am

Amazon.com announced that it has agreed to acquire social site Goodreads, an online book recommendation community that has more than 16 millions around the globe.

03/28/2013 - 2:29pm

Imagine a store with a back staff of robots, where items appear, almost magically, in the fitting room. A store where customers pay for their purchases in their dressing rooms, without interacting with a single salesperson. You can stop imagining … check out Hointer, an apparel (mostly men’s jeans) shop in Seattle.

03/27/2013 - 4:59pm

Enterprise cloud commerce solution-provider Demandware announced that Jo-Ann Stores has selected the Demandware Commerce platform to support its digital commerce strategy.

03/27/2013 - 10:59am

Survey results released by Facebook marketing firm LoudDoor found that discount grocer Aldi USA ranked fifth on a list of the top 20 companies with the most loyal fans.

03/27/2013 - 10:51am

SLI Systems said Wednesday that Cache has implemented its full-service Learning Search solution for Cache.com, resulting in an 88% increase in the conversion rate among site search users.

03/26/2013 - 5:08pm

Walmart plans to test the use of in-store lockers to hold goods ordered on its Web site until shoppers can pick them up, Reuters reported.

03/26/2013 - 11:30am

By Tim Callan, RetailNext