Technology
Europe Trails the U.S. in EDI
NEW YORK -- The kind of bickering that has kept Europeans from ratifying a common currency is also preventing them from agreeing on computer-to-computer communication standards -- standards that could make Quick Response a reality in Europe.
"I...
— Jun 9, 1994
Stern's, Talbots and Saks Report Progress on QR
FORT LAUDERDALE (FNS) -- In a business climate where today's technology could mean tomorrow's returns, retailers are striving to automate distribution and inventory management.
Representatives of Saks Fifth Avenue, Talbots and Stern's discussed...
— Jun 9, 1994
In Your Face or Out of Sight, Store Have a Choice in EAS
NEW YORK -- Electronic-article-surveillance systems have been the eyes of store security guards for years, but new designs are letting retailers make those systems as visible or inconspicuous as they choose.
Companies across retail venues rely...
— Jun 9, 1994
Home Shopping Poised for Growth
NEW YORK -- Experts from designer Bill Blass to communications giant AT&T to the marketing gurus at Management Horizons predict home shopping will expand and solidify its share of the $2 trillion retail marketplace in record time.
Their...
— Jun 9, 1994
Logistics Key to Sears Overhaul
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Sears, Roebuck and Co. may be minus a catalog, but cataloging the company's day-to-day operations is the heart of its five-year plan to improve profitability.
"We will do 1998's business on fewer dollars than 1994's,...
— Jun 9, 1994
Low Tech Looking Good
NEW YORK -- As expectations for home shopping platforms rise and fall faster than hemlines, some companies have come to the conclusion that low tech, rather than high tech, is really the cutting edge.
Interactive broadband television, once the...
— May 31, 1994
Wonder Men
They could be two kids in a candy store, but they're two grown men in the Sony Wonder Technology Lab. The analogy holds, though. Edwin Schlossberg and Guy Leibler have designed the Nineties total fantasy environment for kids, a four-floor interactive...
— May 23, 1994
