The BarCode News: Devoted Exclusively to Barcode Technology

Given L-Tron’s substantial focus on data-collection and automation solutions, it’s no surprise that the L-Tron team relies partially on online resources such as The BarCode News (www.barcode.com) to stay abreast of ongoing developments in barcode technology. Major industries served by L-Tron – enterprises as disparate as healthcare, public safety, retail, manufacturing and supply chain, governmental,…

Consumer Acceptance of Mobile Coupons – Retail Mobile Marketing Part II

Reading Honeywell Scanning & Mobility’s recent white paper, Mobile Marketing: Retail’s Next Frontier, caused me to consider my own susceptibility to mobile coupons, and I was surprised to realize that I do, in fact, use them regularly. For example, Cinemark Theaters emails a weekly coupon and, although I don’t go to the movies weekly, when…

Zebra’s Dart UWB RTLS System – Head’m Up; Move’m Out!

“Hey, Rowdy, you seen that ol’ brindle cow and her new calf today?” “Naw, Mister Favor, sure ain’t.  Should I ride over to the north pasture – see if she might’a got stuck in that buffalo wallow?  Wouldn’t take more’n four or five hours.  Or, maybe I should ride down to the south pasture?  She…

Zebra: Knitting Your IoT Links

Our blogs have covered the Internet of Things concept before, and undoubtedly will again and again as our industry-leading technology partners develop the myriad of innovations required to transform IoT from concept to reality. The fact is, lots of bloggers are focusing on IoT these days, many bemoaning that its promise isn’t being fulfilled more…

What’s my ROI (Return on Investment)?

When presented with an opportunity to automate your warehouse operations, what are the chances you’ll be asked, “What’s the ROI?” Not to worry, calculating ROI on process improvements may not seem as daunting as you think. The first step in determining the ROI to improve your warehouse operations is to take a look at your…

Retail 2D – Creating Customer Service Points

I’ve already dedicated several posts to Retail 2D, a white paper written by London-based Honeywell Marketing Manager, Enzo Capobianco, in large part because it opened my eyes more fully to the dynamics of the mobile-oriented consumer and the resulting potential of mobile marketing strategies. Capobianco terms them the New Connected Shoppers, and I agree that…

Wireless Printing as a Management Tool

Whether they learn it from a seminar or glean it instead from years of hard-earned experience, most seasoned managers eventually realize that, when it comes to motivation and skill, they have four basic categories of employees: Those who have neither the motivation nor skills required of the job, Those who have the motivation, but not…

Overloaded Retail Return Processing – Wireless Printing After the Sale

Because I am primarily a visual learner, I’m helped most by those written descriptions that allow me to envision in concrete images the various stages of the processes they describe, and I had just that experience while reading Zebra Technologies’ white paper, Wireless Printing Delivers Efficiency and Cost Savings in Retail, as it described how…