Victoria’s Secret and Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS)

With the holiday season right upon us, I couldn’t help but want to get a jump start on my shopping. Nothing stresses me out more than the looks of the mall parking lot a few days before Christmas. With that in mind and all the decorations that started popping up, I couldn’t help but be…

Hate Standing in Checkout Lines? 5 Ways to Speed Things Up

The main reason that I hate running errands, especially during “busy times” at the store, is not bustling aisles, nor is it congested parking lots, but instead: Slow. Checkout. Lines. I realize that nobody likes waiting in lines, but I particularly dislike waiting in long checkout lines, especially with tired, hungry or just plain cranky…

2D Barcode Scanning is Skyrocketing in these 5 Industries

2D barcodes are leaving their mark on lots of industry applications – pun intended! So why has 2D barcode scanning become so prevalent? Smaller Size While 1D barcodes are small, 2D barcodes are (or at least can be) even smaller…less than ½ inch long x ½ inch wide! Why does smaller = better? Simply put,…

How to Optimize a QR Code for Retail

Walking down the aisles while grocery shopping over the weekend, I realized that a fair amount of companies are simply “QR-ing” wrong. Many of the QR codes I saw were either too big, too small, or way too dense. QR codes are often used in retail for three main purposes: Coupons Product information Marketing campaigns…

How To Improve Efficiencies With Mobile Computers

Manual process presents challenges in areas of organization and real-time visibility. Improving your inventory management through the use of mobile computing will reduce errors by improving accuracy, saving time for better resource allocation and give you the visibility you need. This type of inventory management/tracking technology is especially important in the highly competitive and growing…

Point of Sale, Mobile Printing, and Holiday Shopping

I love to shop and if I could do it all the time I would.  There are a few things holding me back though: money does not grow on trees, I have other priorities that come first, and bills that need to be paid. I especially love to shop around the holidays. The sales, the…

For the Love of Football!

Football season is about halfway over and my favorite team is not doing as bad as they usually do. Maybe there is hope their losing curse/streak is almost over.  No I am not going to tell you which team it is, but I will give you a hint. Fans of my team will always be…

Delivering New Era Strategies for Item-Level RFID Tracking

While perhaps most famous for its edgy marketing campaigns, publicly traded American Apparel also managed to gain unintended notoriety throughout its 24-year history as an easy mark for theft – so much so that a novel was published in 2009 under the title, Shoplifting From American Apparel. So, in 2011-12 the company got serious about…