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<item><title>E-commerce's New Dimension</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  Virtual Shopping
For the first few years e-commerce was taking hold, it was challenging for sites to get close to delivering the in-store experience online. If a Web site could deliver an experience 80 percent as good as in-store, the rest could be made up with the superior inventory, convenience a...]]></description>
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<item><title>Accelerating Checkouts</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:57:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  Cash Alternatives
Retail payment technologies are undergoing radical change, as small fobs dangle off key chains to pay for everything from gas and tolls to books and coffee. Alternative online payments are soaring in popularity-especially among younger consumers-and cell phones across the world ar...]]></description>
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<item><title>Ringing Up Instant Savings</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:50:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  Mobile Marketing
Picture this: A photography lover is taking her latest acquisition-a black-and-white Ansel Adams landscape-to a gallery for framing. After negotiating the price, she remembers seeing a special offer for a 20 percent discount. She doesn't need to run home to find the flyer or print ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Plenty Of Widescreens For Everyone</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:46:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  In-store Experience
For consumers, there's nothing more frustrating than being told a store has 10 of the latest 1080-dpi HDTVs, only to discover on arrival that the item is sold out. Well, perhaps there's one thing more frustrating-actually buying the big flat panel and being told it's not availab...]]></description>
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<item><title>New Strategies Have Shoppers Doing Doubletakes</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:37:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  Ever since Richard Sears sent his first direct-mail ad for watches and jewelry in 1888, retailers have been remotely targeting consumers in numerous ways. Today's options include catalogs, cell phones, call centers, e-commerce sites and physical storefronts.
These strategies collectively are known ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Using RFID to Zoom Through Checkout in 30 Seconds or Less</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:52:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Are RFID's proponents dreaming? Maybe not. But what's technically feasible may not make economic sense.   -  Wal-Mart Chief Information Officer Rollin Ford envisions a time when shoppers will be able to approach a checkout line and tally up and pay for their purchases in 30 seconds or less by using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
But four years after Wal-Mart unveiled its wide-ranging pl...]]></description>
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<item><title>RFID Price Tags Stay High, Holding Back Adoption</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:48:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[RFID tags and readers have become less expensive, but the magic 5 cent per tag level has been elusive.   -  It's a classic Catch 22 situation. In order for prices on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to fall to what has been described as the &quot;magic 5-cent&quot; mark, manufacturers need to see more wide-spread adoption of the technology.
But with the price of tags remaining stubbornly high #8212;in th...]]></description>
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<item><title>Retailer Uses RFID to Help the Sartorially Challenged Sex</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Red tie with that white shirt? Men buying clothes get automatic suggestions.   -  At a high-end department store in Germany, the future of RFID technology is now on view. 


At Galeria Kaufhof in Essen, Germany, the retailer Metro Group is using RFID technology not just to track individual apparel items from supplier to distribution center to checkout, but also to help recomme...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cover Story: Wal-Mart's Faltering RFID Initiative</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:02:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In 2003, Wal-Mart became the great hope of a new technology. But things haven't worked out exactly as planned.
   -  Despite some big strategic changes, the retail giant insists it's not retreating on its investment.


Story Guide:

Falling Short of Expectations

The RFID Promise

Making its Case
Sales-Floor ROI
Where Next?


Also in This Feature:



Base Technologies: Wal-Mart's Applications, Pr...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Leave Iraq</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:49:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  If the U.S. decides to pull out of Iraq, its military forces won't exit immediately #8212;they can't. Moving 160,000 troops and tons of equipment is a logistics process that, even if done right, will take two years.

Story Guide:

A Huge Logistics Challenge

Reversing the Supply Chain

Shipp...]]></description>
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<item><title>Digital Supply Chain: Warner Bros.' Next Big Release</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The entertainment industry is rushing to replace an outdated film production and distribution system with a nimble digital supply chain.   -  When Warner Bros. Entertainment established an umbrella division, the Warner Home Entertainment Group, last October for all business units involved in the digital delivery of entertainment to consumers, it was fast-forwarding the most important technical transaction the studio has made in decades. &quot;...]]></description>
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<item><title>Just-in-Time: Has Its Time Passed?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Has this concept for supply management outlived its usefulness? Experts weigh in.   -  For years, other companies have been trying to imitate the just-in-time (JIT) supply chain practices exemplified by Toyota. But the basic assumptions behind JIT itself may need to be reexamined in a changing economy. 
One assumption is that JIT will always be cheaper than keeping parts on hand. But...]]></description>
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<item><title>P G's End-to-End RFID Plan</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:46:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Consumer products giant tests benefits of radio tags by tracking shaving products from its manufacturing plants to retailers' back rooms&amp; and beyond.   -  Radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging provides a way for companies to track products through the supply chain, from manufacturing plant to distributor and, ultimately, to a retailer's backroom storage area. Procter   Gamble, one of the world's largest consumer goods companies, has launched t...]]></description>
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<item><title>Wal-Mart's New CIO Says He'll Back RFID</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:48:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rollin Ford's predecessor, Linda Dillman, is largely credited with galvanizing the RFID industry and launching Wal-Mart to rock star status in the RFID community.   -  Suppliers and RFID vendors alike can breathe a sigh of relief. 
Wal-Mart Stores' new CIO, Rollin Ford, said in an in-house CIO Summit on April 13 that he plans to stand behind the RFID technology march at Wal-Mart, much to the same degree his predecessor did.
Ford, the former executive vice presid...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Limited Designs Supply Chain to Begin and End With the Customer</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:31:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bottlenecked distribution center convinces Limited Brands to rebuild it supply chain systems from the bottom up, making it transparent to staffers, and responsive to customers.   -  Four years ago Limited Brands, the $9.4 billion specialty retailer, learned about the need for supply chain visibility  and the cost of not having it in place  the hard way.

&quot;We had a pretty significant catastrophe,&quot; Paul Matthews, the company's senior vice president of supply chain transformatio...]]></description>
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