Dan Berthiaume

Cruz Bay Solutions and Radiant Systems are teaming to create an on-demand gift card kiosk. The iGift Print on Demand Gift Card Kiosk leverages touch-screen technology to enable customers to design, load and print gift cards. “No credit card data is stored at the kiosk,” said David Perlow, president of Cruz Bay Solutions, which builds […]

Inertia Beverage Group, which sells the REthink Engine wine distribution platform, is releasing REthink Compliance, an online direct-to-consumer wine shipping compliance service for free use by all of its clients. “REthink Compliance allows wineries to sell and market wine direct to consumers and the trade,” said Paul Mabray, CEO of Inertia Beverage Group. “We have […]

Brambles, the parent company of pallet and container pooling services provider CHEP, is buying transportation management systems vendor LeanLogistics for $45 million. Through the acquisition, announced March 3, CHEP is looking to get a top-down view of how pallets move through the supply chain. “LeanLogistics has a tremendous backbone that many of our customers utilize,” […]

JDA Software Group is rolling out Fleet Management version 7.4.1, a transportation and logistics management application. Dawn Salvucci, JDA’s vice president of transportation and logistics solutions, said this latest solution upgrade, announced Feb. 25, is focused on allowing retailers to integrate externalized road networks. “Until now, retailers have had to maintain a proprietary road network […]

Checkpoint Systems is presenting its new Evolve platform as a suite of next-generation theft management tools. Announced at Euroshop 2008 in Dusseldorf, Germany, Feb. 26, Evolve contains a number of features unavailable in previous Checkpoint EAS (electronic article surveillance) solutions. “The system picks up tags in the field better with new algorithms and technologies,” said […]

The service industry consulting firm Service Excellence Research Group March 3 released a comprehensive report entitled, “Influencing the Online Experience.” Based on responses from 503 customers and 311 companies on both the consumption and supply sides of the online experience, the report reveals nothing so much as the fact that successful online retailing largely requires […]

IBM will offer Windows Embedded for Point of Service as a pre-installed operating system option for its IBM AnyPlace kiosk, SelfCheckout and SurePOS 700, 500 and 300 point-of-sale products. Juhi Jotwani, director of marketing strategy for retail store solutions for IBM, said the collaboration between IBM and Microsoft, announced Feb. 26, is a response to […]

Coremetrics is offering its new Coremetrics Connect application as a technology platform that allows Web-based retailers to integrate digital marketing systems such as search, online content optimization, e-mail and behavioral targeting. Coremetrics Connect, announced Feb. 25, was launched with 25 certified technology partners. “Our primary goal for all online business owners is to help them […]

Digital media services provider Fuelcast Media Network is teaming up with satellite networking solutions vendor Spacenet to enable gas and convenience retailers to offer customers video information and entertainment at the gas pump. “A lot of digital signage is about displaying advertising to the consumer,” said David Myers, Spacenet’s senior vice president of marketing and […]

Swedish electronic display provider Pricer is offering the DotMatrix electronic shelf label solution, which officials said is the first fully scalable wireless graphical ESL supported by an ESL platform. Relying on bi-stable graphical technology and a matrix-controlled display with information storage at the display surface, DotMatrix can show paper label information in its exact typeface […]