Talkin Tech: Google’s UPC Requirements: The search engine giant’s new UPC...
In the early 1980′s Walmart famously introduced barcode scanners in their stores to speed up the checkout process. Back then only 45% of their most successful products carried UPC codes. After...
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Helping customers and sourcing product is the daily work of running a store, and you tend to take for granted the conditions of your local market. For example, the prevalence of price posting in the...
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HEY BARTENDER 4th Row Films debuted their documentary Hey Bartender at SXSW in March. The film, written and directed by Doug Tirola, focuses on two bartenders—Steve Schneider at Employees Only in New...
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DEWAR’S ‘3-B’ PRINTING PROJECT Dewar’s is showcasing its latest innovation, Highlander Honey with the 3-B Printing Project. That’s not a typo. The 3-B Printing Project is a twist on 3-D printing,...
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WANNA BE A GINSIDER? The free mobile app from Seagram’s Gin, Ginsider, is available now to iPhone and Android users. Scanning Seagram’s Peach and Pineapple Twisted bottles reveals exclusive video on...
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ID Check-Up
Worried about a crackdown on selling underage by your local liquor cops? Concerned about shrinkage from customers who use phony IDs when they pay with fake credit cards? Of course, all beverage...
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New App Vaults Rebates into Digital Age
Apps abound. Which ones matter? It’s not always the ones that create something new, but rather apps that make it easier for people to do something they have long been doing. In the case of rebate...
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Delivery Apps Take a Turn
Drizly leads a fundamental shift from being about delivery to being about shopping By Jeff Siegel Are the on-line liquor delivery apps—the jumble of companies with names like Drizly, Klink, Lash,...
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