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ATO, police seize illegal sales suppression technology

Inside Retail

It has been illegal to manufacture, supply, possess, use or promote ESSTs – designed to alter transaction records and avoid paying tax – in Australia since October 2018. A point-of-sale system with such technology may permanently delete transactions, re-sequence transactions, reduce sales values, or misrepresent transactions.

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BuyBuy Baby to Reopen in Time for the Holidays

Retail TouchPoints

New tech integrationswill include iPads and other handheld point-of-sale devices for seamless checkout experiences, as well as the integration of QR codes throughout the store to offer customers access to additional product information. The return of BuyBuy Baby is only the latest revival in the baby retail sector this year.

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Footwear brand Rockport is back under bankruptcy protection

Inside Retail

The group has 30 distributor partners in more than 60 countries and 1100 points of sale. The struggling footwear retailer was rescued from Chapter 11 bankruptcy by private equity company Charlesbank Capital Partners in 2018. The post Footwear brand Rockport is back under bankruptcy protection appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Sephora Rolls Out Mobile POS Technology to 500 Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Now more than ever, it is critical for us at Sephora to be able to adapt to the quickly changing retail environment, and that’s especially important at the point of sale,” said Sree Sreedhararaj, SVP and CTO at Sephora in a statement.

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Excess Wine Inventory Pains France’s Bordeaux Region — Can Retail Optimization Technology Lift the Industry’s Spirits?

Retail TouchPoints

Unfortunately, China had already bored of Bordeaux (and all other wines, including their own ) by 2018, with consumption decreasing by 260 million bottles each year thereafter. In the omnichannel context, inventory is spread out across multiple distribution channels that usually include digital and brick-and-mortar points of sale.

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Starbucks Debuts ‘Inclusive Spaces Framework’ Store in Washington, D.C.

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in 2018 , which features a mural painted by a deaf artist ; and free access to the Aira app, which is designed to help blind and low vision customers navigate stores and the ordering process.

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What retailers can learn from Starbucks’ accessible store design

Inside Retail

A 2018 report conducted by AIR, a behavioural and social science research and evaluation organisation, revealed that the total after-tax disposable income for working-age people with disabilities is about US$490 billion, with discretionary income of around US$21 billion. What does Starbucks’ Inclusive Space Framework entail?