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Merchandising Initiative Helps Rocket One of the Fastest-Growing US Retailers to the Top of the S&P 500

As retailers worldwide battle the recession, one chain has actually come out stronger. Charlotte, NC-based Family Dollar led the S&P 500 in stock appreciation and has garnered national attention for continued positive revenue, earnings and same-store sales increases. The challenge was to increase sales by ensuring that each store stocks...

Tags: S&P 500, Stock, SAS Institute, Same-store Sales, Retail, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance

Case studies 2009-08-01

Steak N Shake Stirs Up Performance With an IBM Cognos System

The Steak n Shake Company is a full service, casual dining restaurant open 24 hours a day. Offering made-to-order food at the speed and price of fast food, Steak n Shake is one of the oldest restaurant chains in the United States. It needed to achieve sustained same-store sales growth...

Tags: Cognos Inc., Performance, Same-store Sales, IBM Corp., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Case studies 2009-07-01

Best Buy cuts outlook; Sees 'most difficult climate ever seen'

Best Buy said Wednesday that it is facing "rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we’ve ever seen" and cut its earnings and revenue projections. Indeed, Best Buy's same store sales fell a whopping 7.6 percent for October. The company's outlook comes...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Same-store Sales, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Canadian Retailer Picks SAS~ Integrated Merchandise Intelligence Suite to Enhance Customer Experience and Drive Shareholder Value

In the past few years, Mark's Work Wearhouse, the leading Canadian retailer of high-quality casual, business and work apparel and footwear, experienced double-digit same store sales growth due to an entrepreneurial spirit and a clear focus on satisfying its customers' preferences. Satisfying core customers for its clothing/footwear while expanding its...

Tags: Shareholder, SAS Institute, Customer Experience, Same-store Sales, Retail

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Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99

I don't want ......ANY misleading bargain with a two or three year contract. Sell me the HW at a fair price and let me select the carrier and package of my choice.I am not an idiot. RE: Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99When you limit...

Tags: Smart phones, Price-cutting, Palm Inc., Pixi, Palm Pre, Amazon.com Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise

Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Virtual-i Presenter 1.2 (Windows)

ViP at its core is video and PowerPoint presentation recording software, but it goes beyond that to cater for the process of evaluation and improvement. Whether it is just you preparing at home, or a large group practising together, ViP enables you to easily capture both PowerPoint slides and video...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, ViP Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Microsoft may have blown opportunities, but all hope is not lost

Time to let it goThe erosion has started, it cannot be stopped and the longer you try to hold on to something that fleecing away the more you lose.Game over.Android wins.:)Blown OpportunitiesThis reminds me of MS failing to see the internet coming and allowing Netscape to dominate the market. They...

Tags: Operating systems, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile, phone, Windows Monopoly

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Barnes & Noble Nook to make debut November 30?

It's not definite yet, but several tech sites are reporting that the Barnes & Noble e-book reader, Nook, could start shipping as early as November 30. A release during the biggest shopping time of the year is sure to throw the eReader market into a frenzy....

Tags: Barnes & Noble Inc., E-books, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Sales, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-17

AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent

My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Niacin best for raising good cholesterol

i'm a pharmacist...and this article is a rubishDO NOT trust this type of cheap propagandaI'm also a pharmacist...agree!The "study" consisted of only 300 or so "patients"...not large enough to be statistically significant. Not only that, it was funded by a competitor to Zetia/Vytorin!Now, I'm not saying niacin...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, cholesterol, Health Care professional, CEC, Costco, pharmacist, Dana, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Apple nukes Psystar

Why is this legal?What I want to know is *why* is it legal for Apple to say "OSX can only run on hardware we provide"? Wouldn't that constitute a monopoly on OSX since they stifle competition and someone else can't provide OSX software systems? Isn't that the literal...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, OSX, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Memo to AT&T: When you're in a hole, stop digging

AT&T and Apple were made for each otherBoth are whiny multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporations that sell substandard products and services to customers who don't know any better. Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!You said it exactly rightquote- [b]"You see, the company thinks consumers are too dumb to know the difference between 3G and non-3G...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., 3G, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Clearwire: 'Google believes in us'

Google investmentsI wonder if Google will now start investing in Verizon's LTE buildout. The two companies have become quite chummy lately.Has google made any further investments in Clearwire? New marketsA friend of mine is setting up sales territory in the Raleigh and Philly markets for Clearwire. He's totally...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Google Inc., Clearwire Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Point of Sale Software 11.1 (Windows)

Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of sales, returns, purchases, credits, refunds, gift certificates, layaways. Complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory Tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Create user roles, and easily associate permissions with each role you create; this way,...

Tags: Point-of-sale, Microsoft Windows, Agnitech, Tax Code, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Video Rental Software 10.9 (Windows)

Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of sales, returns, purchases, credits, refunds, gift certificates, layaways, complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Create user roles, and easily associate permissions with each role you create; this way,...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Video, Agnitech, Tax Code, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-11

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10