Game teaches retail technology principals

Retail Hero recently released an online game for retailers. The interactive game is designed to give retailers a better understanding of the foundations of retail management from the ground up, according to PRLog.

Starting out with a hot dog stand, the game teaches the principles of how adding technology can help to succeed in the retail business.

The game has five levels, starting the player out as a hot dog vendor and gradually working up to an owner of a national franchise. As the store grows, the player has more opportunity to purchase technology, such as a POS system, bar code scanners and PIN pads, all of which help to reduce shrinkage and increase revenue.

Mocapay is partnering with Quest Retail Technology to allow more than 20 000 Quest point-of-sale systems in North America to accept payment via mobile phone, states Boulder County Business Report.

The system is up and running at the University of Colorado's 53 000-seat Folsom Field, allowing patrons to purchase concession items with their mobile phones. It is serving as a trial for future expansion into other Quest-serviced sports and entertainment facilities.

Mocapay is a mobile payment and marketing company that lets consumers use their mobile phones instead of cash, cheques or credit cards to pay for goods and services at the register and online.

IBM has made its kiosk technology more user-friendly. It has upgraded kiosks into multipurpose retail machines by launching AnyPlace Kios, says SDA India.

The new model includes larger screens, full-motion video, an improved user interface and other features for consumers, as well as technologies designed to make the systems more friendly.

IBM says its goal is to make it easier for companies to manage the kiosks and add new functionality to them, and it is doing that through the use of wireless technology and remote-management software.