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- Printronix Solution Improved Bar Code Scan Rate by 48 Percent in Sears' Distribution Center
- Sears needed an integrated total solution to meet its retail distribution bar-code labeling needs. In conjunction, Sears needed a proven solution to recommend to its vendor community. Although Sears achieves high levels of compliance with its vendors, the company seeks new ways continually to improve efficiency in its vendor-retailer supply...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Printronix, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Printers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals
- Case studies
- Sears Canada: Assortment & Store Space Optimization
- Sears Canada is the largest full-line department store in the country. Sears Canada was pressed to continue delivering significant revenue and earnings growth. The company had a strong core application architecture, but had been saddled with legacy systems that were increasingly difficult to maintain, inflexible in supporting data reporting needs,...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Optimization, Accenture Ltd., Sears Canada, Hardware Upgrade, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Marketing, Sales
- Case studies
- Accenture Case Study: Sears Canada
- Sears Canada is a leading player in the Canadian retail industry. Sears Canada knew that a major U.S. retailer was preparing a major expansion into Canada and they wanted to ensure that their cost structure would allow them to compete and win in their changing retail environment. Challenges facing Sears...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Accenture Ltd., Supplier, Sears Canada, Channel Management, EDI, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Enterprise GIS Improves Product Repair Services and Home Delivery
- Sears, the largest repair service provider in the United States, needed to increase the efficiency of a fleet of more than 10,000 mobile workers. The business of supporting a mobile workforce requires good management, and Sears knew that Geographic Information System GIS technology was the answer to routing, a geographic...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., GIS, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Sears Canada Racks Up Sales, Floor Space and Higher Service Levels With StorageTek Virtual Solutions
- Sears Canada (Toronto: SCC.TO) enjoys a significant retailing presence through 165 department, furniture and appliance stores. In time, the company's 30 percent annual data growth began to tax its infrastructure. The Sears Canada IT group selected StorageTek's FlexLine Shared Virtual Array SVA disk system (V960) with 236 gigabytes of capacity...
- Tags: Disk, Sears Roebuck & Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Sales Strategy, Telephony, Taxes, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Sales, Networking, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies
- Sears begins public trial of 2-D bar code technology
- Sears has become the first U.S. retailer to begin a public trial of 2-D bar code, according to eWeek. Other top-tier U.S. retailers that are seriously evaluating the technology includes Best Buy, Gap, and Target. In the United States, there are multiple vendors driving this technology....
- Tags: Phone, Sears Roebuck & Co., 2D, Bar Code, Server, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- New preloaded Linux computers for sale now at Sears and Wal-Mart
- The success of the $199 Everex gOS-based desktop at Wal-Mart has spurred two more releases of low-end, Linux-based computers at two retail giants. Wal-Mart's follow-up to the Everex is the $399 gOS-based Cloudbook laptop -- sporting Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News, Google Maps, YouTube, Firefox, Skype, Facebook and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Sears Roebuck & Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Everex, Linux Computer, Computer, Mirus/Linspire, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Modems, UNIX, Productivity, OpenOffice, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Components, Office Suites, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Retrospective: 10 security blunders
- Every year gets its share of major, jaw-dropping security blunders. This is a retrospective for the 21st century so far, with special attention on 2007. 2007 News While one of the following links is actually from early 2008, they all refer to issues...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sears Roebuck & Co., Air Traffic Control, Rootkits, Aerospace & Defense, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Manufacturing, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Geek Trivia: One tall order
- Which proposed skyscraper will break every type of record for the world's tallest building? On June 5, 2000, Chicago's Sears Tower became the world's tallest building for the second time -- depending on how and when you pose the question. On that date, Sears overtook the...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Sears Roebuck & Co., Sears Tower, antennae, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Expectation, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing
- Technical articles 2007-05-01
- Geek Trivia: One tall order
- AntennasThe proper plural form for antenna, as used in yor article, is "antennas." Antennae are zoological.CN TowerForget about the CN tower in Toronto Canada?CN tower is not a buildingWikipedia's answer to the CN Tower question."From a technical perspective, however, it is not considered a building by the Council on Tall...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, slprice, CN Tower, Sears Tower, Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- High-tech weather service aids business planning
- While you can't escape the weather, predictions about the elements can help stores stock inventory. Trent McNeeley looks at how technology is helping businesses take some of the guesswork out of weather predictions.One of the most important factors affecting consumer behavior is weather. It can create a run on inventory,...
- Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Trent McNeeley, business planning, Sears Roebuck & Co., Frost, Ingersoll-Rand, Strategic Weather Services, Planalytics
- Technical articles 2000-01-20
Additional Resources
- NutriGenie Omega Rx Zone Diet (zip)
- NutriGenie's latest zone diet software is the perfect complement to Barry Sears' Omega Rx Zone, as well as Mastering the Zone, Zone Food Blocks, and the Top 100 Zone Foods. In fact, NutriGenie Omega Rx Zone Diet Software significantly enhances the Omega Rx Zone diet as prescribed by Sears. NutriGenie...
- Tags: Food, NutriGenie Omega Rx, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2005-05-31
- Printronix Solution Improved Bar Code Quality, Saved Sara Lee Intimate Apparel a Quarter Million Dollars in Fees
- Improving the quality of its bar code printing to 100 percent verification was of great importance to Sara Lee Intimate Apparel. With its employees visually validating the bar codes on its 36,000 shipments a day, labels that were smudged or otherwise unreadable often were overlooked. Sears, one of its largest...
- Tags: Bar Code, Printronix, Sara Lee Corp., Retail
- Case studies
- PriceAdvance (Firefox) (xpi)
- The PriceAdvance plugin finds better prices for the products you're browsing while you shop. Currently tracking over 4 million products at: Amazon.com, Abt.com, BestBuy.com, Buy.com, CircuitCity.com, Computers4Sure.com, eBooks.com, JR.com, Kmart.com, mwave.com, nothingbutsoftware.com, Sears.com, Target.com, TechDepot.com, TigerDirect.com, and Walmart.com. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Media Next, Web Browsers, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-05-30
- PriceAdvance (Internet Explorer) (exe)
- The PriceAdvance plugin finds better prices for the products you're browsing while you shop. Currently tracking over 4 million products at: Amazon.com, Abt.com, BestBuy.com, Buy.com, CircuitCity.com, Computers4Sure.com, eBooks.com, JR.com, Kmart.com, mwave.com, nothingbutsoftware.com, Sears.com, Target.com, TechDepot.com, TigerDirect.com, and Walmart.com. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Media Next, Web Browsers, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-05-22
- It's official--Wii use can cause weight loss
- Not if you can't buy one....We have been trying since before Christmas to find a Wii to buy, and nobody (Game Stop, Target, Wal-mart, K-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, Sears, etc...) has them or knows when they are going to get them in. Most of these places now...
- Tags: mbaker@..., feedback, Nintendo Wii
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Meeting Today's Retail Challenges With Enterprise Content Management
- Today's retailers must hone their efficiency in an era of shrinking margins. They must differentiate themselves in the face of increasing competition. And they must manage the customer experience through multiple channels, including the web. This webcast explains how you can meet all these challenges. In this webcast, you will...
- Tags: Webcast, Retail Company, EMC Corp., Enterprise Content Management, Retail, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Reconnect (exe)
- Reconnect is a free eBay shopping tool that lets online shoppers to compare eBay prices & items to items they are shopping for on both eBay and non-eBay sites. Shop over 25 of the Internet's best shopping sites while comparing eBay items from your favorite eBay sellers at the same...
- Tags: eBay Inc., Internet, Productivity
- Software downloads 2006-09-14
- The [i]TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD[/i] is...
- .The tallest building the the world is now a tower in Dubai that is still under construction (1). It is currently 1,680 feet tall. When completed, it will be "above 2,275 feet", about 600 feet TALLER than it already is.This means that if you were standing on the roof of...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, TechExec2, FEET MSL, supplemental oxygen, aircraft, oxygen
- Discussion threads 2007-07-22
- Retailers haven't learned from TJX - still running WEP
- When I blogged earlier this week about TJXs failure to secure their wireless LAN and how it may end up costing TJX a billion dollars, I knew that it was merely the tip of the iceberg with so many retailers still running WEP encryption. As if WEP wasnt already...
- Tags: Servers, Security, Networking, Mobile/Wireless, Hardware, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
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