Industry News - April 10th, 2009
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Demandware Launches SiteGenesis Apparel Storefront
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Demandware introduces the Demandware SiteGenesis apparel storefront,
purpose-built and optimized for developing apparel and department store
e-commerce sites. Built on the Demandware E-Commerce Platform, the
SiteGenesis storefront combines best practices in site design,
usability, site merchandising, information architecture and technical
architecture to provide a blueprint for building next generation
e-commerce sites. Built on a modular and extendible technology
architecture, the SiteGenesis storefront also includes a library of
e-commerce components for speeding the development of highly customized
sites.
The SiteGenesis storefront is designed to be a point of origination for
the development of fully-customized sites based on proven best
practices. E-commerce sites built from the SiteGenesis storefront can
be customized by retailers' in-house teams without Demandware
involvement, using the complete functionality of the Demandware
E-commerce Platform and the User Experience Studio, Demandware's native
Integrated Development Environment.
Highlights of the Demandware SiteGenesis apparel storefront include:
Apparel-Optimized E-Commerce Features - more than 250 apparel-specific
features such as quick view product details, AJAX-based search
refinements, Shop by Outfit, rules-driven merchandising slots, and
product picker
Selection of Design Templates - professionally designed templates that
can be used as is or fully customized to retailers' unique branding
requirements
Annotated Wireframes - more than 150 pages of documentation that
describstorefront behavior and functionality to help retailers leverage
the SiteGenesis storefront and associated best practices
Optimized Merchandising Model - a fully built apparel merchandising
site framework, including a synonym dictionary, multiple price lists,
preconfigured promotions, dynamic customer targeting and more
Multi-Site Architecture - a framework for launching multiple sites
efficiently, including support for multiple languages and currencies
Plug-and-Play Integrations - pre-built integrations for essential third
party technologies, such as email, analytics, payment, campaign
management, and an extensible integration framework for proprietary
enterprise applications
Component-Based Development Environment - a development environment
that includes best-practices code and functionality that can be used,
extended and shared to develop highly customized Web sites
PCI Security - adherence to the latest PCI DSS level 1.1 compliance
standards, freeing up time and money that would be allocated toward
Website security
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Big Y Selects Revionics for Strategic Pricing Software Partner
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Big Y Foods selects Revionics for
its pricing software. Big Y will begin the implementation of the
complete Revionics suite leveraging the Revionics Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) delivery approach.
"We have been strong believers in strategic pricing technology for many
years and we are looking forward to working closely with Revionics to
ensure that our pricing is aligned with customer needs and
expectations," says Phillip Schneider, vice president of sales at Big Y
Foods. "Revionics strikes a very good balance between solution maturity
and vendor agility, and they demonstrated an excellent commitment to
customer partnership."
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Roots Selects Store Ops-Center for Store Communication, Execution Management
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Roots Canada deploys Store Ops-Center store communication and
integrated task management system. The retailer uses Opterus Store
Ops-Center to help increase store productivity by up to 20 percent
through more effective store communications on tasks that need to be
completed, issues that need to be resolved and other general store
communications.
Other modules such as Electronic Forms and Document Library help reduce
the distribution of paper-based information and streamlines store
efficiencies.
"The connection between the corporate office and the stores is critical
to the success of our business," says Jarar Kazmi, executive director,
retail operations, Roots. "Employees must feel comfortable letting the
head office know of any store issues that need to be addressed. It is
also important for the corporate office to be attentive to employees'
needs and to promptly follow up on their requests. Opterus Store
Ops-Center more than meets our needs to cultivate this connection and
also enables the entire retail team to be very clear on expectations
and strategies so that they are executed in a timely and consistent
manner."
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Target Opening 27 New Stores, Including First in Hawaii
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The mega-mass merchant plans to open include 21 general-merchandise Targets and six full-grocery SuperTargets.
The state getting the most stores is Texas, which is getting three general-merchandise stores and three SuperTargets.
The two new Hawaii stores are located in the Honolulu area. With these
new openings, Target now has stores in every state except Vermont. It
opened its first Alaska stores last year.
Each general-merchandise store employs 150 to 250 team members and is
about 128,000 square feet in size. Each SuperTarget store employs 200
to 300 team members and is about 186,000 square feet in size.
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Ethel Austin Bring Au Naturale onto Island Pacific Platform
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Ethel Austin, a UK-based retailer, brings Au Naturale, its new
home-wares offering onto the Island Pacific platform. The retailer,
which has 270 stores across the UK, took over Au Naturale (which has 40
stores), in May 2008.
A partner of Island Pacific's since 1993, Ethel Austin uses all modules
including merchandising, warehousing, sales audit and finance. The
company has taken every technology upgrade released since then.
Au Naturale was brought onto the Island Pacific platform because of its
multi-company approach. The technology includes enough flexibility to
combine the product files, order and warehousing, but enables separate
sales information to be processed.
"We were keen to bring everything onto one platform, so needed to use
Island Pacific across the 30 stores that Au Naturale was being
introduced to," says Martin Draper, group head of IT at Ethel Austin.
"This was purchased at no additional cost, because of the way our
existing license works. Not only has this saved purchasing costs, but
it has also created real efficiencies with merchandising and buying
work flow."
Sportsman's Warehouse to Shutter 23 Stores
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Sportsman's Warehouse will shutter 23 of its stores nationwide as the Midvale, Utah-based retailer struggles to reduce debt.
In addition to closing stores, Sportsman's also plans to sell 15
outlets to UFA Co-operative Ltd. of Calgary. The store closures and
sales are expected to help Sportsman's cut its bank debt to a more
manageable level.
Sportsman's most recently has had annual revenue of about $750 million, based on 67 stores.
Sporting goods retailers are among those that have suffered from the
economic meltdown that has consumers cutting back on discretionary
spending.
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