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- TSYS Europe Delivers Gift-Card Services in the United Kingdom; HMV Becomes First UK Entertainment Retailer to Offer Gift Cards
- COLUMBUS, Ga., & YORK, England -- TSYS (NYSE: TSS) today announced the successful launch of its retail gift-card technology for HMV, the largest retailer of music, DVD and games in the UK. Working together with The Royal Bank of Scotland Group RBSG, a major provider of financial services for retailers...
- Research articles 2005-03-08
- Gift Cards Sales Won't Save Sputtering Holidays
- Retailers can't count on gift card revenues to salvage a holiday selling season that is looking increasingly abysmal. According to a report from MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, overall retailer sales â€" including those from credit cards, gift cards, checks and cash -- were down between two and four...
- Blog posts 2008-12-26
- Tom Thumb Battles Recession with Loyalty Program
- Retailers don’t always get the most out of technology, preferring to stick with old methods and not taking full advantage of what’s possible, but a crisis like the recession can get the once reluctant thinking about how to get more out of what tools they have, and that can be...
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Supervalu's SHOP 'n SAVE Ignites Gift Card Sales with Fuel Incentives
- Supermarkets want a bigger piece of the Christmas sales pie and the Supervalu-affiliated SHOP ‘n SAVE chain is among those going after their holiday hunk through gift cards. Of course, supermarkets have been carrying the gift cards issued by other retailers for some time now. In fact,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Early Holiday Shoppers on Bargain Hunt, Abetted by Walmart
- Consumers seem to have adopted a set of expectations based on last year’s holiday season that retailers really hoped they wouldn’t. According to the Accenture Holiday Shopping Survey, consumers are entering holiday season 2009 looking for the deep discounts that they experienced as retailers tried to shed...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Retail Roundup: Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Gifts Cards Fly Off Shelves, and More
- Circuit City files for bankruptcy protection -- After 59 years in business, retail giant Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection when the chain's suppliers cut off credit and demanded up-front cash for shipments. Sales at the chain's 1,500 locations have been declining for months, and the company owes...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
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- The top 5 best (and worst) game pre-order trends
- The preorder has long been a staple of the video game retail industry, and with good reason. You get a customer to purchase a game ahead of its release in return for a small trinket. The hope is, that buyer will keep coming back to the store, and in turn,...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Comdata Corporation Expands Gift Card Operations
- BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- ComdataR Corporation, through its subsidiary Stored Value Systems, Inc., has acquired SASH Management, LLC d/b/a Gift Card Solutions GCS a Salt Lake City, UT based company. Comdata is further expanding its retail division, Stored Value Systems, by acquiring GCS. "We are excited to have GCS as...
- Research articles 2006-05-08
- Staying on Top of Recession, Wal-Mart Adds Tesco-esque Financial Services
- In the midst of a recession it is handling pretty well, Wal-Mart is establishing a financial services program for its customers with a particular emphasis on lower income consumers who might not have a checking account. The move in financial services calls to mind Tesco in the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Retail Roundup: Wal-Mart Names New CEO, Sale of Boscov's Approved, More
- New Wal-Mart CEO named -- Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, will soon be under new leadership: Company officials announced on the morning of Nov. 21 that Mike Duke will replace H. Lee Scott Jr. as CEO of the massive chain, effective Feb. 1. Duke, 58, currently serves as the head...
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Retail Sales Beat Last Year's Weak Turnout, But Are Still In a Slump
- Each week, watchers of the retail industry release two different flash reports on the latest sales. The reports, out Thursday, show that late October showed the best numbers in over a year, but as we've seen in housing, car sales, manufacturing, and just about everywhere else, the credit crisis and...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Valero Stores to Offer Pre-paid Gift Cards
- SAN ANTONIO -- Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO) today announced its proprietary gift card program -- providing store customers the convenience of purchasing pre-paid gift cards for as little as $5 and as much as $300. The cards are available at Valero's U.S.-based company-operated stores, which include the more than 4,700...
- Research articles 2005-03-07
- Sun, Oracle save Microsoft's Pink after Danger data disaster
- By Daniel Eran DilgerPublished: 04:00 PM EST Microsoft has announced the restoration of Sidekick users' contacts as the first milestone in recovering data it lost in the cloud computing disaster affecting its Danger subsidiary, while a new source explains why the restoration was possible without a backup and why it...
- News items 2009-10-21
- VenJuvo and Kmart Launch Trade4Credit Online Program Giving Customers Store Credit for Unwanted Electronics
- VenJuvo, an innovative company specializing in consumer trade-in services, announced today it has joined forces with retail chain Kmart to offer the Trade4CreditTM program to Kmart.com shoppers. The Trade4Credit program provides an easy and reliable way for customers to receive a Kmart gift card by turning in a wide...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Micros Systems Inc. of Columbia furnishes Las Vegas-based Pinnacle
- Micros Systems Inc., of Columbia, a provider of information systems to the hospitality and retail industries, said it furnished Pinnacle Entertainment Inc., a Las Vegas-based, diversified gaming company, with its 9700 Hospitality Management System to manage food and beverage and retail operations, and the iCare Gift Card Solution, a guest...
- Research articles 2005-08-17
- Third Parties, Different Developments with A&P, Safeway
- One way retailers have been rolling with the economic punches over the past few years has been by launching marketing programs with third parties that have developed new kinds of promotional strategies. Relationships with third parties can work out well or badly depending upon circumstances. Among...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Save a Shopping Stop, Grab a Papa Card in the Checkout Line; Papa John's Pizza Introduces ''Papa Cards'' Available at More Than 5,300 Retail Locations and Online
- LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Papa John's (Nasdaq: PZZA) is doing its part to make holiday gift giving simple this year. The nation's third largest pizza company today delivered nearly a million "Papa Cards," to more than 5,300 retail outlets throughout the country. The gift cards, available in $10 or $25 amounts...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
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