Retail One-Stop

New range of anti-virus products

McAfee Consumer Products, a division of Network Associates, has launched an updated product line that ensures top-level anti-virus and privacy protection for the personal, home office and small business computing market.

McAfee's award-winning security software has been enhanced to include new features, while providing customers with one of the highest levels of security protection available.

It's'OK to eat chips

An Australian company has developed the technology to produce the country’s first 97% fat-free, and 100% cholesterol free, potato chips that are made from real potatoes with no substitute ingredients such as rice.

The technology is expected to be good news for chip eaters who have to date battled with the adverse affects of high fat contents and the poor taste of low fat alternatives.

Harness the Web to boost stock control

Convenience retailers have barely scratched the potential offered by the Internet when it comes to managing inventory, from order to sale says Quatro managing director Peter Henriques.

The value of electronically linking retailers to suppliers to overcome supply chain problems could return much of the more than $1 billion spent by both retailers and their suppliers in supply chain costs each year, he adds.**.

Like doing business in the fast lane?

NCR plans to rev up shopper traffic and put retailers into the fast lane businesswise with a self-service checkout system called - you've guessed it - the NCR FastLane.

The Do-It-Yourself system is already making headway in the United States, where it has been adopted by Kmart, Albertson's, Publix and Shaw's grocery stores. Further afield there are installations in Holland, Italy and Turkey, while recent UK surveys show that more than 55% of respondents would use self-checkout counters when installed at their local supermarkets.

The revolution in how people learn retail

No longer is training viewed as a simple business expense, but rather as an investment in the organisation's future.

Web technology has proven its ability for breakthrough improvements in many business processes. It has allowed businesses to increase revenue and serve its customers better, faster and more cost effectively. Web-based training offers the same breakthrough possibilities for improving not only the company bottom-line, but the training and learning processes within a business as well.

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This bulletin is edited and compiled by retail commentator John Kingsley-Jones. John has worked as an Editor, Chief Sub-Editor and journalist in magazines and newspapers both in Australia and overseas.

In the past 15 years, he has consulted to a range of companies and brands such as Unilever, Mars Confectionery, TipTop, Tooheys, McWilliam's Wines, Goodyear and BMW.

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