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In this January cover story, Stores looks at Disney's new international retail stores and how the retailer is using technology to create "the best 30 minutes of a child's day." Oracle Retail applications run key store operations.

A by-line Gordon Rawling, Oracle Communications on CSPs in the cloud. The coverage can be found on page 17 and 18 of the PDF.

"Mobile is quickly emerging as another channel for retailers," says Kelly O'Neill, director of product strategy for Oracle Retail.

Hosting a cross-industry event like this one isn't easy and Oracle nailed it. A galvanizing topic was the overarching inter-industry trend that no one could have predicted just ten years ago; the "consumerization" of customer-centric industries like telecom, healthcare, and utilities. During a Customer Experience general session panel moderated at the conference by Oracle Retail SVP and GM Mike Webster, I found myself reflecting on the fact that Chris Hall CIO at prepaid mobile leader 2degrees, Penni McLean-Conner, Chief Customer Officer and SVP at Northeast Utilities, Gwen O'Keefe, VP of Analytics and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Group Health Cooperative were all taking cues from Stage Stores CIO Steven Hunter, subject of our March feature story.

You don't have to be a sailing enthusiast to become engrossed in the story of the 2013 America's Cup...

Today, e-commerce - now based on a new software platform from Oracle Commerce - accounts for about 2 percent of the company's sales and is growing at about 40 percent per year. Stage Stores expects it to reach 5 percent to 7 percent of sales - equivalent to its competitors - in the near future. E-commerce also enables the company's Send program, based on NCR Retail Endless Aisle technology, which allows customers to have merchandise shipped directly to their homes from another store or distribution center if their size or color is not available in the store they are visiting.

Kohl's overhauled its core merchandising, inventory, and pricing operations with the launch of a new Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management solution, enabling a unified system of record for inventory to better serve customers across channels, and to simplify its business user experience.

Kohl's has overhauled its core merchandising, inventory, and pricing operations with a new retail merchandise operations management solution from Oracle. The platform will allow the department store retailer to gain one view of its inventory to better serve customers across channels, and to simplify its business user experience.

Forever 21 ensures buyers make the correct purchasing decisions with Oracle Retail

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As online cosmetic shopping booms, leading beauty superstore ULTA Beauty has responded with an enhanced online experience that helps customers...

Nordstrom has implemented new Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management and Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management solutions to support its expansion in Canada.

Table-service restaurant operators know from hard-won experience how vital cost controls are to profitability and growth. Factors as diverse as portion control, inventory management, waste minimization, and labor costs all need to be kept in line in order for a restaurant to maintain acceptable profit margins. If one or more of these factors veers too far off, no amount of volume will make up for the imbalance.