Past Times has gone live with MetaPack to assist in the management of its three carriers and to provide the saleable despatch solution required for planned growth.
Adrian Spence, head of e-commerce, notes: “We’ve only had MetaPack installed for a couple of weeks but we are very impressed and the benefits have become immediately obvious”
pointOne has equipped Bloomsbury Bowling with a new EPoS solution
Matalan has chosen Quantum Retail’s Q software to optimise store-level replenishment activities
Pay4Later has introduced a retail finance solution enabling e-commerce outfits to offer customers such products as interest free and classic credit

WE Fashion has selected Wipro Retail to implement a warehouse management and merchandise system
Time is running out to enter the 2010 Retail Systems Awards, which will take place on Thursday, 28 October at The Grosvenor House Hotel
Monsoon has selected Venda’s SaaS e-commerce platform to power new Accessorize websites across Europe and the US

MandMDirect.com has seen a six per cent sales conversion rate from mobile promotional campaigns over the last four months
Ryman has redeveloped its website (www.ryman.co.uk) following an investment in a new e-commerce infrastructure
Freemans has signed a contract with Webloyalty to drive repeat business to the online stores, freemans.co.uk, grattan.co.uk and lookagain.co.uk
HMV UK has selected TXT e-solutions to strengthen its demand forecasting and replenishment processes
Sanderson has won a contract to supply its Elucid solution to James Inglis
Online sales in June rose a fifth year-on-year, boosted by a combination of warm weather and a busy sporting calendar
Liz Morrell examines an in-store media sector that has learnt from past mistakes and is pressing ahead with numerous innovative projects
With the general election done and dusted, David Adams asks: what advice from the world of retail and retail technology should politicians take as they seek to understand the issues that confront the wider economy?
Economic pressures mean retailers are increasingly looking to outsource technology and business processes to cut costs and focus on core skills
Emerging solutions and uncertainty over the interpretation of current PCI DSS standards is leading to reluctance among major retailers to become compliant and is instead prompting them to call for greater clarity from the PCI Security Standards Council. Glynn Davis reports
In early May, leading retailers and technology suppliers gathered together in London for a merchandise planning roundtable covering internationalisation and cross channel challenges, social networking, m-commerce and SaaS and cloud computing models. Retail Systems reviews the event
Is technology winning the battle against card-not-present (CNP) fraud? Richard Thurston reports