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ZEBRA SPONSORED NEWS. In today’s on-demand economy consumers have the luxury of shopping wherever and however they want. Zebra’s 2019 Shopper Vision Study revealed that shoppers still prefer to shop in-store over online, but brick and mortar retailers still need to be able to provide the level of convenience that shoppers are accustomed to.

If you don't ask the right question, you probably won't get the answer you need.

Business software vendor Infor has announced an agreement to acquire Starmount, a store systems provider for large and mid-market retailers.

Bag maker Crumpler is adopting Raymark's store management suite for its retail operations around the world.

Aerohive Networks has announced its "Personalised Engagement ecosystem" aimed at helping retailers get more out of the Wi-Fi connectivity they provide to customers.

Cloud POS provider Vend's latest feature is Bitcoin integration.

Australia’s financial services sector is lagging behind other sectors in online transactions, with the industry urged to lift its game and invest more in IT to maintain competitiveness.

Vouchr wants you to forget about ripping coupons from supermarket dockets and magazine pages. The company has started delivering coupons for well-known retailers such as Domino's, Baskin Robbins and Super Amart via smartphones.

Cloud POS provider Kounta is making it easier for retailers to adopt its system by offering the Kounta in a Box bundle that just requires the addition of a tablet or smartphone.

Motorola Solutions is undertaking trials with major Australian retailers of a range of customer engagement technologies.

PayPal is about to eat even more of the banks' lunch with the release of a free app and dongle that turns a smartphone into an Eftpos device.

The Australian retail landscape is something of a wasteland as far as e-commerce is concerned, with bricks and mortar companies still scrambling to get online. For eBay it represents a sweet opportunity as the company prepares to make its cloud based x.commerce fabric , or middleware, widely available at the end of next month.

Australian retailers are facing a 'paradigm shift' of such magnitude that it is likely 30 percent of all electrical goods sales will be made online within three to five years according to the head of Woolworths' online initiatives.