marks spencer in news
RFID: 'You know you want it'
News Despite high street retailers including Marks & Spencer and Tesco trialling the contentious technology and then ditching it due to the reaction from the public, a report from Forrester Research has found that consumers wouldn't mind being tracked... [07 Jan 2004]
RFID centre to open in Scotland next year
News In the UK Marks & Spencer and Tesco have both embarked on pilots using RFID tags in clothes, CDs and DVDs. Sun is set to turn up the heat in the controversial RFID tracking tag debate by opening a centre in Scotland for European companies to test... [03 Dec 2003]
Privacy groups demand RFID halt
News A number of trials have already taken place this year, involving companies such as Wal-Mart and Marks & Spencer. Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups have demanded a suspension to the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID... [21 Nov 2003]
Egg tops list of supermodel call centres
News Besides Egg, the runners up were Coventry Building Society (in Coventry), EDF Energy (Sunderland), Fujitsu (Staines), Halifax (Leeds), JD Williams (Manchester), Kwik Fit Insurance (Edinburgh), LloydsTSB (Bournemouth), Marks & Spencer Financial... [13 Nov 2003]
DoD wants RFID
News It seems it's no longer just Marks and Spencer and assorted supermarkets that are looking to tracking technology to increase efficiency - the latest organisation to announce its conversion to RFID is the US Department of Defense. [24 Oct 2003]
MIT bows out of controversial RFID tag research
News And UK retailer Marks & Spencer began an RFID trial in one of its London-area stores this month. The winding down of the Auto-ID Centre marks the end of a controversial chapter for the vaunted institution of higher learning. [24 Oct 2003]
Marks & Spencer starts tracking tag trials
News Marks & Spencer has begun a trial of the controversial radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking tags in clothes at one of its UK stores this week as part of plans to improve stock accuracy and product availability for customers. [16 Oct 2003]
ITU 03: C&W looks to allowing global QoS
News C&W says some of its customers, such as HJ Heinz, Marks and Spencer and network equipment giant Cisco, already benefit from its coverage across Europe. Cable and Wireless has started offering an interconnect service aimed at guaranteeing the... [13 Oct 2003]
M&S spends £4m on fraud-fighting card tech
News Marks and Spencer will be one of the first retailers to complete the rollout of new technology to its stores in a £4m project to help cut bank card fraud. But Alastair Barnfield, lead infrastructure technical designer at Marks & Spencer, told... [06 Oct 2003]
Retailers warned over £1.1bn fraud-busting scheme
News All the main banks and card companies along with 1,000 retailers took part in the testing, including names such as Asda, McDonald's, Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Abbey National, Barclays Bank, Egg, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Mastercard, Switch and Visa. [11 Sep 2003]
5 years ago... Corporate giants win domain name case
News Marks & Spencer didn't even offer to negotiate with us," he said. The six companies suing the two men are BT, Cellnet, Ladbroke Group, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Virgin. Representatives from BT and Marks & Spencer were not available for comment. [24 Jul 2003]
Shopping and make-up boost female surfers
News UK websites with the greatest proportion of women users included Abbey National, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Next and Tesco according to the research. The number of UK women surfing the web is rising but men still make up over half of the total... [24 Jun 2003]
Would you jump at the chance of having a chip in your jumper?
News Marks & Spencer's new boss also hinted recently that his company was seriously looking at incorporating such technology into its clothing ranges (see http://www.silicon.com/a55256 ). Wearable computing has so far been little more than a... [05 Sep 2002]
M&S boss: Technology is the new black
News Marks & Spencer's new chief executive is planning to install technology that will tell shoppers when their clothes clash. Roger Holmes, who takes up the post in just over a week's time, is also keen to deploy microchips that will warn people... [23 Aug 2002]
Supermarkets trounce banks in the CRM stakes
News In the UK, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Tesco are spearheading the move into retail banking, providing personal loans and credit cards to customers. Nearly three quarters of UK bankers believe their local supermarket has a better approach... [25 Apr 2002]
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