I just got a call from the head of loss prevention for one of our largest customers. This is not strange at all as I get fairly frequent calls from her to discuss issues or the timeline for bug fixes etc.
What is strange – in a wonderful way – is the two reasons she was [...]
In a tough economic environment, Walgreen posted an impressive 12% increase in Q4 profits. Congratulations Walgreen!
Given the roller-coaster stock market, the cynic in us may attribute this to a surge in the sale of pain relievers and antidepressants. But while revenues did increase, Walgreen executives attribute a portion of their improved results to cost-cutting.
We’ve posited on these [...]
A September 25 article in Nation’s Restaurant News by Alan Liddle touts a new SaaS service from MenuCalc that can be used to compute nutritional analysis of menu items. With an increasingly health conscious nation, nutritional analysis is rapidly moving to be a critical part of many restaurants. According to Dawn Saxton, co-founder and [...]
Andy Kessler, a former hedge fund manager and author of “How We Got Here” (Collins, 2005), wrote an interesting opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal’s on-line version about the current “bail out” bill being debated in Congress.
The amount ($700 Billion) is staggering, but Mr. Kessler rightly notes that the government is getting something for their [...]
It is good to see more SaaS activity in the video market. I was at a function this evening hosted by one of the leading VC and start-up focused banks, Silicon Valley Bank. In addition to having a nice time drinking wine and eating some nice appetizers, I was able to re-connect with another local entrepreneur [...]
I am not an expert in loss prevention. I have only been in the video world for the last three years. Despite my limited experience, however, I have picked up a fair bit about how our customers use exception reporting and video to help aid their loss prevention efforts. The other day I was having [...]
Anyone who worked with large scale computer networks in the 80’s and even early 90’s probably observed some changes that are perhaps similar to what’s happening today with Network Video.
Back then it was data communications (net-heads) and telecommunications (bell-heads) which were converging. In the late 90’s and early 00′ VoIP further converged telecom and datacom. [...]
I was talking with my kids about the various customer trials we are conducting at Envysion, and I mentioned a certain chain that sells lots of video games. My son immediately jumped on the topic with an interesting marketing idea.
Like many others, it took Ted about 6 months of diligent calling, a few 6 am [...]
Chances are, you’ve eaten a stack of pancakes at IHOP at least once in the last 50 years. This year, IHOP celebrates the opening of its first restaurant 50 years ago in Toluca Lake, California. Until a marketing program introduced the acronym “IHOP” in 1973, the iconic blue-roofed structures were known by the longer name “International House of Pancakes.” The [...]
I’m a huge fan of the weekly publication Nation’s Restaurant News. This week’s edition had a great article in the Opinion section titled “Stopping employee theft a fast, cheap way to boost profit” by Kevin Lynch.
The article does a wonderful job detailing how a reduction in shrink of just 1% (as a percent of sales) can lead to [...]
