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A revolutionary idea that came to a couple of Lowe’s stores earlier this year is spreading to a few more locations, and it will come with some new features, too. This past spring, Lowe’s partnered with Microsoft to pilot the …

Facebook has a new advertising option for brick-and-mortar retailers—dynamic ads for retail. Advertising on the social media site hasn’t been tied to changing in-store inventory data in the past, but the new “dynamic ads for retail will only showcase products …

In an age when Google is often your customers’ first stop to find information about your store, you probably groan—or worse—if your business gets a bad online review. And what customers say about your business online may soon get extra …

Lowe’s is adding more robots to its staff roster. The company plans to start using robots on the sales floors of multiple California stores this fall. The big-box retailer will be introducing LoweBot, a NAVii autonomous retail service robot by Fellow Robots, at 11 Lowe’s …

Retail competitors Lowe’s and Amazon are joining forces to make their technology work together in smart homes. The incompatibility of different brands of devices has hindered the smart home market, but Amazon and Lowe’s are integrating their products so their brands can work together in …

By Kate Klein, kklein@nrha.org, and Hilary Welter, hwelter@nrha.org You’ve read the stories about data breaches, but are the numbers too big to hit home? In September 2014, Home Depot confirmed that hackers used malware, or software designed to steal digitally stored …

To view a PDF of this story, click here. Picture it: A customer walks into your store and receives an alert on his phone about a special on charcoal for his grill. He received the alert because he purchased a …

In the September issue of Hardware Retailing, we looked at six areas of your business where technology can help make your store a true “smart store.” In this video, we’ll further explore those six areas and learn more about how …