Retailers may be fined up to 10,000 yuan (1,430 U.S. dollars) for providing free plastic bags to shoppers, the Ministry of Commerce has proposed.

Fully Integrated EPOS system running on standard PC solves accounting and inventory management headaches for small shop owners and convenience managers

The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will move design and development of its apparel to New York in a bid to revive declining clothing sales and cut production time.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the IBM Retail Integration Framework, an enterprise software architecture designed to help retailers accelerate the implementation of new customer focused strategies.

Microsoft Corp. today announced that AccessVia, an industry leader over the past two decades in development of in-store signage, labels and e-commerce applications for retailers, has selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 to integrate all its internal data and processes.

Nokia announced the grand opening of the first Nokia Flagship Store in Mainland China, the only stand-alone Nokia Flagship Store and the largest in the world. The Nokia Shanghai Flagship Store is the seventh of 18 planned Flagship Stores and is the second in the region following the opening of the premier Asia Pacific Flagship Store in Hong Kong.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced powerful new eco-friendly point-of-sale models that combine new proactive systems monitoring features and a choice of high-performance, yet energy-efficient processors, enabling large retailers to avoid costly unexpected downtime, and reduce system energy consumption by as much as 30 percent.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Merkur Group, a Slovenian-based retailer, is achieving new levels of control over its business by deploying IBM Tivoli to manage its critical IT assets and systems.

One of Britain’s leading retailers, House of Fraser, has decided on ethical grounds to stop selling the luxury foodstuff foie gras.

StoreVault, a NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) division, today announced that Teavana, a specialty tea retailer, handpicked the StoreVault S500 to efficiently manage its staggering data increase and improve its backup and recovery processes.

It has long been shown that fairness between business partners yields a better relationship. Now, research from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota shows that for manufacturers and retailers, thinking about what is best for the entire channel has higher payoffs than just looking out for one firm's best interests.

"Extreme cherry pickers," grocery shoppers who buy only sale items and nothing else, do not harm retailer profits significantly as generally is believed, according to a forthcoming study in the Journal of Marketing Research.