Monday, August 4, 2003
Retailer Tesco Purchases 10,000 Pocket PCs
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "THOUGHT" @ 05:00 AM
"Leading supermarket retailer Tesco has announced it is to purchase nearly 10,000 of Intermec's market leading handheld computer device, the 700 Series Color, for use throughout its UK store network", begins this press release which discusses a major win for Intermec, Microsoft, and Tesco. The Intermec 700 Series integrates GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth, WiFi and a bar code reader into a ruggedized Pocket PC which uses Intel's 400 MHz X-Scale processor to move things around.
The background story is one that we will see many, many more of in the near future: "Tesco's existing handheld terminals were reaching the end of their working lives and the company chose to take the opportunity to upgrade to the latest, high performance technology. The retailer needed a rugged device that offered radio frequency (RF) mobile communication and could accommodate moves from a text-based to a graphical platform as well as from terminal emulation to Microsoft's Internet Explorer."
How will Tesco use Intermec's Pocket PCs? The press release says: "Tesco is using the devices for in-store price mark-downs (in combination with a portable printer), shelf re-cubing (printing new shelf-edge labels), logging general stock transactions and producing planagrams of product layouts and shelf designs. They are also being used in the field for checking delivery accuracy using GPRS connectivity to feed back data in real time and to check accuracy of deliveries against invoices."
The background story is one that we will see many, many more of in the near future: "Tesco's existing handheld terminals were reaching the end of their working lives and the company chose to take the opportunity to upgrade to the latest, high performance technology. The retailer needed a rugged device that offered radio frequency (RF) mobile communication and could accommodate moves from a text-based to a graphical platform as well as from terminal emulation to Microsoft's Internet Explorer."
How will Tesco use Intermec's Pocket PCs? The press release says: "Tesco is using the devices for in-store price mark-downs (in combination with a portable printer), shelf re-cubing (printing new shelf-edge labels), logging general stock transactions and producing planagrams of product layouts and shelf designs. They are also being used in the field for checking delivery accuracy using GPRS connectivity to feed back data in real time and to check accuracy of deliveries against invoices."
