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IBM Retail Store Solutions has been declared winner of the 2008 Point of Sale Green Excellence of the Year award for its SurePOS 700 series of point of sale systems from Frost and Sullivan. This showcases IBM’s outstanding efforts in energy conservation and safeguarding natural resources. SurePOS 700 system is powered by high-performance; energy-efficient processors that help customers reduce system energy consumption by nearly 36 percent.

-       Rajeev Damani

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“Lighting the way to greener retail” is a report by Naulight which I went through recently. The report concludes the benefits of replacing environment unfriendly fluorescent tube with digital lighting in refrigerated display. By doing so a mid size retailer can save up to 50% in their lighting expenses apart from the benefits to the environment.

The report says that fluorescent tubes used in refrigerated display consume excess energy as they produce heat in a chilled environment. Replacing them by digital lighting would result in reduce energy consumption as well as improve merchandising appeal.

Naulight also performed a small test with one of its retail customer whereby it replaced the fluorescent tubes in one side of the aisle with digital lighting and kept other side same. Result was 19% higher sales in the side where lights were replaced.

So, replacing fluorescent tube with digital lighting is a good idea as it will result in reduced energy consumption i.e. reduced cist, increased sales and improved environment.

Full report can be viewed at:

http://www.greenbang.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/lighting-the-way-to-greener-retail.pdf

 - Rajeev Damani

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Riding on the wave of transformation, Where every retailer is changing his color to green just to attract more customers and to show that “they really care”. The brick & mortar models have goals all set! and plans all ready! to implement, even the budget has been allocated for the greenness. The giant retailers like Walmart, Tesco and Target have even rolled out the plan and are trying to become more greener than each other. In this race the pure play click models are not lagging behind, the largest e-tailer - Amazon has joined the green wagon and are storing the green products for their customers. It has launched “Amazon Green Section”, which lists products customers have selected as most environment-friendly, from cleaning supplies to computers to personal solar chargers. Check out the list here

- Prateek Katiyar

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