Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), the enterprise mobility company, and Wincor Nixdorf, the leading European provider of IT solutions and services for the Retail and Banking industries, will build on their existing channel partnership by focusing jointly on the market for self-scanning and personal shopping in retail stores.
Symbol’s Portable Shopping System (PSS), consisting of rugged mobile computers, wireless infrastructure components, application software, and device dispenser/checkout stations, are an integral part of Wincor Nixdorf’s new shopping solution called TPiSHOP. This is a complete shopping solution aimed at driving self-service shopping, including mobile self-scanning and personal shopping assistant options.
Besides self-scanning options for shoppers to help speed up the checkout and payment process, the two companies also offer retailers a handheld “personal shopping assistant” for customers, which can carry information on promotions and a store map to help find the best bargains in the shop. The TPiSHOP scheme also offers mobile sales assistant tools and mobile point of sale (POS) tools.
“With TPiSHOP, we are able to offer an integrated solution for mobile self-scanning and personal shopping. In combination with its other store automation products, Wincor Nixdorf thus covers all requirements of a highly efficient and consumer friendly self-service environment for stores. Symbol mobility products form an essential element in this offer to our customers,” says Bruno Missoni, Mobile Solution Manager at Wincor Nixdorf.
“This collaboration with Wincor Nixdorf has come about from listening to the needs of our retail customers who are increasingly focused on the customer experience,” says Alex Price, retail sector director for Symbol EMEA. “With queues getting longer and competition getting stronger, self-service is an increasingly important part of the retail shopping experience. Retailers increasingly risk losing business to competitors, if they are unable to provide their customers with a tailored buying experience.”
This solution is part of the ongoing channel relationship between Wincor Nixdorf and Symbol Technologies and cements their joint commitment to offer retailers comprehensive solutions for their needs.
“The collaboration with Symbol in the market for mobile self-scanning and personal shopping is of utmost importance for delivering state of the art mobile solutions to our customers for consumer self-service. It marks a further step in our joint activities in the market for enterprise mobility,” says Kai Jungclaus, Head of POS-Peripherals Marketing at Wincor Nixdorf.
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About Symbol Technologies, Inc
Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility Company™, is a recognized worldwide leader in enterprise mobility, delivering products and solutions that capture, move and manage information in real time to and from the point of business activity. Symbol enterprise mobility solutions integrate advanced data capture products, radio frequency identification technology, mobile computing platforms, wireless infrastructure, mobility software and world-class services programs. Symbol enterprise mobility products and solutions are proven to increase workforce productivity, reduce operating costs, drive operational efficiencies and realize competitive advantages for the world's leading companies. More information is available at www.symbol.com.
About Wincor Nixdorf
Wincor Nixdorf is one of the world’s leading suppliers of IT solutions to banks (private client banking) and retailers. The company’s extensive portfolio, consisting of hardware products, software, consulting, maintenance and other services, is aimed at reducing the cost and complexity of business processes within branch operations at the same time as improving service to the customer. The company has more than 7,000 employees and made net sales of € 1,744 million last fiscal year. Wincor Nixdorf has a presence in over 90 countries and has its own subsidiaries in 32 of these. In terms of dispatches of automated teller machines (in-house estimates) and dispatches of programmable “ePOS” electronic point-of-sale units (source: Clarendon Report, April 2004), Wincor Nixdorf is one of the three leading suppliers worldwide. We also hold the Number 1 position in Europe in programmable ePOS systems, as measured by dispatch volumes. The main production facilities are at corporate head office in Paderborn, Germany, and in Singapore.
