Who else is blogging about Retail Technology?

The launch of the (Retail Systems blog) at the beginning of February got me wondering – who else is blogging about technology for retailers?

Well here is a list of what I found:

In the true blogger (individual expressing their own opinion) category was Deepak Sharma from Tata Consultancy Services, his blog is (Retail Technology Blog).

The retail technology supplier category boasted integrated systems supplier, K3 (The Retail Blogger), e-commerce supplier Salmon (here on wordpress) and BazaarVoice which provides customer review facillities to e-commerce sites.

Providing round ups of retail news are Indian based Retail News Update here on WordPress. It is hard to find the provenance of the articles but it is a great global round up of general retail news including a lot of technology.

Not really a blog but a collection of press releases is IT Backbones’ Retail News. This has lots of contributions every day from retail technology suppliers.

With the entry of a heavy weight like Retail Systems Magazine is this select band set to grow? How many more retail technology suppliers will add blogging to their marketing strategy?

Here are some additions to the list already:

From De la Salle – College of Saint Benilde information technology students in the Philippines we have Vertsol

Follow the money, follow the customers

And the third prediction for retail systems investment for 2009? E-commerce. Growth of online sales has slowed to only 9.4% in October 2008 but this is still significantly above high street growth! If this is how the customer wants to shop, retailers had better make sure their online offering is attracting the business. Multichannel integration may also attract investment for just this reason.

Another reason for picking e-commerce is that the technology is the shop. A website revamp is the equivalent of a shop fit – and we all know how often a technology project is bounced in favour of a shop fit!

So there we have it – two compelling reasons for the picking e-commerce as an area to invest in in 2009.