Tesco to Change POS at Fresh & Easy

NEW YORK — Following a successful initial pilot, U.K.-based Tesco will commence the deployment of the Retalix 10 Store Suite software, with plans to install it in Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets, its U.S. subsidiary, within three years, said Mike McNamara, Tesco’s chief information officer.

Tesco’s initial priority will be stores in the U.K. and South Korea as part of a worldwide rollout, said McNamara at a session Tuesday at the National Retail Federation’s Annual Convention & Expo here. “We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace [our store systems] worldwide,” he noted. Tesco is operating a range of Retalix store solutions across more than 4,000 stores in 11 countries.

The Retalix 10 Store and Sales Channels suite covers all touch points and sales channels, including POS, self-checkout, self-scanning, customer scale, customer kiosk, fuel sales, mobile commerce and ecommerce, as well as a range of store and chain management applications. "Retalix 10 will form the foundation of our store technology,” McNamra added in a statement. “Its extensible, service-oriented architecture allows us to add new features and services for our customers at speed."

“This is the right thing to do," added McNamara at NRF. "It connects the store to the rest of the world.” Tesco should derive cost savings by offloading in-store computing to the cloud, he noted.