{"id":59,"date":"2013-03-22T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-06-20T22:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:46:15","slug":"rbte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"RBTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We visited the <a title=\"Retail Business Technology Expo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.retailbusinesstechnologyexpo.com\">Retail Business Technology Expo <\/a>this year at Earls Court. The Expo was well laid out with a useful mix of supplier stands and presentation theatres. Key themes were E-Commerce, Payments and of course Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of the two days for us were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keynote presentations from Julian Burnett (John Lewis) and Graham Benson (MandM Direct)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"PayPal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/uk\/webapps\/mpp\/home\">PayPal <\/a>local demonstration, check in and payment using mobile phone and photo<\/li>\n<li>Retail IT review from Martec\u00a0and JDA<\/li>\n<li>Retailing in the mobile age presentation from Richard Mader\u00a0(ARTS) and Brian Kilcourse\u00a0(RSR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We took the opportunity to catch up with past colleagues and make some interesting new relationships. Overall it was worth the visit and we&#8217;ll be going back next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We visited the Retail Business Technology Expo this year at Earls Court. The Expo was well laid out with a useful mix of supplier stands and presentation theatres. Key themes were E-Commerce, Payments and of course Mobile. Some highlights of the two days for us were: Keynote presentations from Julian<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/?p=59\" class=\"read-more\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairwayit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}