Conexxus In the News

What began as a plan to push convenience-store dispensers to EMV compliance has become a drawn-out, expensive and complicated problem for stores selling gasoline. Visa, Mastercard and other card companies managing EMV  eventually pushed a 2017 deadline further back to 2020 when Conexxus and other industry advocates illustrated the burden the liability shift was placing on retailers.....

This month’s Top Women in Convenience (TWIC) Talk subject is Jenny Bullard, former chief information officer at Flash Foods and now manager of member engagement at Conexxus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to standards, technology innovation and advocacy for the convenience industry. In 2015, Bullard was one of the five women celebrated by TWIC as Women of the Year.....

CSP honors the c-store industry's most forward-thinking and tech-leading retailers, including Conexxus' own Jenny Bullard and Conexxus Data Security Committee chair, Kara Gunderson, POS Manager at Citgo Petroleum.   

Today, most all convenience store retailers have a back-office interfaced to their point of sale (POS). With back-office software, retailers have the capability of capturing sales data by transaction, by item, deposits and credit card information, etc.  This enables home-office enterprise systems to receive this information electronically and reconcile various accounts quickly and accurately. This process reduces the potential of theft or just general incorrect data flow....

Splitting hairs between what business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence (AI) mean could be a frivolous game of semantics, but for retailers hoping to unlock the transactional secrets stored in their point-of-sale (POS) registers, understanding the differences could prove crucial, according to a Tech Edge (co-sponsored with Conexxus) session speaker at the 2018 NACS Show in Las Vegas.  

"We are extremely pleased to have a person of Jenny’s background and expertise joining the Conexxus staff," said Conexxus Director of Standards Linda Toth. "She will help spread the message about Conexxus and the work we are doing to advance standards, advocate on behalf of the industry and bring clarity on upcoming technologies.".....

Bullard, a highly-regarded technology professional in the convenience store industry, comes to Conexxus with a long history of advocating for standards and using technology to benefit the industry and the organizations she has worked for.....

As an IT leader wins from store managers were an important measure of success and when vendors joined in sending their invoices electronically, using the Conexxus NAXML standard, the momentum those wins caused was phenomenal. The implementation of the standard has been made easy thanks to the efforts of the Conexxus EB2B committee and back-office system providers. The committee provides support to retailers interested in learning more and have advocated for the adoption of the standard by merchandise vendors....

During his "Artificial Intelligence Applications in Merchandising" education session at the event, Thompson defined AI as a branch of computer science that deals with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers, and the capability of a machine to imitate.  Among the AI-powered solutions that Thompson said retailers are beginning to take advantage of are: goal-seeking agents that seek to identify and implement decisions to produce beneficial outputs; and systems that leverage external data and machine-learning techniques to provide recommendations and/or automated decisions.....

Blockchain is often defined in different ways depending on who is talking. Is it an idea? An implementation? A distributed transaction ledger?  Jennifer O’Rourke, co-founder and president of Attest, a blockchain-based digital identity company, sees it as a problem-solving technology of the fourth Industrial Revolution that’s likely to have a major impact on the retail industry.....