THIBODAUX, La. -- Rouse's Supermarkets here is close to completing a year-old deployment of a Linux-based point-of-sale system for 200 checkout lanes at its 15 stores, just the second such ...

Thirty years ago, Burlington Coat Factory was just another small, off-price clothing retailer ringing up purchases with old-fashioned cash registers. By last year, sales had reached $2.4 billion at ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- Hannaford Bros. is replacing the point-of-sale system in all of its stores with an unorthodox Linux-based platform that is the "the lowest-cost POS solution available," according ...

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Retailer Ritz Camera Centers is deploying Linux at stores across the country, joining a burgeoning list of retailers that have opted to run their in-store point-of-sale (POS) applications on the ...

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