National Retail Federation (NRF) 2010 Show

Posted by on January 27, 2010 under Retail Software | Be the First to Comment

The start of the new year brings the annual NRF tradeshow in New York. With over 14,000 attendees and 500 vendors this is a pretty big event for the retail industry. The attendance at this show is actually quite good considering the decline in tradeshow attendance across the board. Many of the formerly great tradeshows have really cut back or have simply disappeared. Tradeshows have had a really difficult time since the decline in business travel after 9/11 and the rise of the internet. Of course the vendors exhibiting at the show will always complain that there are never enough leads coming their way no matter how big the show!

We decided to do something different at NRF this year to kick off the Software Evaluation Blog. In addition to getting an update from the retail software vendors to refresh our information for retail software selection clients, we decided to try out some video blogging of some of the major retail software vendors. Although they are definitely very sales oriented, we thought it would add some color to the vendor information that we collected, so that if you are looking for a retail solution, you can get a better feel for the product. Obviously we could not include every software vendor at the show, but you will see some of the major vendors represented. Please note that we do not endorse any of the vendors highlighted on this blog, and the information presented was gathered and interpreted by SoftResources so please do not rely on this information for decision making purposes for your software selection project – contact the software vendor directly.