Office Depot Deploys SignAge™ Sign Printing System

Retailer estimates savings of over $5 million in labor costs

Minneapolis, MN - December 1, 2001 - Retail Technology Solutions®, a leading provider of automated sign printing solutions and data processing technologies for retailers, announces the deployment of SignAge, a complete end-to-end retail printing solution, to Office Depot’s entire chain of stores in the US and Canada.

RTS’s Web-based SignAge™ software suite allows Office Depot to deliver dynamic yet visually consistent signage across its chain of stores. The previous sign system was cumbersome and required too much time to print and set Office Depot’s weekly promotional ad. The SignAge system will save labor costs by using automatic overnight printing.

The front end component of system, SignStation, is web-based which allows store signage to be printed from any workstation in the store. The SignAge system is directly integrated with Office Depot’s existing plan-o-gram and product databases. This allows all printed signage to be sorted in Aisle/Bin & plan-o-gram order for efficient hanging. The new system is estimated to save each store over 1 hour of labor every day. This increase in store operational efficiency will save Office Depot over 5 million dollars in its first year of operation alone.

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With solutions from Retail Technology Solutions Inc, the nation's leading retailers move, transform, automate, print and display information critical to the operation of their business and to their customers.

Every RTS solution is designed for reliable mission critical operation in large store enterprise environments that need to run 24 hours a day 7 days a week. RTS solutions are designed to run fast and efficient and consume less CPU & network resources, so retailers can maximize the return on their hardware investment. Every software product is designed with a feature set that goes well beyond comparable products. If you can't meet all of today's challenges and be flexible enough to deal with tomorrows's, why bother to build it at all?