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Retail shrink has long been the industry’s silent tax: costly, persistent, and difficult to measure. That narrative is beginning to shift. Findings from VDC’s new Loss Prevention Report show measurable progress, with shrink declining from 2024 to 2025...
After a year of stalled refresh cycles in 2024, the stationary thermal printer market is regaining traction in 2025. Desktop and industrial models are seeing renewed investment, but the role of these devices has changed.
On August 5th Zebra Technologies entered into a $1.3 billion agreement to acquire Elo Touch Solutions, a leading vendor of touchscreen kiosks, mobile computers and payment solutions with $400 million in annual revenues.
Photoneo earned recognition — and Zebra’s acquisition — by developing not only machine vision 3D cameras but also a novel technique for image processing, patented as parallel structured light. In May 2025 the company made a similar accomplishment...