So That Was 2012!

POS Goes Mobile
One exponent of the merger of all channels was the arrival of the first real mobile point-of-sale systems based on e-commerce technology.

Retailers like Nordstrom rolled out mobile POS devices throughout their full-line stores, allowing employees to "swipe and check out" customers from anywhere in the store and gain access to the company's entire inventory without needing a register to look up that information.