bbotcs...SCKT...confirmation news on large Japanese deal
I let my premium membership expire since I hardly used it. As such, I'm posting it here.
Here's some worthwhile info I found out recently.
I can't access the whole article for you all at this time, but the translated summary of the news release from November 22nd, 2013 (from Yamazaki Bread Co themselves) on the Nikkei news wire is this:
(poorly translated): "Yamazaki Baking to switch to the system to use the (multi-function mobile terminal) tablet ordering of small and medium-sized food stores from next spring. Introduced to about 20,005 Senmise by September 2015. Than the current easy to using a dedicated application, read the bar code of the catalog ..."
A business associate contacted me about it to bring it to my attention. He said the full article (in Japanese) said that Yamazaki Baking Co is going to start putting the tablet POS system into 25,000 stores starting in March 2014 and going to September 2015.
This is what Socket management has been saying all along. The frustrating part is that we all have to wait till 2014 for the deals to really start to roll in. This deal is over 6 quarters. This is just one contract that Socket is involved in. I know from my own research that the van line contract is coming, but again it's taking time to play out (I did see around 140 7ci scanners sell through Ingram today which is 10x normal volume so it pretty much is van line oriented).
For those that want to access the article, you need to google the Japanese characters for Yamazaki Baking Co (you can get them from Wikipedia) and the article is on Nikkei. You need a free membership to read the whole thing, but all the directions on how to do it are in Japanese.
