Latin American Convenient Stores Purchase NEC Retail Platform

NEC and NEC Corporation of America , announced that OXXO, the largest convenience store chain in Latin America, has selected NEC's PoS hardware platform as their standard.

Owned by FEMSA, a consumer products company in Latin America serving more than 200 million customers, OXXO is the largest convenience store chain in Latin America. With more than 8,000 stores strategically located throughout Mexico and Colombia, OXXO offers convenient services and products, 24-hour service in most areas and a fast and comfortable shopping experience.

"OXXO strives to continuously innovate in all areas of our business, most importantly where it will benefit our customers. This vision requires proven and reliable technology to enable our business requirements, especially in our mission-critical systems. Last year we embarked on a detailed review process in order to update our PoS platform." said Ruben Trevino, CIO of OXXO. "After evaluating several solutions from top PoS vendors we selected NEC because they fully met our requirements of highly reliable technology and lowest TCO."