National Retail Federation (NRF) to merge with the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)
In a recent announcement the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) have agreed to merge. The NRF encompasses the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) which provides industry standards used within the point of service and retail space. According to the executive director of ARTS, plans for 2009 are continuing to move forward and have not been impacted at this time.
Currently ARTS is working on a major revision to the Unified POS standard as well as other standards used by the industry. Microsoft is a member of ARTS and is currently active on the Unified POS technical committee. Last year, Microsoft released version 1.12 of Microsoft’s POS for .NET, which is the recognized .NET implementation of the Unified POS standard.