Peek...Aren't You Curious, a children's apparel retailer based in San Francisco, has invested in point-of-sale (POS) technology from NCR Corporation to support its future growth plans as well as its customer-centric approach to retailing.

Founded in 2007, with stores in California, Arizona and Texas, Peek...Aren't You Curious is built around its own proprietary apparel brands and a unique vision to serve the high-end contemporary children's apparel market. The company currently operates in eight cities.

The chain's strong customer focus led Peek...Aren't You Curious to select a solution built around one of the most powerful POS workstations on the market, the NCR RealPOS 80XRT workstation. The NCR workstation offers retailers a wider range of high-performance processors than any competing system, leading the industry with Intel vPro technology, a professional platform for business. It is considered ideal for customer intelligence programs, streaming-video ads and graphics-rich promotions.

In addition, the NCR RealPOS 80XRT is the only fully configurable workstation that offers Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) on all models. AMT enables "out-of-band" remote management, even if the operating system is down or the workstation is turned off - helping retailers reduce support costs and improve systems availability.

Retail Anywhere, an NCR RealPartner reseller, is responsible for the sale and is providing staging services prior to shipping the solution to Peek stores. Peek...Aren't You Curious projects the deployment of the solution to all its locations will be completed by May 2009.

The Peek...Aren't You Curious solution also includes POS and enterprise software platforms from Retail Anywhere and the digital receipt solution suite from afterBOT, as well as integration with the chain's e-commerce and supply chain solutions from Auspient. The solution is designed to provide management with a single view across all channels, bricks and clicks, purchase order management, inventory management and order management as well as detailed, real-time views of product life cycle, product movement, channel performance and consumer behavior.

"NCR POS solutions are ideal for small businesses looking to grow or large retailers looking to maximize uptime and reduce service costs," said Allen Wier, NCR Industry Marketing director. "The NCR RealPOS 80XRT will help Peek...Aren't You Curious deliver premium customer experiences and a high level of power and performance to appropriately support their business both now and in the future."