Food retailing may soon be entering “the cloud” or cloud computing for cost savings. Retailers are beginning to discover the huge cost savings for their online websites when they move over to the cloud. They can scale instantly for demand at the touch of a button. This creates huge cost savings for all the many cloud hosting retailers.
Michael Garry stated: “The cloud in this case is the Internet, which is increasingly becoming a source of not only software applications but also computing platforms and processing. The virtual world of cloud computing is taking over some of the traditional physical world of bulky machines, enabling retailers to not only reduce hardware and software investment but also improve services to customers, employees and vendors.”
