Toshiba Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale Software in Grocery and Food Store Retail 2026 Vendor Assessment

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Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale (POS) Software in Grocery and Food Store Retail 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52989526, April 2026). This recognition comes as grocery retailers seek more open, intelligent platforms that can connect store data, support real-time decisions, reduce shrink, and help operations adapt as conditions change.

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IDC MarketScape is the IT industry’s premier vendor assessment tool, providing in-depth quantitative and qualitative technology market assessment. This 2026 IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of enterprise POS software solution providers that have a significant presence in the global grocery/food store segment. A key component of the evaluation is how POS software systems are evolving from simple transaction terminals to dynamic and composable commerce hubs.

“Toshiba’s position as a Leader reflects the strength of ELERA as an open, composable platform for enterprise grocery retailers,” said Filippo Battaini, Research Manager, IDC Retail Insights. “In this evaluation, Toshiba was recognized for its self-enablement architecture validated at the largest scale, industry-leading native AI and computer vision loss prevention, and proven scalability across formats and geographies. These capabilities are increasingly important as grocery retailers look for platforms they can build on, extend, and use to support more intelligent store operations.”

“From our perspective, this report reflects the broader shift grocery retailers are navigating: AI has to be connected to the systems, data, and workflows that run the store,” said Rance Poehler, President and CEO, Toshiba. “ Weis Markets is already using ELERA®’s embedded AI and computer vision capabilities to help reduce shrink and improve operations. With ELERA®, retailers gain an open, extensible platform that connects transactions, store data, AI, and operations so teams can make faster decisions, improve execution, and adapt as conditions change.”

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About the ELERA® Commerce Platform

Toshiba’s ELERA® Commerce Platform represents a new era of flexibility and intelligence for retailers seeking agile and secure solutions to navigate demanding environments. ELERA® gives retailers a flexible platform that supports both in‑house and partner led innovation, with an open design that makes it easy to build and launch new capabilities.

ELERA® features more than 70 microservices and 1,000 API endpoints, enabling retailers the freedom to build their own differentiated capabilities on a modern, composable foundation. Today, ELERA operates across cloud, hybrid, SaaS, and edge environments and supports 135,000 contracted lanes across more than 30 countries. Looking to the future, ELERA® is continuously evolving with retailer-driven agentic automation and development, along with a self-optimizing retail operating system on the horizon. ELERA® is also available in the convenience and fuel, specialty, and QSR industries.

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions:

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions empowers retail to thrive and prosper through a dynamic ecosystem of smarter, more agile solutions and services that enable retailers to resiliently evolve with generations of consumers and adapt to market conditions. Supported by a global organization of devoted employees and partners, retailers gain more visibility and control over operations while enjoying the flexibility to build, scale, and transform retail experiences that anticipate and fulfill consumers’ ever-changing needs.

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Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Tec Corporation, which is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Toshiba named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape report that assesses the capabilities and strategies of enterprise POS software solution providers that have a significant presence in the global grocery/food store segment.

BOGUE CHITTO, Miss. (AP) — Powerful storms that included at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties, damaging around 500 homes, uprooting trees and injuring at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday.

There were no immediate reports of deaths after storms cut across the state's southwest on Wednesday night, said Scott Simmons, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

He said 12 of those hurt were transported from a hard-hit trailer park in the small community of Bogue Chitto, about an hour's drive south of the state capital in rural Lincoln County.

Most of the two dozen homes at Gene’s Mobile Home Supply were flattened into heaps of splintered boards and twisted metal. People picked through the debris Thursday morning under cloudy skies as a chainsaw buzzed in the background.

“I was just watching TikTok on my bed and thought it was thunder. I went to my living room. I went back to my room, and the room’s gone,” resident Max Mahaffey told WAPT-TV.

He said he wasn't injured, but his grandmother hurt her ankle and some of his neighbors suffered cuts and bruises.

One intact trailer lay flipped on its roof near the tree line. Several cars, some with hazard lights blinking, appeared to have been picked up by the storm.

“We know there were at least three tornadoes,” said Daniel Lamb, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office in Jackson.

“The same storm produced at least two tornadoes from Franklin, Lincoln into Lawrence counties, and then there was another one from Lamar possibly into Forest County.”

He said there may have been more. “Those are just the ones that we are able to confirm by radar before even having gone down there.”

“Pray for Mississippi,” Gov. Tate Reeves posted online, saying the state Emergency Management Agency was coordinating response efforts.

Many roads were still blocked in Lincoln County and teams from the agency were assessing the damage.

“We ask that you please refrain from sightseeing as crews are working,” the department posted early Thursday.

The governor said a volunteer rescue group was providing a 50-person shelter pod, a high-powered generator and 10 pallets of supplies to the county, which reported at least 200 damaged homes.

Lamar County to the southeast reported about 275 homes damaged, according to the state emergency management agency. Another 10 to 12 homes were damaged in Lawrence County.

More storms were expected Thursday with the possibility of tornadoes across parts of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the weather service said. Strong storms also were possible for parts of the Carolinas and Texas.

McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire.

In this frame grab from video taken by WDAM, damaged trees and a house or structure following a storm that tore through part of Lamar County, Mississippi, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (WDAM via AP)