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title: "Best Benefit Ever: Learning the ARTS of Retail Technology"
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**What’s the benefit?** For many retailers, keeping up with the demands of customers, the challenges of inventory and distribution, and the evolving needs of information technology is almost too much to handle. [The National Retail Federation (opens in a new tab)](https://nrf.com/)
 (NRF) seeks to aid retailers with many of these difficulties, but to address the particular challenges of IT, NRF has the subsidiary [Association for Retail Technology Standards (opens in a new tab)](https://nrf.com/membership/industry-partners/arts-associate-member-benefits)
 (ARTS). The [main benefit of membership (opens in a new tab)](https://nrf.com/who-we-are/retail-communities/technology/arts#)
 is a compilation of numerous educational offerings, which are all focused on “helping retailers and solution providers identify, adopt, and integrate current and emerging information technology.” ARTS provides IT neophytes with a starting point to familiarize themselves with best practices and common knowledge. For those with IT expertise, ARTS provides specific resources and tutorials to enhance skills.

**Why it works for members:** Familiarity with the technology landscape and the wide array of available solutions is essential, and [ARTS is built to address those very concerns (opens in a new tab)](https://nrf.com/who-we-are/retail-communities/technology/arts)
. The resources, ranging from white papers and business-process models to XML schemas and data models, aim to help leaders from project managers to developers and information architects.

**Other perks:** [ARTS also frequently hosts webinars (opens in a new tab)](https://nrf.com/who-we-are/retail-communities/technology/arts#)
 on topics like digital receipts and customer centricity. And the learning opportunities extend beyond the digital realm: ARTS has a series of events and conferences for members. For example, [ARTS’s next quarterly meeting (opens in a new tab)](https://nrf.com/events/arts-quarterly-meetings-august-2015)
 will take place at the [Tractor Supply Company (opens in a new tab)](http://www.tractorsupply.com/)
 Store Support Center in Brentwood, Tennessee, on August 17.

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[Morgan Little](https://associationsnow.com/author/morgan-little/)

Morgan Little is a contributor to Associations Now.

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