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World's Largest Retailer Places Order with NCR for 3,000 Automated Customer Service Machines

February 6, 2001 at 10:34 AM EST
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ATLANTA, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today announced Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will deploy 3,000 NCR Web Kiosks. Known within Wal-Mart as Automated Customer Service Machines (ACSM), the kiosks will be rolled out nationwide to every Wal-Mart store and Supercenter by the end of May.

The gift registry ACSM will be located near the jewelry department and will enable shoppers to create bridal, baby and/or birthday registries by scanning the items they wish to include. Wal-Mart developed the registry software in cooperation with NCR's Human Factors Engineers (HFE), NCR's engineering group that assures systems are easy to learn and use.

"The simplicity and convenience of this customer service technology will offer our wonderful Wal-Mart customers additional shopping choices and help further support our philosophy of providing exceptional customer service at everyday low prices," said Wal-Mart Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Kevin Turner.

About NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leader in providing Relationship Technology(TM) solutions to customers worldwide in the retail, financial, communications, manufacturing, travel and transportation, and insurance markets. NCR's Relationship Technology solutions include privacy-enabled Teradata(R) warehouses and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, store automation and automated teller machines (ATMs). The company's business solutions are built on the foundation of its long- established industry knowledge and consulting expertise, value-adding software, global customer support services, a complete line of consumable and media products, and leading edge hardware technology. NCR employs 32,900 in more than 100 countries, and is a component stock of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. More information about NCR and its solutions may be found at www.ncr.com .

NCR and Teradata are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries. SOURCE NCR Corporation

CONTACT: Caroline Leigh of NCR Corporation, 770-623-7608, or caroline.leigh@ncr.com/