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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer will instead rely more heavily on its smart Amazon Dash Carts , which have been deployed at Fresh stores since 2020 as well as at Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

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The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience. As for concertgoers at these same venues, over half of U.S. And it’s not just helping consumers.

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NRF 2024 Preview: Hear From Top Execs at Levi’s, Ulta Beauty, FedEx — and Magic Johnson

Retail TouchPoints

Spotlights on Supply Chain, Sustainability and RMNs New at the 2024 event is the retailer-only Supply Chain 360 Summit being held on Sunday, Jan. 13, What’s in Store for Retail Media Networks. For those who want to check out actual stores in the retail mecca that is New York City, guided retail store tours begin at 10 a.m.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

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in-stock commitment would take 6X as much inventory as the original 80% calculation — and it’s still not at 100% ! On the other hand, ultra-liberal return policies are fine for the customer experience, but they’re really expensive. To provide a 99.5% What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important.

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Dollar General Hit with $1M More in OSHA Fines, Bringing Total Since 2017 to $15M

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Dollar General is facing more than $1 million in potential penalties for workspace safety violations at four stores in Florida and Georgia that were uncovered by investigators from the U.S. federal workplace inspectors opened inspections at stores on 58th Avenue and Marion Oaks Manor in late August and September 2022.

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NRF: Retail Sales Rose 17.7% YoY in March as Recovery Accelerated

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Results in other categories included: Sporting goods stores: Up 23.5% YoY; Furniture and home furnishings stores: Up 5.9% YoY; Building materials and garden supply stores: Up 12.1% YoY; Online and other non-store sales: Up 6% month-over-month, up 30.7% YoY; Electronics and appliance stores: Up 10.5%

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Meet the rising star of the week, Jade Cameron, LSKD

Inside Retail

This week, we have a chat with Jade Cameron, head of customer support at activewear brand, LKSD. Not my first job but my very first job in retail was at Target! But also something not many people know is from this job, I had a sneaky passion and love for merchandising stores! Her people and the customer.