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What the metaverse means for retail and consumer goods

Inside Retail

At Microsoft, we break down the metaverse i nto three strategies: consumer, enterprise, and industrial. Centred around online gaming and Xbox, providing a platform for users to collaborate, engage with immersive experiences to explore, play games with their friends, and shop. Use cases include: Virtual Stores. Industrial.

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

Retail TouchPoints

Through AI and other technologies, customers in grocery stores, clothing outlets and other convenience-style shops no longer need to wait in line to check out. As for concertgoers at these same venues, over half of U.S. In some sections at SoFi, you can even order online and have food and drinks delivered right to your seat.

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Getting to Grips with Gen Z

Retail TouchPoints

Gen Z consumers are neither easy to define nor predictable in their shopping habits. It is assumed that they are more adept at using the technology in their hands and that this facility will inform their consuming behaviors, which McKinsey refers to as “seamless and intuitive adoption of online shopping and transactions.”

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Q1 Results: Walmart, Target Lean on Groceries as Discretionary Spending Declines in Early 2023

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart’s comparable sales growth was likewise strong, at 7.4% , while its ecommerce sales growth of 27% was led by pickup and delivery options. Additionally, groceries have become a majority of Walmart’s annual sales, at 60%. One area where Target made significant progress was cutting back on excess merchandise. in Q1 2023.

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How Woodman’s Markets is Harnessing In-Store ‘Anti-COVID Robots’

Retail TouchPoints

They also provide an answer to some of the challenges created by the pandemic, as executives from Woodman’s Markets and Badger Technologies discussed during a session titled The Rise Of Robotics In Retail at the 2020 Retail Innovation Conference.

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How Technology is Supporting the Era of ‘Value’ and ‘Values’

Retail TouchPoints

Faced with an endless number of brands, product options and channels to shop through, consumers are looking for the perfect combination of “value” and “values.” Is it at the price point I’m willing to pay? But has it changed their priorities at all? There are a lot of ways to solve that problem.

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In the Wake of ‘Returnageddon’ Retailers Seek New Solutions to an Age-Old Problem

Retail TouchPoints

It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. Ecommerce clearly isn’t going anywhere.

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