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Wireless 5G Revolutionizing Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Or a customer receives immediate, personalized product promotions and recommendations the moment they walk in a store, creating a truly customized experience. These are just a few examples of what 5G can do for the retail customer experience. Improved Customer Experience.

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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. For our customers it’s all about breadth.” Hot Topic has found that predictability β€” not necessarily speed β€” is among the most important aspects of the customer experience.

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Australia’s supply chains should never look the same again

Inside Retail

This is particularly true for retail supply-chain management. In the past, supply-chain challenges may have redirected consumers to local products. Having made such a switch, are consumers likely to return to old favourites this time? More accurate supply-chain models. Start with the data.

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Stop out of stocks denting your profits this holiday season

I Vend

So inventory management is essential. Retail technology can streamline inventory management by enabling retailers to accurately track goods from delivery to sale through to returns. Point of sale store operations – customers want fast and friction-free checkout, and retailers need to know what has been sold. .

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Trending The Rules: Top Retail Trends Are Trending At An Unprecedented Rate

Retail TouchPoints

And the backlash β€” the desire for a return to substantive human interactions β€” had already begun too. Whether click-to-pay for e-Commerce or contactless payments for traditional commerce, efforts to improve online and offline checkout experiences did not originate with COVID-19. Smooth Operators Appeal Online And Off.

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Ten competitive strategies of successful retailers

I Vend

They have become ever more demanding about what they want: service, price, choice, convenience, omnichannel retail, frictionless checkout – and if they’re not satisfied, they simply go elsewhere. So the first common feature we see in successful retailers is their customer-centricity.

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From smart mirrors to in-car shopping: the tech shaping retail’s future

Inside Retail

This can be seen by the adoption of QR codes – the use of which accelerated amid Covid-19 restrictions – self checkout in supermarkets and autonomous mobile robots, which are being utilised by major retailers for (among other things) logistical, supply chain and other inventory management tasks.

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