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How Streamlining Digital Checkout Boosted Polywood Conversions Nearly 50%

Retail TouchPoints

In 2017, Polywood had a great product sustainability story (its outdoor furniture is made from 100% recycled plastic and comes with a 20-year guarantee) and a solid launching pad for direct-to-consumer sales (a 27 -year history of selling through big box, home improvement and specialty patio stores). It was an involved, intense process.

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The Grocery Store Experience: How to Design Safe, Adaptable Shopping Environments

Retail TouchPoints

More than 800 customers completed the survey, which was designed to gauge confidence and overall satisfaction in the grocery shopping experience thus far during the pandemic — 97% of those surveyed had visited one of T&C’s stores within the previous month. It had been planned for years, but COVID-19 created significant urgency.

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Thinking Outside the Mall: Using Exterior Spaces to Draw Shoppers In

Retail TouchPoints

For those not familiar, it’s an enormous structure, and like most auto-centric suburban shopping centers, it’s surrounded by acres of parking spaces. Supreet Barhay: Even before the pandemic, we were looking at ways shopping centers could draw more foot traffic by creating additional places for community and engagement.

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5 Real-World Ways 5G Will Transform Retail

Retail TouchPoints

This ultra-fast connectivity — when paired with other technologies such as IoT, computer vision or cloud computing — will enable everything from virtually enhanced, personalized in-store shopping to real-time planogram compliance to up-to-the-second SKU-level supply chain tracking. Fast, Frictionless Checkout.

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5G in Retail: Creating the WOW factor

Retail TouchPoints

Dick’s Sporting Goods , one of the largest sporting goods retailers, recently unveiled its House of Sports store with a running track, rock wall, batting cages and outdoor turf field. 5G can also connect mobile point-of-sale (POS) terminals , self-service kiosks, scan-and-go checkouts and other forms of frictionless shopping with ease.

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Technology, trends and key takeaways from NRF’s Big Show

Inside Retail

The grocery and supermarket sector has truly led the pack in seamless retail, as the first to normalise self-serve checkouts, and it continues to act as pioneers in the frictionless experience space, with innovations such as Amazon Go’s smart store – no lines, no check out, just grab and go. million square kilometres of ocean by 2030.

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Holiday 2020: With $189 Billion in Online Sales on the Line, Transparency and Social Outreach are Essential

Retail TouchPoints

The pandemic’s impact on shopping habits isn’t abating: 66% of respondents will prefer home delivery over other fulfillment methods, according to a survey by Oracle. To reach the heightened numbers of online shoppers, retailers should consider embedding shopping into social experiences. year-over-year. year-over-year.

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