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Outgoing Myer CEO John King on why Black Friday might overtake Christmas

Inside Retail

This year’s AGM occurred at a time of significant management change at Myer, as King, JoAnne Stephenson, who is chairperson of the board, and Nigel Chadwick, the retailer’s CFO, are all scheduled to depart their roles in the coming months. King noted that broader economic factors have impacted the wider retail environment.

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Utilizing the External Data Boom for Digital Shelf Optimization

Retail TouchPoints

Many companies can track their own digital shelf data, allowing them to align products across platforms, perform A/B testing and improve inventory management. The fact that you can adapt your digital display very quickly as compared to physical inventory management allows businesses to benefit from multiple types of external data.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

It also requires businesses to create a digital wallet, obtain a shareable QR code and keep track of every checkout location. This would allow your online customers to check out with crypto — whether it’s Bitcoin, Ethereum or even Dogecoin — and then have the product delivered or pick it up at a retail location.

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Key Disaster Preparedness Takeaways for Retailers from an Eventful Summer

Retail TouchPoints

This circumstance underscores the importance of distributed IT performance management software in assisting retailers in retaining authority over their power systems. Retail IT managers have the option to incorporate software applications alongside their power management equipment to facilitate a proactive approach to remote management.

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Strategies for Retailers to Weather the Storm this Hurricane Season

Retail TouchPoints

Prevention and visibility are essential factors in achieving the always-on power retailers demand, especially with many retailers pushing data to distributed infrastructure at multiple locations. Ed Spears is a Technical Marketing Manager in Eaton ’s Critical Power & Digital Infrastructure Division in Raleigh, N.C.

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How NTI and Cisco Networking Academy are preparing Egypt for the IT jobs of the future

Cisco Retail

For its efforts in workforce development and improvement in Egypt, Cisco Networking Academy partner, the National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), is a deserving winner of a Be the Bridge award. Dr. Emad Abd-Elrahman (Cisco Academy Manager, NTI). A: NTI is a reputed scientific, educational and research institution founded in 1983.

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Serendipitous Social Impact is Just One Click Away

Cisco Retail

This is where I listened in on two topics that were quite new to me: first the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, which rewards the best technological projects solving a social problem, and secondly how Cisco was solving connectivity problems in remote locations, in partnership with Mercy Corps.