Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2024

In 2020, Tattarang, a prominent Australian investment group, acquired RM Williams with a vision to propel the brand into the digital age while preserving its heritage. The conventional checkout process, often plagued by long queues, is a thing of the past, as associates can seamlessly process transactions from any location within the store.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

retail executives whose stores offered at least one method of store-based online order fulfillment — revealed that the pandemic triggered a 5X increase in ecommerce volume in 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. View the Point-of-Sale Software for High-Touch Retailers Buyers’ Guide to learn more about the report.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Amazon announced that it would make its JWO technology available to other retailers in March 2020 , and deployed the technology at an Amazon Fresh store in June 2021. A checkout-free Chartwells convenience store debuted in November 2020 at its University of Houston location using technology from Standard.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, Hudson kicked off its deployment of the Flooid platform to provide a new backbone for all transactions across its 1,010 travel convenience stores and specialty retail, which includes proprietary book and tech stores, duty-free shops and food and beverage concessions. We had people who knew what they were doing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

A recent study from Adobe revealed that online spending grew by $183 billion in 2020 , highlighting the tremendous impact of the pandemic on shopping habits. . Quickly casting a broad net is also valuable for companies that deal with seasonality, especially in an environment where some seasons can happen at any time, as was the case in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The rollout, which began in September 2020, was completed within only four weeks, according to Nedap , the technology provider. In July 2020, Encuentro Moda began working with Nedap by integrating the provider’s !D The rollout was completed in October 2020. Adding Real-Time Inventory Data.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2023

Chang also serves as non-executive director of Puzzle Coffee, which operates four locations across the Melbourne CBD. Taking to LinkedIn last month, Chang, who was elected as a City of Melbourne councillor in 2020, said the struggles of operating the business carried a significant mental toll.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2024

Locations like grocery stores, delicatessens, bakeries and convenience stores can sometimes be classified as an eating establishment and must charge sales tax on certain prepared food items. Class Action attorneys are always looking for retailers over-applying sales tax.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

A number of brands with Westfield locations have recently begun to accept contactless and flexible payment solutions from Afterpay in their stores, including Lush Cosmetics , Aldo , The Children’s Place and The Container Store. million customers have set up an Afterpay Card to shop in person since the solution went live in fall 2020.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2023

The brand launched in China via Tmall in late 2020, and instantly recognised that there was a huge demand for its products. Since opening its first store in Shanghai in 2021, the brand has opened 10 stand-alone stores across mainland China, three points of sale in Macau and another stand-alone store in Hong Kong. “We

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Retail Next

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To cover this idea in more detail, this article identifies five specific ways in which the in-store experience is shaping retail in 2020. A previous post on the ‘Top Tech Trends Shaping Retail in 2020’ covered some noteworthy examples, including the use of augmented and extended reality. Prioritizing Experience Over Inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

billion worldwide in 2020, and thanks to a 27.25% compound annual growth rate, the budding industry (no pun intended) is expected to reach $54.41 Plus, regulatory requirements require these stores to be located in industrial areas, away from traditional retail locations. The legal cannabis market was valued at $12.81

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Depending on your location or target demographic, both options can be very valuable for your customers. So when the retailer makes changes to the integrated system — which can be anything from a point-of-sale system to an Excel sheet with inventory items — these changes are automatically implemented into the signage.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2023

We’ve always had our sights set on South Australia, but we had to find the right location in a luxury retail destination, and we found a home in Adelaide Central Plaza. VM: We have seven stand-alone boutiques located all across Australia. In 2020, we relaunched the website, and that allowed us to accelerate during Covid-19.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2021

“We’re building a new e-commerce site, we’re implementing marketing cloud and service cloud, we’re implementing a customer data platform (CDP), and on top of that, we’re implementing a new order management system and mobile point of sale platform,” Alexander told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

billion spent in March 2020, or about 10% of all grocery sales. . Albertsons and Kroger have both integrated Google Maps into their shopping apps; as shoppers drive to the store for pickup, their location is tracked and relayed to the store so that all is staged and ready for arrival. Location, location.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2022

The new version of the Dash Cart is larger, yet lighter than its predecessor and also includes new features such as a “delicates shelf” and improved geo-location capabilities to more accurately display nearby products and deals based on where the cart is in the store.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2021

An EY study in August 2020, How Will Brands Adapt to a More Cautious Customer , found that 65% of consumers say they will be more aware of hygiene and cleanliness and 52% will look to use contactless payments to avoid touching things. Or it’s a harsh sounding story, with the continuous ringing and beeping of cash registers at point of sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facing a near-apocalyptic situation, retailers have had to pivot quickly, creatively and competently in order to withstand the chaos of the 2020 economy. Although competition in the market will shift, physical store locations will remain a cornerstone of retail operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fundamental to the lean-and-mean concept is a further and necessary shift toward retail locations as marketing platforms rather than sales vehicles. With a global recession in place for 2020, this spending is expected to decline by 14%, but will resume growth in 2021 and beyond, reaching $26.3 billion by 2025. billion in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2021

The company reported significant growth in 2020 ­– revenue tripled and its customer base increased 60% – as retailers and restaurants used Raydiant to provide information about safety protocols, new store hours and takeout options in response to the pandemic.

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365 Retail

JUNE 18, 2021

The company published its latest results with Companies House, which showed revenues in the year to September 2020 fell £243 million, down 32.7% There was some recovery for the company when stores were allowed to reopen in the summer, with UK city centres trading at 34% of levels the previous year, rising to 56% by September 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) was the trendiest way to pay for all those lockdown purchases back in 2020. Also known as pay-over-time or pay-in-4 installment plans, BNPL offers consumers the chance to split up the cost of major purchases directly at the point of sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely made its mark on the retail industry, with more than 8,000 brick-and-mortar stores shutting down in 2020. The systems can send alerts whenever the store occupancy limit has been reached or there’s a high concentration of shoppers in the same location. So what does the future hold? Social Distancing.

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Mass Relators

MAY 26, 2021

These payments, known as Direct and Indirect Remuneration (DIR), were designed to be applied at the point-of-sale to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. In fact, nearly one-third of our members rank pharmacy DIR fees as having among the most negative effect on their sales and profits (U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

Capturing transaction data can give businesses deeper insights into their customers, staff rostering and store locations,” says Adrian Yee, director client consulting, transaction banking solutions at Commonwealth Bank. However they can also be used to generate rich data that would otherwise be impossible to collect.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

On top of that, another rising privacy concern revolves around how retailers are obtaining and using location data from customer’s smartphones to direct advertising strategies. Loyalty programs have traditionally been transaction-focused and impersonal; customers earn points, redeem rewards, and the cycle repeats.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Simon Schofield : Despite the impact 2020 had on the retail sector, it certainly was a special year for Witchery. Customers have missed the experience of shopping in-store, and we’ve seen strong support across our suburban stores, with improvement in CBD locations in recent months.

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Star Miconics

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Customers enjoy the flexibility of ordering from any location, eliminating the need to travel for meal collection. Plus, CloudPRNT works with your iOS , Android , and Windows tablets and devices; perfect for mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) systems. Original article written by Heidi Orpilla and published June 18, 2020.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 20, 2022

By introducing Akeneo’s PIM solution and automating the workflow, Bradfords has cut the time taken to onboard a new product from three days to two hours or less, as well as helping its marketplace partners deliver exceptional, engaging and compelling content at the point of sale to meet the evolved needs of increasingly digital-first shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

The company owns and operates 34 locations, both flagships or outlets, and the remainder are owned and operated by partners such as high-end resorts. We started the program with NewStore in earnest in January 2020 and started rolling the system out to stores in the beginning of June,” Larocque said.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s simpler for them to keep their heads down and quickly locate the product they came in for. But if you’re looking to improve yours, how can you start applying different merchandising techniques to your point-of-sale locations? Constantly Audit Your Points-of-Sale.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2022

Firstly, we have rapidly grown and developed a strong omni presence in Singapore with 15 points of sales, an ecommerce website and lastly a sports marketplace, supported by a regional warehouse in Johor Bahru. Lastly, the Data Lab is located strategically within the Kallang Alive district.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

From record business closings to record small business growth (the number of new businesses in 2020 was up 24.3 In fact, 49 percent of small business owners with online stores saw a boost in sales in 2020, even in the midst of the pandemic. A year like no other. percent per the U.S.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

From record business closings to record small business growth (the number of new businesses in 2020 was up 24.3 In fact, 49 percent of small business owners with online stores saw a boost in sales in 2020, even in the midst of the pandemic. A year like no other. percent per the U.S.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

APRIL 24, 2020

Based on various market studies and survey results run recently by leading firms like The McKinsey Global Institute’s elaborate State of Fashion in 2020, we have summed up the most critical recommendations on what it takes to reinvigorate business immunity system and organizations. Take for example, Multidev Technologies.

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