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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

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Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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WWD: Sephora CEO Leaving After Less Than Two Years

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Brok, who took the CEO job in September 2020, is a retail and brand veteran with more than 30 years’ experience, most recently as President of EMEA for Starbucks. Prior to that position Brok spent more than eight years at Nike , eventually serving as its VP, Global Product and Merchandising Operations and Analytics.

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Sainsbury’s Deploys Amazon Just Walk Out Technology in London C-Store

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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. The company plans to equip two of its Whole Foods stores with cashierless solutions in 2022.

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Despite COVID, Spanish Retailer Rolls Out RFID Across 125 Stores in One Month

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Spanish fashion retailer Encuentro Moda is deploying a radio frequency identification solution across its 125 stores, both to meet omnichannel requirements and to gain visibility into the stock availability at each store and throughout the supply chain. The rollout was completed in October 2020. Adding Real-Time Inventory Data.

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How to Keep Your Digital Signage up to Date

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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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5 Ways the In-Store Experience Shapes Retail in 2020

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A combination of advancing technology, the need to compete with online shopping, and modernized strategies has led to fundamental changes in stores of all kinds. To cover this idea in more detail, this article identifies five specific ways in which the in-store experience is shaping retail in 2020. More Versatile POS Systems.

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Top 10 Trends Driving Retail Growth

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As shoppers are increasingly headed back to stores, online purchases will settle to some lower number, likely closer to the $6.5 billion spent in March 2020, or about 10% of all grocery sales. . Consumers find the experience of buying online and picking up at store to be easy, convenient and a time saver.

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