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Lowe’s Employs RFID, Blockchain to Combat Retail Theft

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Called Project Unlock , the new technology combines low-cost RFID chips and IoT sensors to activate power tools at the point of purchase while also creating a secure, publicly accessible and anonymized record of legitimate purchases on the blockchain. Visualization of how Project Unlock RFID tags will work.

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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

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The retailer will instead rely more heavily on its smart Amazon Dash Carts , which have been deployed at Fresh stores since 2020 as well as at Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods. 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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How to Keep Your Digital Signage up to Date

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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. Dynamic templates are pre-designed layouts that update themselves based on data they receive from an integrated system.

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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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FTD Deploys New Online Tools in Bid to Expand Adoption by SMB Florist Network

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After nearly a decade of underinvestment in its tech stack, FTD began making significant solution investments in early 2020 centered on its upgraded Mercury HQ (MHQ) solution. Our attitude is the members are most important ,” said Powell.