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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. Those same cameras and sensors also are at the heart of the grab-and-go checkout system featured in Amazon Go stores.

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Computer Vision and AI: the new weapon against shoplifters

365 Retail

Inferring meaningful information from digital images and videos: retailers’ hopes to have a new, highly efficient tool against shoplifting, loss and organised crime in future are based on Computer Vision, a sub-segment of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The camera points at the scan area of the self-checkout terminal.

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EuroShop 2023 – Retail Technology Stage and Connected Retail Stage: IT trends, innovations and hands-on tips

Retail Focus

Value Added Friction: A New Way to Look at Loss Prevention at Self-Checkout. Michał Wesołowski, Checkpoint Systems, Strategic Account Manager. Frank Heinrich, Pentland Firth Software GmbH – a company forming part of the EDEKA Minden-Hannover Stiftung & Co. End-to-End Digitalisation in Claim Management.

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

That’s why it’s important to understand the most common forms of theft and the measures you can take to prevent loss without deterring valued customers. External Theft According to the NRF, shoplifting and other forms of external theft, including burglary, accounted for 37% of reported shrink in 2022.

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5 Major Retail Digital Transformations to Watch For in 2021

Retalon

However, traditional spreadsheet analytics cannot account for store-by-store variations in the promotion’s effectiveness or secondary effects such as demand cannibalization. Online sales now account for more than 20% of total retail sales. Online sales are as mission-critical as in-store sales to today’s retail business.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

At checkout, the shopper would have multiple fulfillment options to select from – including BOPIS. The rise of at-home delivery forced loss prevention managers to start looking beyond the store. Whereas BOPIS shifts the delivery to the retail premises where store employees and loss prevention practices control every order.

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Retail x Fintech: The Importance of Security in Retail’s Adoption of BOPIS and Payment Installment Plans

Retail TouchPoints

When they do, they create accounts and pass credit checks using stolen consumer information. They then order and intercept items before these can be delivered to the unsuspecting victim, who is mostly unaware of accounts opened in their name or goods purchased on their account. Tokenized Data is Useless to Fraudsters.