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The customer is in control: Here’s the new payment and checkout experience

Inside Retail

People flock to shopping centres and it is not just to procure goods and services; it is also about the experiential enjoyment, the social element and the ability to make more informed purchasing decisions.”. Offering choices: Self-service vs assisted service, cash vs non-cash payments.

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

Dick’s Sporting Goods also attributed part of the brand’s 23% profit drop in the second fiscal quarter of 2023 to theft ( CNBC ). External Theft According to the NRF, shoplifting and other forms of external theft, including burglary, accounted for 37% of reported shrink in 2022. Despite your efforts to hire good people, the U.S.

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Announcing: Retail Reborn Season 2

Retail Prophet

Retailers have to start thinking that brands are their clients and that they are here to service them,” says Gindi. Effectively, it’s a marketing suite of services inside of a physical retail environment,” continues Melloul. . […] The second lever they pull is, do I need it first hand or can I exchange with a friend?

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‘The Best Vision Is Insight’ — The Top Retail Trends Of 2020

Retail TouchPoints

While customer loyalty remains a top priority for executives, less than half believe their current approach is effective, according to a Mastercard-sponsored Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBR-AS) report of more than 400 executives globally. Michelle Carter oversees Mastercard’s Data & Services Global Retail practice.

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Mirakl CEO: Marketplaces are ‘Arming the Rebellion’ of Traditional Retail Against Big Tech

Retail TouchPoints

Giving heft to this shift have been the names steadily joining the ranks of marketplace operators — retail heavyweights like Hudson’s Bay , Macy’s , Simon Property Group and Kroger all have joined the fold, and the common denominator among many of them (and in the case of the above list, all of them) is SaaS marketplace platform Mirakl.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

Jason: [25:55] Well I mean a number of things so maybe just super high level what’s exciting to me like obviously a lot of this information about the business was not, publicly available so in the process of going public in issuing S1 they suddenly reveal a lot of things and they reveal things about.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 288 – News and Q4 Earnings Report’s

Retail Geek

Dicks Sporting Goods Walmart Target. just yesterday they filed one of their SEC documents their annual report effectively and surprised Wall Street with two little good nuggets so one of them is they’ve they’ve expanded their stock buyback. Q4 Earnings Reports. Best Buy Ulta Kohls Gap Nordstrom Ralph Lauren.