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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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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Brands and retailers realize there is no one-size-fits-all strategy for stores — and design teams are rising to the challenge by thinking more creatively and thoughtfully about how they can innovate through new formats, technologies and collaboration methods. Gonzalez: The community-driven aspect is a big part of it.

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

Address the self-checkout issue: Staffing constraints have made self-checkouts a popular fixture in stores of all sizes. Chamber of Commerce indicates that 75% of all employees have stolen from their employer at least once. Throughout his retail career, loss prevention remained a focus.

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Facilities Management CEO: ‘Cleanliness Will Be Looked At In An Entirely Different Lens’

Retail TouchPoints

However, we’re seeing some retailers that had never before considered a janitorial program now looking at them. We have approximately 40 retail clients, with store counts that range from 60 to 10,000 stores , and they are all talking about these factors. Cleanliness will be looked at in an entirely different lens going forward.

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Keeping Stores Safe Amid the Autonomous Retail Revolution

Retail TouchPoints

Autonomous retail technology is on the rise, with innovations like Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology already leapfrogging past yesterday’s self-checkout solutions. Still, some retailers remain reluctant to rely too heavily on autonomous technology, fearing the potential dangers associated with leaving a store “unguarded.”

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Stop out of stocks denting your profits this holiday season

I Vend

Read more Retail operations are built on a number of interlocking processes, each of which feeds into, or from the others. Here we take a look at how retail technology can help to streamline the top 10 key retail processes, and how a unified retail POS pulls them all together into a single, highly optimized retail operations platform.

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

Retalon

Adopting BOPIS can be challenging so we’ll explain how you can successfully merge your online and physical store operations. BOPIS, meaning Buy Online, Pickup In-Store, is an order fulfillment option that helps retailers connect their e-commerce channels with their brick-and-mortar storefronts. What is BOPIS?