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Cashierless Checkout Helps Alleviate Long Lines

Independent Retailer

79 percent of customers expressing their preference for checkout-less shopping. Checkout free-shopping is a cashier-less checkout system that detects shoppers’ product preferences and bills them when they close their shopping trip. Cashierless checkout may be the way of the future with how well shoppers are responding.

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You Can’t Spell Retail Without AI

Retail TouchPoints

Over the last year or so we’ve seen retailers and ecommerce sellers adopting AI tools at a frenetic pace. From backend inventory optimization to identifying salesfloor hotspots to highly targeted marketing programs, we’re seeing an influx of great retailing practices, all being driven by AI.

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Apple, Macy’s and IKEA Rank High in Innovation but Social Impact Scores are Mixed

Retail TouchPoints

What people think about when they focus on retail innovation is the tech side of the business — next-generation marketing tools, cutting-edge last mile vehicles, frictionless checkout — but there is still plenty of innovation happening in the more foundational strategies of running a retail business. However, Apple’s Sii score of 68.9

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How making data-driven decisions in retail is changing

Inside Retail

Doing this involves crunching a huge amount of data to enable highly targeted marketing campaigns and personalised product recommendations. This influences everything from how Walmart schedules staff and optimises product assortment to determining the best checkout type for a particular store and anticipating customer needs.

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The importance of an elite B2B customer experience

Inside Retail

With a greater proportion of the workforce than ever being represented by digital-natives (brand agnostic, experience and values driven, mobile first) and this proportion only expected to grow in coming years, it is more important than ever for retailers to re-evaluate their B2B experience strategies to put the customer at the forefront.

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Unveiling the Winning Playbook: What Retailers Can Learn from Online Sportsbooks

365 Retail

Whether it is the online sites themselves, available in many states now, or the convenience of user-friendly Texas betting apps , online sportsbooks have transformed the sports betting industry, while at the same time offering valuable lessons for traditional retailers looking to up their game.

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Navigating The Digital Shift In Pre-Owned Retail: A Guide For Small Businesses

Retail Minded

Step 1: Really Understand Your Target Market Here’s the scoop on getting real with your target market. For instance, take EchoPark—they knew folks wanted to buy trustworthy second-hand cars without sweating it out at a dealership. Let’s get your virtual shelves stocked up! So what did they do?