Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Now, Owens said the company also plans to begin testing a 100% self-checkout store format across 200 locations this year. Self-checkout provides customers with another flexible and convenient checkout solution, while also driving greater efficiencies for our store associates,” said Owens on the earnings call.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

As digital-first shopping is here to stay, retailers must invest in connected experiences — and success hinges on frictionless operations. Creating cohesive customer experiences. Today’s consumers expect more than just personalised experiences. Unifying customer data. And consumers can feel it.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

While many holiday shoppers favor online experiences to avoid waiting in endless checkout lines or battling over parking spaces, many now face competition from a new challenger: automated bad bots. For retailers, inventory hoarding by bad bots has become a critical challenge to manage during the holiday shopping season.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Industry experts gathered at Manhattan Momentum 2023 in Phoenix to discuss their approaches to these various challenges. For our customers it’s all about breadth.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2023

As a result, customer flow management is more important than ever as leaders seek to empower the customer, improve the employee experience and collect actionable data to potentially scale their business. Three years later, customers would rather not spend time in such close proximity to others if they can help it.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Walmart Canada is implementing an automated AI assist at all of its stores to help keep shelves stocked and enhance the customer and associate experience both in-store and online. Walmart also has built out its inventory management capabilities at its U.S.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Having found out that “traditional” management tools have become less relevant, brands were forced to rethink their processes to survive, stay relevant and true to their audiences. . On the one hand, operational changes and on the other hand, changes linked to the user experience. Ghalia BOUSTANI, PhD.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

The VIP Suite, which is expected to open later in 2024 in the center’s luxury wing, The Adirondacks District, also will host private events and offer personalized service and curated customer experiences. Woodbury Common, located in New York’s Hudson Valley, draws more than 10 million shoppers annually.

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365 Retail

MAY 23, 2022

Braehead owned by property company SGS and asset managed by Global Mutual Properties, has announced that H&M has opened the doors to its new new Braehead store in Glasgow. H&M has re-located from its former unit to a new ground floor space, spanning 17,000 sq ft, on a 10-year lease. million and has excellent transport links.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Retail has certainly been at the front of the pandemic rollercoaster. Combine this with a customer base whose expectations of what makes a great experience have continued to rise, and in some cases are heightened through periods of lockdown, and you have a sense of the challenge facing the retail sector.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

The acceptance of cash has started to trend upwards again, but payment technology is helping businesses to deliver consistently better experiences, so what does the future hold? Cashless transactions grew significantly at the start of Covid-19 but, over the past year or so, cash acceptance has rebounded slightly.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2021

A Crisis at Traditional Retail. Chain retailers face fierce competition today on many fronts, not least of which is just getting the customer into the store. Today’s customer continues to reward them for it. Changing a store’s heating and cooling has a direct impact on customers and staff alike. How is this managed?

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I Vend

MARCH 17, 2023

Ask any retailer and they’ll tell you that an enhanced customer experience is at the top of their ‘must do’ list. Improving customer experience is the key to winning new customers, keeping existing ones happy and bumping up revenue and profit.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

H&M Group is rolling out a pilot of several new tech-enabled in-store shopping solutions at COS stores in the U.S., COS (which stands for Collection of Style) is owned by H&M and currently operates 13 locations across the U.S. location, with additional locations getting the upgrades later this year.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Beaverbrooks, the family-owned jewellery retailer, has opened a brand-new boutique at centre:mk Milton Keynes, one of the top 10 retail destinations in the UK. We are pleased to see Beaverbrook’s new upsized store open in time for Christmas, accommodating high demand and enriching the customer experience.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

DTC brand Good American has introduced a new immersive in-store experience at its LA flagship in the Westfield Century City mall, powered by a series of Samsung commercial LED displays. Image courtesy Samsung Inside the store a custom 31.5-foot-wide Launched in 2016, the brand opened its flagship store in June 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s energizing to think about customer experience transformation and what that could possibly mean for a business. In the retail industry, many organizations are at a pivotal moment of forging a path forward to define the future-state customer experience where the physical and digital converge.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Challenges for Retailers Like any form of loitering, the prospect of homeless camps and unhoused individuals making themselves at home on the doorstep of retail stores comes with its fair share of risks. For instance, they can be overwhelmingly dehumanizing toward homeless individuals, and in some cases, dangerous.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. Brands that typically take the large-format route are adopting smaller footprints in residential neighborhoods.

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365 Retail

JUNE 8, 2023

TeamViewer’s website now instantly recognizes a customer’s location, ensuring they are directed to the correct page in the appropriate language.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As consumers increasingly turn to online methods of shopping, the physical retail space also needs to be able to adapt to these challenges and keep up with the pace of transformation – meaning customer service and the customer experience must be engaging and worthwhile for in-store shoppers. Empowering store associates .

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2020

It’s long been a retail “business basic” to keep stores clean, both for purposes of hygiene and to create a positive customer experience. Consumers and employees returning to reopened stores will be looking for positive proof that these locations are safe, and that shopper journeys have been redesigned to be as “touchless” as possible.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2023 pilot showed that the self-checkout experience was twice as fast at stores with the Express model compared to those without. “By While there is some resistance to self-service POS, the efficiency and cost-effectiveness can’t be overlooked,” said Benjamin Bond, Principal at Kearney in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

Even though stores could remain open, and Erik’s took safety seriously with reduced hours at some locations and social distancing procedures, the pandemic still presented significant challenges for a retailer focused on large, expensive and fit-centric purchases like bicycles. They wanted to pick up an order already placed online.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Marks & Spencer has today (Wednesday 15th November) officially opened its new store in Lakeside – one of the UK’s most popular retail and leisure destinations, owned by property company SGS and asset managed by Global Mutual. The post M&S opens new 97,000 sq ft store at Lakeside appeared first on Retail Focus - Retail Design.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

If you asked our CEO pre-pandemic who we were, he would say we are a marketing and entertainment company that happens to sell shoes ,” said Jenna Flateman Posner, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Snipes in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We However, reaching its current level of success — 308 U.S.

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Frank Mayer

MAY 10, 2021

teams with the Illinois-based cannabis dispensary on a self-service kiosk program for the business’s multiple locations. to produce self-service kiosks for the company’s many locations. The interactive kiosks allow customers to browse the store menu and place orders while learning more about products available.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

At Home Group Inc. is deploying a new order management system (OMS) as the home décor retailer seeks to offer a more modern omnichannel customer experience and improve in-store fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2024

While customers come to browse the physical shelf, your digital shelf goes to the customer. It can constantly and immediately change the way it is arranged to beat other shelves at capturing the customer’s attention. It may even improve customer experience by providing opportunities to buy items at a lower cost.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

At its core, the brand is focused on making sure anyone and everyone can benefit from and enjoy fitness. And those core beliefs are reflected in everything the brand touches, whether it be an influencer partnership or an in-store experience. “We The small-but-mighty 605-square-foot space at the Westchester Mall in White Plains, N.Y.

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Hyken

AUGUST 4, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Srushti Shah, a digital marketer focused on effectively helping her clients and customers achieve their desired results. She writes about how artificial intelligence and machine learning technology can help businesses automate processes and put more focus on delivering amazing customer experiences.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

At least that was the key message at Retail’s Big Show, the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual conference, which is being held in New York City this week. But what does that mean for the retail industry and how can it be applied to drive sales and enhance the customer experience?

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I Vend

JULY 8, 2021

What I am hearing, and is supported by expert 3 rd party research, is a consistent pattern of four key priorities: in-store customer experience, knowledgeable staff, personalised loyalty programs and social media marketing. The in-store customer experience is that differentiation.

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Hyken

APRIL 8, 2022

He has experience across the Contact Center spanning Hiring, Training, Quality, Workforce Management, and Performance Management. He shares how retailers can understand the digital customer experience in the retail world. Let’s look at some of the important factors which retailers must consider: .

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2020

And although store managers and associates will play a crucial role in how the industry moves forward, industry experts affirm that all members of the retail enterprise — from the C-level on down — must prioritize learning and development in order to acquire the skills needed to adapt and evolve in a world affected by COVID-19.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

29, 2023, offering design consultations as well as a location where customers can pick up their online orders. The 10,800-square-foot location in Southlake joins two large-format stores in Frisco and Grand Prairie, Texas. omnichannel operations, including opening nine Plan and Order Point locations. in a statement.

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Retail Customer Experience

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Reputation management for multi-location enterprises is hard. AI can help.

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