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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

That’s worrying in an increasingly competitive environment where customer engagement and user experience are becoming more important than ever. Customer Experience It’s been five years since Amazon Go opened to the public, creating the template for the retail store of the future by allowing shoppers to skip the checkout line entirely.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Retail TouchPoints asked experts across the store design, experience and technology realms to share the trends they believe will drive brick-and-mortar innovation. customer experience). Nothing is more difficult than seeing the problem from another’s vantage point — this is where the executive sponsor plays a critical role.

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

Retail TouchPoints

It’s long been a retail “business basic” to keep stores clean, both for purposes of hygiene and to create a positive customer experience. However, we’re seeing some retailers that had never before considered a janitorial program now looking at them. Cleanliness will be looked at in an entirely different lens going forward.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

That means asking questions like: What more can be done to deter theft using store layout, customer flow, shelf height, mirrors, lighting and the placement of gondolas, merchandise and security cameras? What are the most customer-friendly ways to protect high-value items from smash-and-grabs? Here are three possible areas of focus.

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Mobile technology – serving both sides of the retail coin

365 Retail

A process that might seem perfectly logical to a Developer may not deliver the expected benefits to customers and store teams in real-life scenarios. To achieve successful implementation, retailers must ensure that they involve store teams in the new technology journey and customer experience design, right from the get-go.

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While tech giants have their heads in the clouds, this is why other retailers don’t need to follow suit

A1 Retail

By Ofri Ben Porat, Chief Executive Officer at Edgify. As counterintuitive as it is, we all know losses are an accepted norm in retailing. Factored into the bottom line, as sales increase for stores, so will the losses of product inventory. Loss prevention teams call this inevitable outcome “external shrinkage”.

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

Chamber of Commerce indicates that 75% of all employees have stolen from their employer at least once. Questions could include what they would do if they saw a coworker stealing or what they would do if they noticed they had extra money in their till at the end of a shift. Throughout his retail career, loss prevention remained a focus.