Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Convenience store retailer Royal Farms will implement NCR Corporation ’s self-checkout solutions in all of its more than 250 locations. The technology is expected to boost staff efficiency while improving the in-store experience for customers. “We Market research firm RBR expects the uptake of self-checkout to reach 1.2 million units by 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2020

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. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): What are the most important roles for facilities management as retail stores reopen?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Recently, Hurricane Idalia caused 350,000 outages in Florida and Georgia, while Hurricane Ophelia brought damage that left at least 140,000 people without power across Virginia and parts of North Carolina. Ed Spears is a technical marketing manager in Eaton ’s Critical Power and Digital Infrastructure Division in Raleigh, N.C.

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Star Miconics

JANUARY 26, 2023

But while those things are still in the realm of science fiction, AI has become increasingly engrained in the modern technology we now use every day, from our smartphones to our point-of-sale (POS) systems. In fact, a recent blog posted by Techjury revealed that the AI market is projected to grow at CAGR of 38.0%

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

million mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices in the U.S. Below are five practical use cases for retail-based mobile point-of-sale. Not only can you look it up in your store, but you can look up products in sister stores and reserve the product at that location.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

Evaluate Your Retail Store’s Location. Every retail store has unique property characteristics that should be taken into consideration when deciding on physical security — one of which includes where your store is located. Use a video management system: Video analytics software gives you valuable data and insights into your footage.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The convenience store experience just got more convenient at Chartw ells , a division of Compass Group that operates thousands of stores on college and corporate campuses. The retailer recently debuted its first store to be retrofitted with checkout-free technology at the University of Houston campus.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The digitization of brick-and-mortar stores is nothing new, but up until recently it has primarily been focused on surfaces in the store that are already digital: point-of-sale systems or back-of-house tasks like inventory management. But we do,” said Partap Sandhu, Head of Pricing at Rema 1000 during a session at NRF.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 1, 2024

At the top of that list is the effect locks and cases can have on well-intentioned shoppers when not deployed as part of a holistic, data-led loss prevention strategy. Some (7%) even head to other retailers when finding products behind lock and key at their first choice. This provides a deeper understanding of the items most at risk.

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Rangeme

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The most common way to inform customers of where to find a brand’s products is via a store locator on their website. Therefore, if a brand’s product is rung up at a register within the last couple of weeks, the item could still show up as in-stock at that location.

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Star Miconics

JANUARY 10, 2024

Industry leader Star Micronics is set to make a significant impact at Retail’s Big Show with its latest range of innovative POS hardware and technology for the modern age. The event, known as Retail’s Big Show, will be held at the Jacob K. We look forward to welcoming you at Booth 5656! Love Industry News?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon has incorporated RFID capabilities into its Just Walk Out cashierless technology to handle the sale of apparel and fan gear at two Seattle sports venues. Eight of our concessions locations are already using Just Walk Out technology and seeing great results.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

Located within Chadstone shopping centre, the largest shopping centre in Australia, the tweaked design comes as Vicinity Group invests in making Chadstone a renowned food destination in addition to being known as the nation’s “fashion capital.” Trial and error For Coles, the ability to learn from the Chadstone store is key.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

Square is revolutionising the way small and medium-sized retailers can manage inventory and payments through a combination of next-generation hardware and custom-built software. Michael Harms, owner of omnichannel retailer Barrowby Green, upgraded to Square Point of Sale for Retail when the company opened its first physical store. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

There’s no doubt the technology can bring tremendous benefits, such as allowing more customers to pay at the same time, thus reducing wait times without having to staff additional cashier stations. According to one survey , an astonishing 67% of shoppers said they’d experienced a failure at the self-checkout lane.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

The Vitamin Shoppe has deployed HughesOn managed network services across its more than 700 U.S. retail locations, both owned and franchise, to support its ongoing digital transformation. “The Hughes team met our needs for secure, cloud-centered digital operations at every store, cost-effectively and with an eye to the future.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

In short, AIOps is like DevOps, in that it brings together service and performance management along with automation to provide continuous insights and enable improvement. Because of this, Gartner recently introduced AI Networking , which is a subset of AIOps defined as more efficient way to manage Day 2 network operations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

Iconic French fashion brand Longchamp has just opened the doors to a newly renovated apartment at the ‘Paris end’ of Melbourne’s Collins Street in a way that is très chic. A family business Longchamp is a French luxury brand with four generations of family business at its heart.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2023

Here, we speak with the brand’s general manager, Van Mulryan, about the new Tag Heuer boutique in Adelaide, the increased demand for luxury items and how her upbringing has shaped her career. VM: We have seven stand-alone boutiques located all across Australia. It’s been a long time coming. We had two versions.

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Wiser

APRIL 9, 2024

We’re often asked to describe, step by step, how CPG customers utilize Wiser’s platform to overcome sales challenges both at the corporate level and within the store environment. Their goals include discussing the issues with store managers, rectifying the problems, and capturing relevant information to feed back into the system.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

Many of us have become experts at navigating an ecommerce site in seconds, and some of us may even pay for groceries via mobile apps on our smartphones. The cloud brings all solutions, spreadsheets, vendors and technical capabilities into a central location to improve control and flexibility.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

More than 800 AWG member retailer locations already use Instacart, and this extended collaboration aims to simplify access for the other 2,300 member retailer locations to join Instacart’s technology suite. An Instacart shopper will then pick and deliver the order.

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A1 Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

urmet vending machines that has just been launched at Barcelona Airport. software – ideal for non-technical users – is enabling Enrique Tomás to manage its product campaigns and broadcast its corporate image on the displays of its vending machines, inviting the customer to discover the ham experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In the early days and now, criminals stole cardholder data from internet-connected point-of-sale (POS) systems to make their own fraudulent transactions. Criminals then sought out the locations where merchants stored cardholder data. The war between criminal gangs and the payment industry has been raging for some time.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. margin points when their customers’ journeys are not optimized, but when they are optimized, they can recover about 70% of that margin loss,” explained Buzek.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

Increasingly, however, their focus has turned to the large amounts of data processed at the “edge,” and not just transactional information: inventory, sensor, capacity, video, performance — across tens to hundreds of devices in each store. However, like any tool, cloud works well for some jobs but not others.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Depending on your location or target demographic, both options can be very valuable for your customers. So when the retailer makes changes to the integrated system — which can be anything from a point-of-sale system to an Excel sheet with inventory items — these changes are automatically implemented into the signage.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

According to Grand View Research , the global IoT retail market was valued at $42.38 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 28.4% The statistics show that more and more retail businesses are implementing IoT solutions to explore new ways of connecting with customers, boost sales and streamline business operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Spanish fashion retailer Encuentro Moda is deploying a radio frequency identification solution across its 125 stores, both to meet omnichannel requirements and to gain visibility into the stock availability at each store and throughout the supply chain. D Cloud RFID inventory-management software.

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A1 Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Sim Local, a seller of SIM cards in the UK travel market, has opened a brand-new retail store at Brussels Airport in Belgium. The new store is located in baggage reclaim and is Sim Local’s first stand-alone store outside of the UK & Ireland. Brussles Airport. © Robert Tjalondo.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2023

The survey of 502 executives was designed to assess the challenges and priorities of executives charged with making decisions regarding employee scheduling, communication, task management and learning. A recession and a labor shortage have never happened at the same time,” Kramer explained. “A

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

The legal cannabis market was valued at $12.81 Now the retailers, with 25 and six brick-and-mortar locations respectively, are bringing their brands to the next level through highly immersive store experiences and a concentrated focused on store growth. Cutting-Edge In-Store Tech on Display at #RICE22. billion globally by 2026.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 1, 2024

NationsBenefits, the market leader for supplemental benefits and health care fintech solutions serving the health care managed care market, announced that Southeastern Grocers (SEG), parent company and home of Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, has joined NationsBenefits’ network of grocery and over-the-counter (O-T-C) retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

retail executives whose stores offered at least one method of store-based online order fulfillment — revealed that the pandemic triggered a 5X increase in ecommerce volume in 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. In-store inventory management needs to match warehouse accuracy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2021

Lightspeed POS , a provider of cloud-based, omnichannel commerce platforms, will acquire cloud-based retail management software company Vend for approximately $350 million. The deal is expected to close at the end of April 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, with Lightspeed paying approximately $192.5

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2021

“We’re building a new e-commerce site, we’re implementing marketing cloud and service cloud, we’re implementing a customer data platform (CDP), and on top of that, we’re implementing a new order management system and mobile point of sale platform,” Alexander told Inside Retail.

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