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Outgoing Myer CEO John King on why Black Friday might overtake Christmas

Inside Retail

At Myer’s annual general meeting this week, outgoing CEO John King predicted that trading activity on Black Friday would likely surpass Christmas, with the department store preparing stock ahead of time to mitigate any logistical delays related to potential industrial action. per cent increase in total sales to $3.36

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AWS to Invest an Additional $7.8B to Expand Ohio Facilities

Retail TouchPoints

This positions Ohio as a critical location for the most discussed technology in the world, artificial intelligence,” said Ohio Lt. DeWine also said that numerous localities in Central Ohio are under consideration for the new data center campuses but that final site selections will be decided at a later date.

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Utilizing the External Data Boom for Digital Shelf Optimization

Retail TouchPoints

It can constantly and immediately change the way it is arranged to beat other shelves at capturing the customer’s attention. What you are optimizing are essentially two things: How the users find your products What they see when looking at them. Location-based analytics: Many ecommerce websites have geo-restricted content.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

It also requires businesses to create a digital wallet, obtain a shareable QR code and keep track of every checkout location. Do you ever think about the customer instincts at checkout? The issue with this is that both retailers and customers have to have accounts set up in the same exchange platform.

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How NTI and Cisco Networking Academy are preparing Egypt for the IT jobs of the future

Cisco Retail

For its efforts in workforce development and improvement in Egypt, Cisco Networking Academy partner, the National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), is a deserving winner of a Be the Bridge award. The main specialty of NTI is telecommunication and networking which is empowered by Cisco programs.

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Key Disaster Preparedness Takeaways for Retailers from an Eventful Summer

Retail TouchPoints

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. He can be reached at EdSpears@Eaton.com. While summer temperatures might be finally dying down, hurricane season is still active.

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Strategies for Retailers to Weather the Storm this Hurricane Season

Retail TouchPoints

According to the Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis, more than 60% of outages reported in the time covered resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. He can be reached at EdSpears@Eaton.com.