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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. Those same cameras and sensors also are at the heart of the grab-and-go checkout system featured in Amazon Go stores.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Brands and retailers realize there is no one-size-fits-all strategy for stores — and design teams are rising to the challenge by thinking more creatively and thoughtfully about how they can innovate through new formats, technologies and collaboration methods. Gonzalez: The community-driven aspect is a big part of it.

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

Retail TouchPoints

However, we’re seeing some retailers that had never before considered a janitorial program now looking at them. We have approximately 40 retail clients, with store counts that range from 60 to 10,000 stores , and they are all talking about these factors. Cleanliness will be looked at in an entirely different lens going forward.

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How to Design Your Retail Space With Security in Mind

Retail TouchPoints

When designing your retail space, where and how you use security cameras is key to loss prevention. Strategically place your cameras: Having eyes across the entire store is essential, but it’s especially critical to have clear visibility of what’s going on at the most important spots of the retail property.

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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? How can we better integrate the latest anti-theft technologies and loss-prevention research into our store designs from the outset?

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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.

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Stop out of stocks denting your profits this holiday season

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Read more Retail operations are built on a number of interlocking processes, each of which feeds into, or from the others. Here we take a look at how retail technology can help to streamline the top 10 key retail processes, and how a unified retail POS pulls them all together into a single, highly optimized retail operations platform.