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Dollar General Voids Self-Checkout at 12,000 Stores, Citing Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

What a difference two years make: Dollar General was enthusiastic enough about self-checkout in June 2022 that it announced trialing 100% self-checkout at 200 stores. Dollar General also is focusing on reducing turnover among managers, in part with improvements to supply chain and merchandising functions.

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14 Point of Sale Systems for Small Businesses in 2023

Small Biz Trends

A point-of-sale system is one of the best tools for small businesses looking to accept payments. Point-of-sale systems enable business owners to be more agile with their payment processing and forego using the cash drawer. We’ll look at some of the top POS solutions currently available for this article.

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Move Past Hype to Focus on Value with AI Implementations in the POS Space

Retail TouchPoints

In the point of sale (POS) space, three AI applications show particular promise: Headcount and Heat Mapping in Brick-and-Mortar Retail Insights from shopper behavior data are valuable – and financially impactful – to retailers. Businesses must work with software providers that help them manage data consent, privacy, and compliance.

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

Retail TouchPoints

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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Target Rolls Out 10-Item Self-Checkout Limit Chainwide

Retail TouchPoints

The 2023 pilot showed that the self-checkout experience was twice as fast at stores with the Express model compared to those without. “By Despite some consumer and retailer complaints about self-checkout , the technology is well entrenched in retail store operations.

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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. At the top of the list is computer vision — a field of artificial intelligence that enables computers to interpret digital images or video.

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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. Ed Spears is a technical marketing manager in Eaton ’s Critical Power and Digital Infrastructure Division in Raleigh, N.C.