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5G in Retail: Creating the WOW factor

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers that understand the customer journey and adopt innovative strategies are looking at ways to turn their brick-and-mortar stores into experience centers. 5G provides an alternate method to keep the store connected at all times. 5G can reduce wasted time and prevent inventory shrinkage, providing retailers with cost savings.

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How Retailers can Combat Inventory Shrinkage with Drone-Powered Warehouse Monitoring

Retail TouchPoints

There’s been a lot of talk recently about retailers reporting lower-than-expected earnings due to inventory shrinkage. According to the Corporate Finance Institute , “Inventory shrinkage occurs when the number of products in stock are fewer than those recorded on the inventory list. days, and one doubled its sales in one year. .”

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Smaller Spaces, Bigger Tech and Optimized CX

Retail TouchPoints

The chatter of the store “being dead” is evolving from belief that the physical store is fading amid the shift to digital, to seeing that it’s the role of the store that is changing — and a vital one at that. To curb shrinkage, self-pay via an app is used to let shoppers and guests purchase items themselves.

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How to Deliver a Flawless In-Store Customer Experience

Independent Retailer

The most common area in-store that retailers focus on to improve customer engagement is at the Point of Sale (POS). The adoption of RFID technology also allows retailers to reduce the friction at checkout points. According to the NRF National Retail Study 2018 , inventory shrinkage costs the U.S.

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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. 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”. Instead, it’s possible to train deep learning AI models at the point of sale (PoS).

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How Retailers Meet Tough Challenges Using NVIDIA AI 

Nvidia

At the National Retail Federation’s annual trade show, conversations tend to touch on recurring themes: “Will we be able to stock must-have products for next Christmas?,” “What incentives can I offer to loyal workers?” AiFi, AWM and Trigo’s autonomous shopping platforms, each shown at NRF, provide a seamless store checkout process.

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Is Your Wine & Liquor Store Stuck in the Past? Unlock Growth with Integrated POS

I Vend

We take a look at how modern, integrated POS for wine and liquor stores can unlock a future of growth. Our modern POS for wine and liquor stores unlocks growth Read more The global at home alcoholic drinks market is worth $1070 billion and is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4%.