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Despite Recent Bad Press, Self-Checkout is Here to Stay. Here’s Why.

Retail TouchPoints

This is the first part of our two-part series, “ From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we go beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. Plus, despite all the vocal naysayers, many consumers actually like the technology.

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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

A network outage can mean lost sales in the short term, as shoppers simply move to another brand for that purchase, or losses in the long term if that customer does not return. A cyberattack that compromises customer personal information can diminish the trust consumers place in a brand.

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Fast Track to a Frictionless Future

Retail TouchPoints

From contactless payment to fully automated checkout, innovations showed promise for streamlining and improving the customer experience. There’s no question there’s more public attention on frictionless innovation, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a rapid, or wholesale, adoption of the technology. The Network’s Vital Role.

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A cost-of-living crisis is brewing in Asia. Here’s what it means for retail

Inside Retail

Retailers are caught in a tightening vise between soaring cost of goods and heavy competitive pressures, which places their margins increasingly at risk as long as they cannot pass through the costs to consumers in their entirety. Japan is an excellent case in point. So it has focused instead on supporting consumer incomes.

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6 POS Software Performance Metric Thrift Stores Must Track

I Vend

Global sales in 2024 are at $1.046 trillion US dollars, and forecast to grow by $130 billion to $1.176 trillion by 2028. Of all the consumer electronics, the favourite by a mile is the smartphone. Today’s ‘must-have’ device is tomorrow’s ‘has been’. Showrooming – Shoppers usually start their electronics research online. .

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How to Use E-Commerce To Foray Into Retail

Rangeme

More and more food and beverage consumer packaged goods (CPG) discovery and commerce is happening online. Consumers discover products online. Undoubtedly, a utopia for many CPG manufacturers is seeing their products go into shopping carts and out the checkout aisle. Ninety five percent of new products fail, according to INC.

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Cross-Channel Home Décor Retailing: 5 Take Away Lessons from The Game Changers

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans.