Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. Retailers using cashier-based systems also are focusing on updating hardware and software to improve the checkout experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2017, Polywood had a great product sustainability story (its outdoor furniture is made from 100% recycled plastic and comes with a 20-year guarantee) and a solid launching pad for direct-to-consumer sales (a 27 -year history of selling through big box, home improvement and specialty patio stores). said Narang.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2022

over its mobile Express Pay shopping app. The Scan & Go technology was introduced to afford an easier shopping experience to customers through scanning and bagging items as they shop, eventually checking out and paying with their mobile devices. Walmart Inc. has filed a lawsuit against BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

As ecommerce has become a part of everyday life, customers have felt empowered to take control of their checkout experiences both in-store and at home. A recent study found shoppers of all demographics are warming up to the idea of self-checkout, seeing it as a faster option that eliminates the need to wait in line.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Last month Booths axed its self-service checkouts in all but two of its 28 stores, claiming the move was in response to customer demand. The high-end supermarket will only retain self-checkouts in its Windermere and Keswick stores in the Lake District as these stores can become very busy. Busby thinks it was a factor for the grocer. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2022

CPG advertisers can now offer consumers a multi-retailer checkout experience directly from their Yahoo native ads and display inventory, allowing consumers to make a purchase from their preferred retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

New research from Capterra finds that tip fatigue — exhaustion caused by the pressure to tip more money to a widening array of workers — is a serious problem affecting most consumers who use checkout tablets at restaurants and other businesses. This should give pause to any business that uses checkout tablets.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 20, 2023

Walmart is the first retailer to test out TalkShopLive ’s new “shoppable simulcast” feature, which allows brands to broadcast live shopping events simultaneously across up to four different online destinations, including the TalkShopLive platform, their own website and Facebook.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

Albertsons Companies will launch cart-based smart checkout technology later this year at select supermarkets throughout the country, in partnership with Veeve Smart Carts. we are building a link between multiple consumer channels and the brands they trust while keeping customer loyalty central to the experience.”. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For the first episode, we spoke to industry expert and Swinburne University professor Jason Pallant about the rise of checkout-free stores, what they can offer the sector, and the barriers they need to overcome to succeed. Checkout-free stores also open up the potential for new and innovative ways of designing stores.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2021

The partnership relies on the launch of Adyen’s ‘Giving’ platform, which allows merchants to accept charitable donations during an online checkout process. The post H&M opens up donations at checkout to support vaccinating kids worldwide appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This is not just a transient trend but a robust response to the changing consumer, who now craves the tactile satisfaction of in-store shopping along with the personalisation and convenience of online commerce. Today’s consumers might browse products online and then feel, try and buy them in physical stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Retailers need to ensure their systems can scale to upcoming seasonal traffic spikes like Cyber Week so they can capture the attention and wallet share of the numerous consumers hunting online for deals. However, while the holiday shopping rush comes with significant opportunity — Cyber Monday 2023 alone is estimated to generate $13.7

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Back in 2020, Amazon opened its first Amazon Go store in Seattle, introducing consumers to the concept of full-size, cashierless grocery stores. If they opt for the autonomous checkout, customers need to use the Rewe app to register at the entrance to the store. All the payments would be done automatically. Already at it in Singapore.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The AI-powered autonomous shopping experience just got bigger, in the form of a 4,000-square-foot hybrid convenience market called AI Go in Shanghai. The store combines a manned checkout with the use of computer vision as part of checkout-free shopping powered by AiFi Solutions.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In-store shopping has rebounded post-pandemic. Despite the convenience of online, consumers are attracted by the social and immersive experience of physical stores. However, post-pandemic physical shopping is a different beast to the olden days. However, post-pandemic physical shopping is a different beast to the olden days.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a result of these new approaches, customers now expect a secure, seamless shopping experience whether they are shopping in-person or online. One of the most common complaints customers have is waiting too long in checkout lines. Identifying customers also can help retailers discreetly personalize their shopping experience.

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Tokinomo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Campaign scoop M&M Lovin’. In this commercial , Maya Rudolph, a big fan of M&M's, shared that many people, including her, love her. To highlight this, she presented a pie chart displaying the majority of people love her. As a result of this commonality, she announced that her face will be printed on all M&M's packaging.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

“New year, new you,” is a slightly hackneyed marketing trope, but it is still true that consumers are, in fact, looking to improve their lives at the beginning of the year. Whether it’s eating better, working out more, cleaning out their makeup bags or refreshing their home décor, consumers are motivated to reset.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

In an era of fierce competition to attract consumers’ tightening budgets, customer experience has become the key edge retailers can deploy to stand above the competition. The best-in-class checkout tools can be used at permanent shops, pop-up stores, or events and staff can take payments with the confidence of 99.9

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Proper security is imperative to any business’ bottom line and the integrity of their brand, but how can that be achieved without increasing the burden on the end consumer? A unique key pair is created for every website, service and app that the consumer needs to access, and is tied to a specific site or application. Enter passkeys.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2022

We’re excited to bring the smooth Klarna shopping experience to life for the first time in Los Angeles, spotlighting mission driven merchant partners that support a range of important causes from sustainability in fashion to clean beauty ,” said Behal in a statement.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

E-commerce skyrocketed when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, as more consumers realised its ease and convenience. However, the past few years have also exposed what online shopping just cannot replicate – human interaction, experiential shopping and social connection. . “We We are all inherently social beings.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

CVS Pharmacy has implemented touch-free checkout using PayPal and Venmo QR codes at all 8,200 standalone retail locations, reaching a milestone set at the start of the partnership in July 2020. Introducing more digital options, including touch-free payments at the register, is in step with changing consumer preferences.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

Pinterest has signed a definitive agreement to acquire THE YES , an AI-powered platform that allows consumers to personalize their shopping feeds based on their brand, style and size preferences. THE YES team are experts in building an end-to-end shopping experience,” said Silbermann in a statement.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Here, he shares the new tech that has caught his eye, and how changing consumer behaviour is affecting the business. IR : We’ve seen consumer behaviour change a lot recently, between the pandemic and the current cost-of-living crisis. BB: It’s hard to be predictive about what consumers are going to do.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In the last two months alone, TikTok has rolled out dedicated “Shopping Tabs” for Shopify merchants, Twitter began a pilot of its “Shop Module,” and Pinterest made it possible for creators to “control the shopability of their content” by tagging products. There’s no time to waste, because consumers are already there.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

These concerns are fueling consumer expectations for more contactless experiences everywhere they go, including the retail environment. To mitigate health and safety concerns and deliver on these expectations, retailers are designing touchless shopping experiences with the help of voice and speech recognition technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

That sense of unease is to be expected from a cohort shaped by both the 2008-2009 Great Recession and the COVID pandemic, and it’s had a big impact on their shopping choices: nearly half ( 48% ) say they shop the most often at discount/off-price retailers, and 25% frequently patronize dollar stores.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

The world’s largest retailer shared expansive plans for the future of retail at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), focusing on adaptive retail strategies that encompass realms of customers, workforce and society. Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised.

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A1 Retail

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Study commissioned by Paysafe reveals that 63% of online businesses globally see their checkout as a competitive advantage in response to changing consumer preferences, but stumbling blocks remain. A third of online businesses say they are currently an easy target for fraudsters (33%) and uncompetitive on fraud prevention (34%).

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

79 percent of customers expressing their preference for checkout-less shopping. Checkout free-shopping is a cashier-less checkout system that detects shoppers’ product preferences and bills them when they close their shopping trip. What is Checkout-Free Shopping? Real-Time Inventory Tracking.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

That translates into gift shops and cafeteria spaces that are often sterile environments featuring the same mediocre-quality products and pre-packaged foods. In typical gift shops, “you see a lot of things behind glass display cases, but what people are usually looking for is some deodorant or even a hairbrush,” she said. “So

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

Cost-of-living has gone from crunch to crisis and with this new economic reality has come new consumer behaviours. This shift in shopping behaviour is not particularly surprising for retailers but it does present a unique marketing challenge.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2024

The Must ShopTV program uses AI technology from KERV Interactive to identify objects in a scene and find similar items available for sale at retail partners or on NBCU’s own third-party marketplace, NBCUniversal Checkout. These offerings are presented to viewers throughout the show in the form of QR-enabled shoppable ads.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2022

After two years of quarantining, it’s no wonder consumers are now expert digital shoppers. In fact, 55 per cent of AU consumers are shopping online more frequently than before the pandemic. Consumers still go through stages of awareness, consideration and purchase – they just take matters into their own hands along the way.

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