Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

Louis Schnucks stores this fall, with a broader rollout planned for later this year. The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St. Select Caper Carts will include a bottom rack for heavy and bulky items.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

[Update from 3/6/2024] Over the next decade, Target plans to build more than 300 new stores and upgrade the vast majority of its brick-and-mortar fleet, with projects ranging from full remodels to adding Ulta Beauty locations, upgrading fixtures and supporting same-day services.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

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. That could include customized digital signage and instant discount offers based on your purchase history.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the first usage of Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology by a non-Amazon international retailer, Sainsbury’s has deployed the cashierless solution in its Holborn Circus convenience store. Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Preparing Internal Operations for Smart Stores The importance of operational preparedness is especially true for grocers implementing emerging technologies such as autonomous checkout, also referred to as seamless checkout. You need to prepare both physically and mentally to run the full distance.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Check out the Retail Strategy & Planning Series on-demand. Offering excellent customer service is a business basic at any time of the year, but it’s particularly vital during the holiday season. Even simple requests for feedback get you top-of-mind with that customer.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

In today’s challenging business landscape, where profit margins are shrinking, supply chains are slow and uncertain, labor shortages are prevalent and inflation is a concern, it is crucial for retailers and brands to differentiate between understanding customer habits and fostering customer loyalty in order to succeed.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Then the next step is to go beyond that to say you also plan on empowering consumers to be able to live those promises as well, whether that’s inclusivity, sustainability or giving back to the community. For instance, it is much easier for operations to establish and reach success in one facet of the store.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2023

Current plans reportedly call for one Bloomie’s in Seattle and four Market by Macy’s in unannounced markets, according to CNBC. CEO Jeff Gennette told the media outlet that 2023 will be a pivotal test period for the off-mall strategy, and that the retailer will decide on its further expansion plans by the end of the year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Casper has a “Nap Appointment” experience you book and pay to test drive the mattress you’re considering — pajamas, sleeping bags and snacks included. Self-Checkout/Roaming Checkout. Versions of self-checkout are already in play for grocery, big box and a variety of other stores, mostly to reduce wait times at registers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Non-staff members can use credit cards, mobile wallets, QR codes or the Amazon One palm payment system to enter and shop at the checkout-free stores. The company also has been working with campus card providers like CBORD, Transact and Grubhub to allow students to use their meal plans to make purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Optimizing Customer Journeys Contactless technologies such as RFID and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications can dramatically improve inventory accuracy, a key element of optimizing customer journeys: “Most retailers are losing as many as 8.2

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Autonomous convenience store retailer Wundermart is expanding its operations, with plans to open more than 10,000 checkout-free stores in a partnership with contactless checkout company AiFi.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2023

Customers can then support the needs of their local school by rounding up their purchase total and donating the change at checkout, or by purchasing items on a school’s Spark Good Registry.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

Walmart Canada is planning a $3.5 Today’s significant investment will position us for future growth and make Walmart Canada even better for our associates and our customers,” said Horacio Barbeito, President and CEO of Walmart Canada in a statement. “We More than 150 of Walmart Canada’s 408 stores are targeted for renovation.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2023

In fact, 74% of associates’ time is on non-checkout functions. But “retailers are not giving them the tools or scheduling [needed] to perform these non-checkout activities,” Garf explained. 17% of holiday gift sales this season will be resale,” said Garf. 17% of holiday gift sales this season will be resale,” said Garf.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Shoppers are returning to stores, again. In the ChaseDesign Q1 Shopper Sentiment Survey, 85% of people said, “I plan to shop in physical stores more in 2022 than last year.” This drove the 18% sales growth last year in brick-and-mortar stores, while ecommerce sales grew 14%. Checkout is moving to frictionless.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

At the flagship five-day retail event, Zebra will explain how its visionary framework, The Modern Store by Zebra is set to help retailers solve their most pressing store operations challenges. The Modern Store Demo will be available to view every hour at the Zebra booth. During a workshop on Sunday 26 Feb at 14.20

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2020

In an exclusive interview with Retail TouchPoints , Roehm explained how the 850+ -store party supply chain “jumpstarted plans that were already in the business roadmap,” but were not scheduled to kick off for at least a year or two. Today the chain is providing curbside pickup at 100% of its stores and same-day delivery at 90%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

When the pandemic took hold, Seattle-area Town & Country Markets (T&C) went to work ensuring their customers still felt safe and well-cared-for. As 2020 came to a close, the company wanted to confirm that the changes made (and those being planned) set them up for success in 2021 and beyond. Planning for Improvement.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2023

In fact, Retail TouchPoints’ annual Store Design & Experience Survey found that 78% of retailers have either already implemented or plan to implement digital signage in stores over the next 24 months. He identified a few basic but important data points: “Customers at checkout spend this amount of time.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2021

Retailers sometimes move at a near-glacial pace, planning out huge builds with extreme precision — and sometimes years in advance. This isn’t to say that planning should fall by the wayside. But any plan going forward will need to include recalibration of the shopping experience. Find alignment with marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

The Groceries from Walmart service is currently available on the Yahoo Mail iOS app and desktop, with plans to add Android service later in 2020. Last year, Yahoo Mail introduced its Grocery View app, which shows users deals available at local grocery stores and allows them to save these deals to their shopping lists.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s now available on-demand , which makes this a good time to issue a spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the episode yet but plan to, don’t read any further until you have. As Leite shares at the end of the episode, she plans to triple the company’s revenue over the next five years. The episode was shot in early 2021 and aired on Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2024

This is the second part of our two-part series, “From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we went beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. But Jenkins is the first to admit that JWO-style tech won’t be a fit for every retail situation.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 2, 2023

. — Walmart has grown its retail media business, Walmart Connect, by offering advertisers the ability to reach consumers when they are searching for products on the retailer’s website as well as via thousands of digital televisions and point-of-purchase screens in its physical stores. TV Wall & Self-checkout ads.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

While the last years fueled massive improvements in researching, browsing, selecting, purchasing, returning and/or exchanging on mobile devices, tablets and desktops, the current transformation brings more intelligence and continuity to customer experiences with retailers, where the store is a fundamental part of the process. .

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Address the self-checkout issue: Staffing constraints have made self-checkouts a popular fixture in stores of all sizes. Creating a single point of entry and exit for the self-check area — and staffing it with a customer service monitor — tells potential thieves they are being watched.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

RFID is also being extended for item-level identification as part of future-forward innovation plans, such as the adoption of blockchain for increased transparency. Retail companies committed to improving the customer experience have realized they need to stop relying on inventory buffers to ensure items are in stock when they need them.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2020

It’s not enough to give a tracking number: customers want to watch their product’s progression to their front door. It’s not enough to give a customer service phone number: customers want to speak to an agent now via chat. Tractor Supply offers three ways to get them: curbside pickup, same-day delivery or in-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

“We set up an emergency task force that made sure we had the cleaning procedures, signage and checklists to keep our stores safe,” Martin-Consuegra said. One aspect of that project is to support contactless mobile payments and self-checkout. and Canada. Because of the pandemic, the launch is now slated for 2021.

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