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Smart shopping carts, low-code and robots: Welcome to retail tech in 2023

Inside Retail

With new applications on the horizon, AI is set to play an ever growing role in improving not only customer experience, but also store efficiency and operations. Whether it’s a small boutique or a major department store chain, all businesses can harness the potential of this powerful technology.

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Lifestyle products and services: How to harness Asia’s silver economy

Inside Retail

As populations age and start to fall, there is tremendous interest in providing goods and services to the elderly. This means the elderly in Singapore have, and will have, a greater capacity and willingness to spend on goods and services for themselves and their loved ones. Retailers don’t want to be left behind.

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What the proposed buy now, pay later regulations mean for Aussie retail

Inside Retail

Many retailers have become accustomed to using Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services to capture customer spend, with the option being particularly popular among younger Australians who are bearing the brunt of cost of living pressures. Younger Australians are especially at-risk, as they have embraced the service en-masse.

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How MDM Helps Retailers Protect the Bottom Line

Retail TouchPoints

First stop — the farmers market to pick up ingredients for a dinner party you are hosting. Next stop — your favorite department store to pick out an outfit for a work trip later in the week. To save time and money, retailers should consider a comprehensive device management offering that combines several services.

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How Taking Shape is leveraging backend efficiency gains to grow overseas

Inside Retail

It is also exploring new in-store fulfilment options in Australia, and continuing to add new payment methods, which customers have been clamouring for. Whereas store staff may have previously seen e-commerce as their competition, they now see it as a complementary sales channel. The US market could be next on the list.

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How retailers are racing to meet the needs of older online shoppers

Inside Retail

They want to be marketed to with honesty and respect for who they are with pictures they can relate to,” Rebecca Wilson, the founder and CEO of Starts at 60, told Inside Retail. Many marketers think they need to use ‘aspirational images’ but this generation actually wants to see relatable, not aspirational marketing,” she said.

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How Amazon more than tripled its profits in Q1

Inside Retail

It’s not surprising that Amazon has done really well,” Jason Pallant, a senior lecturer in marketing at Swinburne Business School, told Inside Retail. “Many domestic retailers were not strong on digital, especially department stores which offer similar home product ranges,” she told Inside Retail. . “To