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Why Secure, Reliable Connectivity is Mission-Critical for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Retail businesses are no longer self-enclosed entities where everything revolves around a checkout and some inventory management software. Key Retail Challenges Supply chain disruptions have created significant hurdles for retailers, affecting inventory availability and consumer demand.

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RFID Technology: Enhancing Retail Efficiency While Protecting Consumer Data

Retail TouchPoints

RFID uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects, offering retailers precise control over inventory and enabling real-time data analytics to enhance operational efficiency. Technologies such as frictionless checkout systems or ‘Just Walk Out technology’ take a different approach.

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The Future of In-Store Tech: How Digital Innovation is Shaping Retail

Retail Focus

With advancements like AI-driven personalization and checkout-free shopping, the future of in-store technology is poised to completely revolutionize the way we shop. Contactless and Frictionless Payments Long checkout lines have been a longstanding frustration for shoppers.

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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

They are at the cusp of all things digital, which drives us on everything, from payment options to search — and ultimately, from a merchandising platform standpoint. We also offer a dropship program, all driven through the platform. It manages our BOPIS component. For our customers it’s all about breadth.”

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Fast Retailing CIO talks RFID, self-checkout and continuous improvement

Inside Retail

What does a retailer do when it has developed a self-checkout system broadly considered in the industry as the best in the world? Like I expect self checkout to be hell and it was magic.” “It To improve the current self-checkout system, we need to keep evolving our RFID platform.” We look at things holistically.

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Retailers Need to be Smarter with Their Smart Store Implementations

Retail TouchPoints

Starting in the late 1980s with the introduction of self-checkout kiosks and progressing to today’s smart RFID tags and even fully automated storefronts, retail leaders have slowly but surely embraced digital in-store enhancements. Retailers across segments have been expanding their smart store ambitions for decades.

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Is unified commerce the new holy grail?

Inside Retail

Unified commerce is the new holy grail for retailers, promising previously unheard-of levels of customer insights and control over all elements of sales and inventory management. it operates in silos and unconnected platforms. No more lines at checkouts. But what does that mean in practice for customers?

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