Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Evolving Threat Landscape Retailers increasingly rely on digital platforms for sales, inventory management and customer engagement. 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.

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Star Miconics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This groundbreaking change allows licensed cannabis cultivators and retailers to connect directly with consumers in a market-style setting, creating a new avenue for cannabis sales. But what does it mean for your cannabis business regarding the necessary point-of-sale (POS) hardware for selling at farmers markets?

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Nvidia

JANUARY 13, 2022

and “What happens to my margins if Susie Consumer purchases three of the same dresses online and returns two?”. AiFi, AWM and Trigo’s autonomous shopping platforms, each shown at NRF, provide a seamless store checkout process. Customers can walk into a store, grab the items they want and pay with their mobile phone on their way out.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2022

The automation of laborious and manual tasks such as inventory management through the development of new technologies in the Data Lab allows our Decathlon teammates to do what they find most meaningful – fostering relationships with customers.

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I Vend

JANUARY 11, 2024

January is the season of returns – the rate at which shoppers bring back goods in the post-holiday returns period jumps by almost 9% * compared to the rest of the year. iVend helps retailers iVend helps retailers optimise their post-holiday returns processing. Read how the best POS system supports efficient returns handling.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

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. Buy online, return in-store. They should be in all retailers’ playbooks. For the customer, this is convenient and saves time.

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Storis

JUNE 25, 2019

A customer wanted to buy a dresser, so I called one of the warehouse employees to bring the piece up to the Point of Sale. We were required to have the piece at checkout, even though it often returned to the warehouse until the customer could come to pick it up. It had been a normal situation.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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.

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I Vend

JANUARY 17, 2024

iVend helps retailers iVend helps retailers optimise their post-holiday returns processing. Read how the best POS system supports efficient returns handling. Then there’s the environmental impact of returns: many returned items are not resold, and are instead sent to landfill or incinerated.

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I Vend

MAY 8, 2024

Here’s some of the key ways that an integrated POS systems for wine and liquor can underpin growth strategies for wine and liquor stores: POS – integrated POS software for wine and liquor stores helps with efficiency at the checkout, enhancing the customer experience and streamlining operations in wine and liquor stores.

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I Vend

JULY 27, 2021

Frictionless checkout – is it the new omnichannel? Now, more than 10 years on, why do I say that frictionless checkout is the ‘new omnichannel’? Well, from my discussions with retailers, I can see that there has been a similar lightbulb realisation about frictionless checkout. Friction matters because it restricts growth.

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I Vend

JANUARY 6, 2023

The holiday season is a time for shopping and gift giving – and the New Year is the time for…returns and product return management for retail businesses. Shoppers return goods all year of course, but the post-holiday weeks see an increase in items coming back to stores.

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I Vend

AUGUST 13, 2023

They have become ever more demanding about what they want: service, price, choice, convenience, omnichannel retail, frictionless checkout – and if they’re not satisfied, they simply go elsewhere. They expect to be able to spend loyalty points they earned online when they’re shopping in the store, and vice versa.

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I Vend

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Inventory management – ‘the right goods, in the right place, at the right time’ sums up the core of retail. So inventory management is essential. Retail technology can streamline inventory management by enabling retailers to accurately track goods from delivery to sale through to returns.

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I Vend

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Everything is focused on operational excellence to create a seamless shopping experience; helping them to find the goods they want; checkout fast and pay the way they want. The key is to ensure that you select a cloud-based point of sale platform that also has an offline option.

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I Vend

MAY 5, 2023

Retail Management Solution iVend offers a retail management solution for today’s world. Learn more about the best retail point of sale. Integrated platforms – today’s retail management solutions integrate a wide range of functions into a single platform.

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I Vend

JULY 15, 2022

Happy customers buy more, return more and tell others. Customer facing display – engaging customers at the point of sale , by presenting offers, information or a chance to interact with their loyalty program data. Customer self-service – self-checkout to reduce queues and make for smooth, easy payments.

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I Vend

MARCH 11, 2024

The best POS systems integrate loyalty with: Point of sale (POS) systems , including mobile payments and self-checkout – making it straightforward for shoppers to earn and burn points as they check out. Inventory management – to ensure that product campaigns are supported by sufficient levels of stock.

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I Vend

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

A retail point of sale system is an essential in retail. A retail point of sale system is about enabling and recording sales transactions – but it’s also so much more than that. Chosen well, a retail point of sale system can be the enabler that drives business growth and retail success.

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I Vend

APRIL 22, 2024

. • Sales Optimization – the competitive nature of the electronics retail market and the rising price of products at wholesale (driven by global supply chain restrictions and geopolitical events) means tight margins, so streamlining retail operations to drive down cost is a priority.

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I Vend

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The best POS systems integrate loyalty with: Point of sale (POS) systems , including mobile payments and self-checkout – making it straightforward for shoppers to earn and burn points as they check out. Inventory management – to ensure that product campaigns are supported by sufficient levels of stock.

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I Vend

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On the first day of Christmas, my Digital Commerce gave to me… …inventory visibility. Retailers need the ability to operate all their sales channels from a common stock pool. Flawless inventory management , no matter where goods are located helps to maximise product availability, speed up fulfilment and increase sales.

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