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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

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. Those same cameras and sensors also are at the heart of the grab-and-go checkout system featured in Amazon Go stores.

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Facial Recognition: Will Consumers Welcome the Technology?

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Security and Loss Prevention. In retail, facial recognition can be leveraged by loss prevention teams to monitor shoppers for possible criminal behavior. Facial recognition can be deployed via security cameras, but it can also be installed in self-checkout registers, ATMs, kiosks, and other individual-use technologies.

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Retail x Fintech: The Importance of Security in Retail’s Adoption of BOPIS and Payment Installment Plans

Retail TouchPoints

This enables consumers to turn their mobile phone into a payment tool at a kiosk, or easily choose a card when completing a transaction on their favorite retail site. This helps online retailers capitalize on the added benefits of reduced cart abandonment and customer frustration during checkout that impacts brand loyalty.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

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But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. In California, Amazon-owned Whole Foods stores launched palm-scanning technology at checkout. Happy New Year. INFLATION ON. YOUR MIND. OF YOUR HANDS.