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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. Computer vision at the edge would create more personalized shopping experiences that synchronize in-person, online and mobile interactions.

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Facial Recognition: Will Consumers Welcome the Technology?

Wiser

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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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

VMS

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.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Even before the pandemic completely upended the world economy, how consumers shopped had been changing — and mobile devices were at the forefront of that change. Then the shuttering of many stores made online shopping a necessity, while social distancing measures turned contactless payments from a convenient option to a safer alternative.