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You Can’t Spell Retail Without AI

Retail TouchPoints

AI helps grocery managers optimize staff, advising on how many employees and checkout lanes are required. It can also increase self-checkout, reducing the number of employees required to keep the store running effectively. Price Optimization is for all Retailers. For shoppers, AI helps improve the customer experience.

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Digital Is Turning Retail Into An On-Demand Model

Retail TouchPoints

To attract a new generation of shoppers, retailers are looking to redefine go-to-market strategies and reimagine the customer experience inside their physical store locations. Increasingly, consumers want to browse and buy with the ease of click, or find products faster using in-store location technologies.

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Carousell co-founder talks LuxLexicon acquisition and future of re-commerce

Inside Retail

Following the success of its ‘Certified Luxury’ and ‘Sell to Carousell’ programmes, Tan said that users voiced their desire for a wider selection of authenticated premium products, as well as the option to view large-ticket items in a physical location for added assurance. billion by 2026.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

VMS

Their job situations became shaky as retail doors closed; they were asked to do more as employee rolls thinned; inflation ate away at their earnings and salaries stayed static – often without any boost in health benefits. Starbucks workers organized at many locations in 2022. location voted in favor of starting a union.

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Kiwis ‘not served well’ by grocery duopoly, but report reactions mixed

Inside Retail

HortNZ CEO Nadine Tunley said greater transparency would enable consumers to understand better the price they pay for New Zealand-grown fruit and vegetables. Pointing out that grower returns have not increased for at least 10 years, she said retail prices and costs – labour, freight and compliance – have steadily increased. “In

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How Mwave Australia caters to high-end gamers

Inside Retail

I wouldn’t consider it a proper retail location, it’s more of a showroom for some of our higher-end products and key brands, though it gets more foot traffic than you would think. I can see a future where we take our showroom concept to more locations. IR: Can you tell me a bit about your bricks-and-mortar presence?

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