Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

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.

Payment Services 234

Payment Services Inventory Management Checkout Loss Prevention 234

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Retailers have gotten better about thinking about simple things like power accessibility or creating WiFi shadows around fixtures and things like that, but there are still far too many unintended consequences that come out of store design because they did not think through tech requirements up front.

Loss Prevention 295

Loss Prevention Visual Merchandising Sporting Goods Store Operations 295

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2020

Almond: We started to see board-up requests during the later part of the Memorial Day weekend, as well as calls for security guards, clean-ups, and in some cases store closings for the safety of the employees. Some stores were literally in flames, and there were loss prevention issues at others.

Management 167

Management Loss Prevention ATS Store Operations 167

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Address the self-checkout issue: Staffing constraints have made self-checkouts a popular fixture in stores of all sizes. Creating a single point of entry and exit for the self-check area — and staffing it with a customer service monitor — tells potential thieves they are being watched.

Payment Services 312

Payment Services Sporting Goods Inventory Management Loss Prevention 312

I Vend

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Effective inventory management leads to lower overall inventory costs, fewer lost sales due to stock-outs, and greater customer satisfaction – and ultimately more profit. Point of sale store operations – customers want fast and friction-free checkout, and retailers need to know what has been sold.

Shrinkage 87

Shrinkage Inventory Management Store Layout Checkout 87