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Sensormatic Debuts Loss Prevention Labels Designed for Metal Products

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Additionally, Sensormatic has expanded its magnetic InFuzion hard tag family, including an ink version for visual deterrence and a wide-gap version for thicker items and footwear, both with integrated pin design to reduce tagging and checkout times as well as self-checkout integration capabilities.

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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

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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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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

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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.

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Keeping Stores Safe Amid the Autonomous Retail Revolution

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Autonomous retail technology is on the rise, with innovations like Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology already leapfrogging past yesterday’s self-checkout solutions. Still, some retailers remain reluctant to rely too heavily on autonomous technology, fearing the potential dangers associated with leaving a store “unguarded.”

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Facilities Management CEO: ‘Cleanliness Will Be Looked At In An Entirely Different Lens’

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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.

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

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Address the self-checkout issue: Staffing constraints have made self-checkouts a popular fixture in stores of all sizes. Throughout his retail career, loss prevention remained a focus. While they solve one issue, they create a few more when it comes to theft.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

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Adopting BOPIS can be challenging so we’ll explain how you can successfully merge your online and physical store operations. BOPIS, meaning Buy Online, Pickup In-Store, is an order fulfillment option that helps retailers connect their e-commerce channels with their brick-and-mortar storefronts. What is BOPIS?