Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Campus foodservice leader Sodexo will open nearly 100 Food Hive markets on college campuses by 2026, beginning with the approximately 30 locations opening during the 2024-2025 academic year. The modern flow of the store, including self-checkout, will enhance efficiency and convenience for everyone.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

Amazon is continuing to expand the reach of its Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless checkout tech with a particular focus on events-based venues. Checkout-free stores powered by Just Walk Out technology provide fast, seamless and contactless transactions, which we think will resonate really well in this setting.” airports.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2024

Now, through Birdzi’s integration with ECRS’s POS software, shopper and basket information are immediately relayed from ECRS to Birdzi, allowing shoppers to easily redeem their personalized discounts and promotional offers at checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

Fortunately, the shift toward diverse checkout options and digital receipts has fostered new touch points for retailers looking to make a memorable impact. In fact, 53% of shoppers under 45 years old prefer self-checkout options , and 89% of consumers of any age like the idea of a digital receipt. Offering new engagement opportunities.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

This collaborative approach improves customers’ payment experiences and speeds up the time it takes for new products to be ready for market. The post The Digital Checkout: How Tech is Revolutionising Online Transactions appeared first on Retail Focus Magazine - Retail Design.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

What does a retailer do when it has developed a self-checkout system broadly considered in the industry as the best in the world? Like I expect self checkout to be hell and it was magic.” “It To improve the current self-checkout system, we need to keep evolving our RFID platform.” But we plan to keep on evolving the system.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

This is the first part of our two-part series, “ From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we go beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. Plus, despite all the vocal naysayers, many consumers actually like the technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

The Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP) , the retailer’s media network, is launching display ads in the Scan & Go mobile checkout experience, with the aim of reaching consumers closer to their point of decision.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

As todays brands undergo a marketing transformation, understanding and managing these emotional peaks and valleys is the key to delivering great experiences that foster lasting relationships. According to Netimperative , 85% of customers are not yet satisfied with their brands emotional marketing efforts.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

For retailers, self-checkout is something of a double-edged sword. Moreover, customers seem very receptive to self-checkout, with 73% noting that it feels much faster than a traditional cashier. Additionally, 85% of Gen Z consumers use self-checkout when available, driven largely by the convenience factor.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2024

What can grocery leaders do to recapture some of their lost market share? Conversely, intuitive and streamlined experiences especially at checkout help grocers send the signal that they recognize shoppers time is valuable. One technology solution that enriches customer experience is self-checkout.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 23, 2024

British heritage brand Denby Pottery has launched direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce capabilities into 29 European markets, in partnership with ESW , ending years of post-Brexit trading challenges. Additionally, ESW resolved Denby’s customs compliance issues, allowing it to reactivate its key Spanish market.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This explains why guest checkout is so critical for retailers these days. In a career spanning over 20 years, Bhargava has run product, strategy, go-to-market and engineering for category-creating cybersecurity startups and large enterprises.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Storefront Pro offers end-to-end control, from discovery through weekly ad integration and personalized recommendations to seamless checkout with loyalty programs and even fulfillment and customer care,” said Alice Luong, Director, Ecommerce and Retail Media at Instacart in a statement. locations in August 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Now, as new marketing and advertising formats venture further into the store, store teams must work more thoughtfully to ensure these touch points are intentionally integrated into their designs. As a result, they are collaborating with different teams and functions, especially operations ( 72% ), marketing ( 65% ) and IT ( 57% ).

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We’re seeing vision AI support across all parts of the retail business, including back of house, in-store advertising and media, store checkout and curbside pickup. Leading a cross-functional team of engineers, business developers, marketers and beyond, Yanagisawa sits below Terushi Shimizu, President and Chief Executive Officer of SSS.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Email marketing has become a cornerstone of delivering this seamless retail customer experience, acting as a direct and personalized communication channel between brands and their customers. It involves connecting the dots between various touchpoints, including online stores, physical locations, customer support, and marketing communications.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Savings are automatically applied at checkout when shoppers scan their loyalty card or enter their phone number. A QR code also is available for those preferring a touchless experience. Customers will receive a printout of the digital coupons that are loaded to their loyalty card for reference as they shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2025

Initially focused on providing an easy way for athletes (Dicks name for its customers) to learn more about products via an in-store barcode scanning feature, the app has continued to incorporate new features that remove friction from the checkout process, such as like autocomplete address suggestions.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Technologies such as frictionless checkout systems or ‘Just Walk Out technology’ take a different approach. This method allows for the automatic billing of items taken off shelves without a traditional checkout process.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The new year is here; however, the market challenges of 2022 didn’t evaporate with the turning of the calendar. The good news is that retailers can use this time of market instability to double down on their online stores. Have a simple checkout process. Simple and easy checkout processes are needed to seal the deal.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Clarks Photo credit: Clarks // Super League Limited-edition product drops and collabs are major marketing initiatives, which is why brands put a lot of time, money and brainpower into amplifying them. The Walmart API managed the entire payment process, presenting it to customers in a seamless and familiar checkout flow.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Grocery TV will now power more than 10,000 screens at Hy-Vees 400+ retail locations across the Midwest, reaching shoppers at key store touch points including the entrance, checkout, service departments, aisles and endcaps. The partnership will go live in February 2025.

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Inside Retail

MAY 13, 2025

Key insights in the report are based on a region-wide study of more than 3000 shoppers across six Asia-Pacific markets: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. The report found that across six markets, experience is everything. Checkout defines memory. Staff behaviour drives loyalty or churn.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Full-fledged fingerprinting around the internet is depreciating, and marketers and customers alike will soon notice, particularly in the retail and ecommerce space. With today’s emphasis on privacy, third-party cookie deprecation will inevitably impact your brand, marketing strategy and customers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2025

The company said the move was made in the best interests of its community, supplier network, investors, and the rapidly growing fashion rental market. Founded in 2016, Designerex allows customers to create accounts and list items for rent directly from the online checkout pages of participating brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Critical milestones in the journey are no longer confined to a traditional retailers ecommerce site or checkout cart. Airwallex data also shows that despite ever-shifting market conditions, most global consumers (54%) plan to increase their cross-border purchasing over the coming months. billion site visits in August 2024 alone.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Nike Plans to Cut $2 Billion in Costs, Layoffs Imminent as Strategy Pivot Continues (January 2, 2024) Increasing competition in the sneaker market and global macroeconomic headwinds pushed Nike to make major cost cuts, using tactics such as simplifying its product assortment and making greater use of automation and technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Called “ The Benemart ,” the grocery-inspired virtual store allows visitors to shop holiday sets and bestsellers, virtually try on products, shop with friends and play games, with a chance to win discounts at checkout. Developed in partnership with Obsess , the virtual store is available in four countries including the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

A shift toward a new dynamic for Instagram and Facebook Shops will require companies to enable in-app checkout in order to offer a Shop on both sites. with other markets to potentially follow depending on the results. via both Meta’s Commerce Manager and Shopify will only be allowed if checkout on Facebook and Instagram is enabled.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The entire global ecommerce market is expected to total $6.3 IoT is now part of the shopping experience, and retailers use it for things like automated checkout, inventory and data management and supply chain optimization. trillion by year’s end – up from $5.8 trillion in 2023.)

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its an ever-present internal conflict for many ecommerce and marketing teams that are striving to maximize both time-on-site and conversion rate metrics and its one that standing desk and office furniture manufacturer Uplift Desk has evidently addressed since implementing BigCommerce s Catalyst storefront technology.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. YDs one-page checkout also streamlines the process, removing the hassle for customers to place an order.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2025

Retail businesses are no longer self-enclosed entities where everything revolves around a checkout and some inventory management software. A clear example of this occurred when Morrisons , a major UK supermarket chain, suffered a severe IT outage that left customers stranded at checkouts.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

According to a Litmus study , every $1 invested in email marketing yields a profit of $36 —which is quite a return. Moreover, 78% of marketers say email marketing is crucial for the success of a business. Some of the reasons are hidden in the fact that email marketing is personal, customizable, and measurable.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2024

Customers using the Uber Eats app will be alerted that “autonomous vehicles may deliver your order,” and they will be given the opportunity to opt out at checkout if they prefer to have a human driver. The companies are working with a select group of merchants that include local favorites like Princess Pita, Filiberto’s and BoSa Donuts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Email marketing flows are crucial for crafting a seamless and personalised customer journey. With Klaviyo , an intelligent marketing automation platform, retailers can set up automated email flows triggered by specific customer actions, ensuring timely and relevant communication.

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