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Despite Recent Bad Press, Self-Checkout is Here to Stay. Here’s Why.

Retail TouchPoints

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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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

Some cases in point include: In 2013, Target experienced a data breach where hackers accessed their customer credit card information by exploiting a weakness in the HVAC system’s network connection.

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Fast Track to a Frictionless Future

Retail TouchPoints

From contactless payment to fully automated checkout, innovations showed promise for streamlining and improving the customer experience. There’s no question there’s more public attention on frictionless innovation, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a rapid, or wholesale, adoption of the technology.

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Cross-Channel Home Décor Retailing: 5 Take Away Lessons from The Game Changers

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans.

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13 Retail Marketing Tips For Small Businesses In 2023

Retail Minded

Develop an Omnichannel Digital Sales Strategy Put simply, an omnichannel sales strategy means you sell wherever your customers buy. Optimize Your Point-of-Sale Display and Retail Space It should be quick and easy for your customers to find your POS for checkout.

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6 POS Software Performance Metric Thrift Stores Must Track

I Vend

Sales Optimization – the competitive nature of the electronics retail market and the rising price of products at wholesale (driven by global supply chain restrictions and geopolitical events) means tight margins, so streamlining retail operations to drive down cost is a priority.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 271 – Amazon Q2 2021 Recap

Retail Geek

In-store pickup was was much more prominent with like a dedicated area for for Bo p**s pickups in the front of the store you could do self checkout with scan and go using the mobile app and there was a lot of. They all have mobile point-of-sale all the sales associates have mobile point-of-sale systems but like.