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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

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. For example, on shopping channels with multiple distributors, sellers may be deprioritized on the site for overselling or shipping incorrect items.

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Grocery Trend Report: Upgrading Digital Shopping to Support ‘Power Users’ and Appealing to Ethno-National Identities

Retail TouchPoints

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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How Amazon is fending off competition by offering everyday essentials

Inside Retail

Amazon’s push to offer more everyday essentials like toothpaste is hurting its average selling prices, but it is also a guard against rivals such as Temu and Shein who offer rock-bottom prices on goods they ship from China. Amazon is also facing competition from rivals at home.

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How to Make Sense of the Complex Modern Grocery Retail Landscape 

Retail TouchPoints

While this may sound positive for supermarkets, it also brings new challenges. First, supermarkets must determine exactly how much inventory to order so as not to waste food or purchase insufficient supplies. Supermarket coffee bars, for example, are known to generate a more relaxed shopping environment.

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NRF Day 3: Fish with QR codes, cookies at Hermes. Tales from the main stage

Inside Retail

In a supermarket in southern China, live fish swim around in a glass tank bearing a QR code for customers to scan for information about where the fish is from and details of provenance and sustainability in its farming or capture. All of the self checkouts, all of the shelf edges, electronic shelf labels, everything is digital.

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Superette cannabis dispensary in Toronto resembles a retro grocery store

Dezeen

The shop is located within a complex made from shipping containers. The retailer's latest shop is located at Stackt Market, a shopping complex made of shipping containers in downtown Toronto. The retailer's latest shop is located at Stackt Market, a shopping complex made of shipping containers in downtown Toronto.

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Groceries delivered in 60 minutes: it’s on the cards but just not yet

Inside Retail

This week, Australian supermarket giant Coles appealed to that love by announcing a pick-and-collect service that takes less than 60 minutes , shaving 30 minutes off its existing promise. They don’t want to spend time going around shelves looking for products or queuing at the checkout. You may not be there to receive the order.