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Wireless 5G Revolutionizing Retail

Retail TouchPoints

5G is expected to be a powerful catalyst to disrupt retail operations, from optimizing warehouses and supply chain management to transforming the in-store customer experience through personalization and product engagement. 5G can Drive Consumer Engagement.

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For the pandemic-hit fashion industry, the future is digital

Inside Retail

An eWallet integration can convert a customer with one click, compared to 22 on average for a traditional checkout process – but the increased ease of eWallet checkout comes with an enrollment system that is potentially more vulnerable to fraudsters.

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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. This includes the POS, which is powered by Manhattan’s order management system.

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Trending The Rules: Top Retail Trends Are Trending At An Unprecedented Rate

Retail TouchPoints

Whether click-to-pay for e-Commerce or contactless payments for traditional commerce, efforts to improve online and offline checkout experiences did not originate with COVID-19. The ability to meet such fluctuations requires close retailer-supplier collaboration, through controlled testing on data associated with supply chain management.

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Australia’s supply chains should never look the same again

Inside Retail

This is particularly true for retail supply-chain management. What might be lost on impulse purchases in checkout queues will be more than regained in the lifetime customer value linked to an enhanced brand experience, and the reduced supply-chain costs stemming from more detailed and accurate demand forecasting.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

Lotus’s existing malls are configured in a manner that allows space to be leased within the hypermarket box itself (for example, along a straight line beyond the checkouts at the front of the store) and around the racetrack that comprises the main mall.

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From smart mirrors to in-car shopping: the tech shaping retail’s future

Inside Retail

This can be seen by the adoption of QR codes – the use of which accelerated amid Covid-19 restrictions – self checkout in supermarkets and autonomous mobile robots, which are being utilised by major retailers for (among other things) logistical, supply chain and other inventory management tasks.

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