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How American Eagle, Kroger and Snap are Reinventing Customer Experiences for a COVID Age

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However, this creates a new challenge in maintaining an optimal customer experience, particularly in touch-sensitive retailing segments like grocery. One way Kroger has simultaneously improved the customer experience and safety is through an emphasis on friction-reducing technologies.

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Matching Tech to New In-Store Experiences: 6 Steps to Success

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For example, in-store kiosks can’t support endless aisle experiences if they aren’t underpinned by real-time inventory visibility and omnichannel order management capabilities. “Do For example, one brand implemented digital screens to provide in-store styling capabilities to customers, but adoption was very low.

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What Does the Future Hold for Malls? Design Visionaries Share Their Predictions

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For example, having a heavy timber structure instead of a steel or concrete structure can allow them to tell a story about the environment to their clientele. They want to make a very visible design statement with those buildings. Agility in design is another big trend. RTP: How has the role of malls within local communities changed?

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4 Key Point-of-Sale Trends for 2024

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“One of the biggest trends of the last three years or so has been the growth of microservices to support a single transaction engine, one that supports the [store] POS, mobile POS, the website and even transactional kiosks,” said Sheldon. Part and parcel of that is headless architecture.

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New Research: Retailers Plan to ‘Invest Their Way’ Through Impending Recession

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These systems can take many forms, from associate-manned mobile POS systems to self-service kiosks and even progressive web apps that allow customers to check out themselves on their own phones. Regardless of the method, the result is the demise of the cash wrap as we know it. “If

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Considering BYOD? Count The Costs And Explore Your Options

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Software deployed on mobile or touchscreen devices is being adopted by retailers for everything from point-of-sale and clienteling solutions to endless aisle kiosks. When planning the deployment of these applications, you might be tempted to explore the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) model.