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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Then, last year, in-store sales grew faster than online sales, while ecommerce stocks took a big hit. Retailers cited rising costs, declining consumer spending and supply chain volatility as their top concerns. There’s also the matter of securing the computer hardware that runs the store operations.

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Is the Retail Crime Wave a Tsunami or a Ripple?

Retail TouchPoints

And there was certainly some reality to it: the Retail TouchPoints 2023 Store Operations Benchmark Survey of retailers themselves revealed that “reducing theft/shrink” was a top store-level workforce management challenge for 46% of respondents, second only to the 53% citing employee training and empowerment.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?