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Solving the Shopping Mall ‘Identity Crisis’ with Community Data and Careful Curation

Retail TouchPoints

Malls were once the nucleus of “shopping culture.” But many shopping malls have endured an identity crisis. The key is to think beyond direct brand alignment within a shopping mall or center. Librarians were the age-old, quite static and inflexible owners that collected rent, rented shops and cleaned spaces,” Ibrahim explained.

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Eyebuydirect Establishes First Physical Location in California’s Orange County

Retail TouchPoints

Eyebuydirect has made its first foray into physical-world retailing with a 140-square-foot kiosk featuring a pared-down assortment of 400 pairs of glasses. The branded showcase, located at the Shops at Mission Viejo in Orange County, Calif., will have dedicated store associates on hand to provide customers with personalized assistance.

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

Retail TouchPoints

The coronavirus pandemic has pulled retailers in a number of different directions as they react to shifting shopping trends and new expectations generated by the explosion in ecommerce shoppers. However, this creates a new challenge in maintaining an optimal customer experience, particularly in touch-sensitive retailing segments like grocery.

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How Ikea Australia plans to champion affordability and the shopping experience

Inside Retail

These actions ensure our co-workers can remain focused on ‘value-add’ engagements for customers. For fulfilment, we are prioritising automation and artificial intelligence, building ‘demand sensing’ into our forecasting tools, and leveraging machine-based learning to forecast needs and improve stock integrity.

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Can Self-Service Kiosks Offer Support In Today’s Retail Conditions?

Frank Mayer

While retail stores strategize short-term goals to meet health regulations, maintain stocked shelves, and keep doors open, many are also considering the impact a changed customer mindset will have on today’s brick-and-mortar shopping. More than half surveyed expected their shopping habits to return to normal by next summer.

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How Retail Fixturing Can Turn the Average Shopping Trip Into an Experiential Event

Retail TouchPoints

They want on-brand experiences from the moment they walk through the doors. Can retail fixturing fulfill this need? In the brick-and-mortar space, fixturing offers a unique chance to work more closely with brands and elevate the retail experience for consumers. Microsoft was quick to follow Apple’s model.

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

Optimizing Customer Journeys Contactless technologies such as RFID and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications can dramatically improve inventory accuracy, a key element of optimizing customer journeys: “Most retailers are losing as many as 8.2