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AI Isn’t Going Anywhere: How Retailers Plan to Deploy the Tech in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Among the current top use cases for AI in retail are: Store analytics and insights; Personalized customer recommendations; Adaptive advertising, promotions and pricing; Stockout and inventory management; and Conversational AI. But many of these tasks may just represent the low-hanging AI fruit.

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Sensormatic Solutions Introduces Computer Vision Platform

Retail TouchPoints

The new offering is designed to help deploy a variety of analytics that provide real-time insights on retail-specific use cases related to shopper behavior, loss prevention, safety and security, inventory, shopper demographics and other data.

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During the Holidays, Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Feel the Impact of Retail Crime

Retail TouchPoints

Unfortunately, while larger stores often have security measures like loss prevention personnel, anti-theft sensors and other helpful solutions, those measures usually aren’t financially feasible for small and mid-sized businesses.

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Different Things to Consider Outsourcing in Your Retail Business (and Why)

Retail Focus

Social Media Management Outsourcing social media management to experts allows you to leverage various platforms to engage with customers, build brand loyalty, and promote your products effectively. Security and Loss Prevention Ensuring the security of your retail store and merchandise is paramount.

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Holiday Store Experience Survey: Consumers Prioritize Safety Over Immersive Shopper Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

In pursuit of both goals, focusing on connected, data-driven technologies that can help meet high consumer expectations and support a safe and comfortable environment will help retailers not only enhance their customersexperience, but also effectively deliver unified commerce services including BOPIS and curbside pickup.

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10 Ways to Improve the Customer Experience in Retail

Indigo 9 Digital

By Tricia McKinnon For as much as we hear the words “the customer experience” the experience we have with many retailers often feels less than ideal. In defence of the retail industry delighting customers is not an easy thing to do. Nordstrom is making a bet that services are key to a great customer experience.

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Facilities Management CEO: ‘Cleanliness Will Be Looked At In An Entirely Different Lens’

Retail TouchPoints

It’s long been a retail “business basic” to keep stores clean, both for purposes of hygiene and to create a positive customer experience. Some stores were literally in flames, and there were loss prevention issues at others. Some stores were left with nothing but the walls.