Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

However, retail marketers often lack the data they need to develop and execute more empathetic messaging. This data deficit makes it difficult for marketing to keep pace with a rapidly changing environment. Last year the top priority was engaging customers in real time. The use of AI by marketers globally has increased by 186%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2024

This capability enables retailers to understand their current operations, anticipate future trends and adapt strategies accordingly, ensuring they remain agile and responsive to the ever-changing market demands. Furthermore, understanding customer interaction with merchandise helps tailor personalized marketing strategies.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 28, 2022

Retail employees are increasingly stretched, whether it’s customer data at their fingertips to personalize the experience or tools to manage new forms of payment such as curbside pickup. And workforce engagement has become paramount to retaining frontline associates in a tight labor market. Task Management.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

“Generative AI has only been publicly available as a friendly user interface since November 2022, and it’s already being embedded in retail operations such as customer service, marketing and even new shopping experiences,” said Michelle Grant, Director, Strategy and Insights for Retail at Salesforce in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gen AI, with its vast potential for enhancing efficiency and personalizing customer experiences, also comes with ethical considerations. The role of such a committee — consisting of individuals from different departments and backgrounds — extends from supply chain management to customer interaction.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

The most effective way to strengthen the customer experience is to elicit feedback. Yet, since customers are often in a rush, it can be challenging to gather valuable feedback. The question can inquire about customer actions, brand preferences, loyalty program participation, pricing or other facets of the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The move comes as the standalone ecommerce entity seeks to continue its digital growth and evolve the customer experience. Mares joins Saks Off 5th with more than 20 years of retail experience, most recently as Head of Ecommerce and Omnichannel for DTC brand Untuckit.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With 10 stores in Palermo, P&V sought to expand into the UK market, showcasing and celebrating the culture of Italy and Sicily through its food and wine produce. It also has delivered labour hours savings, ensuring store associates can focus time on serving customers or tasks that improve customer experiences in-store.

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V Count

APRIL 1, 2021

The most challenging part is converting these visitors into buying customers, not just one-time customers, but regulars as well. Statistics show that providing an excellent customer experience is the key to increasing a business’s conversion rate. Are customers getting clogged up in some sections?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Over three -plus years, I have had the honor of speaking with industry pros who have rich backgrounds in tech, marketing and advertising, operations, finance and so much more. The Retail Remix podcast was developed to feature the founders, executives and practitioners shaping retail’s future. Let’s begin the countdown… 5.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

The survey also found that less than 13% of retail organizations are investing in technology to tackle these challenges, instead remaining focused on short-term fixes like increasing prices and running marketing campaigns. Those same cameras and sensors also are at the heart of the grab-and-go checkout system featured in Amazon Go stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2021

Persaud, who has held the role of EVP, Retail since February 2020 , will now be responsible for orchestrating new in-store experiences and operations processes under the retailer’s RxEvolution strategy. During the pandemic, he managed the development of protocols designed to enhance safety for shoppers and associates.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

According to Grand View Research , the global IoT retail market was valued at $42.38 The statistics show that more and more retail businesses are implementing IoT solutions to explore new ways of connecting with customers, boost sales and streamline business operations. Inventory management. from 2023 to 2030.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

Some, like Target, are expanding their footprint with larger stores, while others, such as Sprouts Farmers Market, are doubling down on the small format. As retailers diversify their real estate portfolios to adapt to changing consumer demands, managing in-store brand experiences across various formats becomes increasingly challenging.

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Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The setting is Francisco Market, a fictitious marketplace that illustrates Cisco’s use cases and solutions in retail. The Customer Experience. Outside the market. Anne pulls into the parking lot and receives a message from Francisco Market offering her a free cup of premium roast coffee. Entering the market.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To manage the rapid jump in demand, the retailer created a new position and leaned into its partnership with Oracle to bring BOPIS, delivery and omnichannel capabilities up to speed in a hurry. The effort paid off, and ABC is continuing to refine its efforts amid positive customer response to its initial ecommerce pivot.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2023

Walmart has opened an in-store Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) at Store 100 in its home town of Bentonville, Ark. This new order fulfillment system is truly game-changing,” said Ryan Simpson, Store Manager at Store 100 in a statement. Like the retailer’s first MFC , which opened in 2019 in Salem, N.H.,

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2024

For the most part, retailers have deployed AI to tackle low-hanging fruit such as automated customer service chatbots, personalized content for one-to-one marketing campaigns and improved store and inventory analytics. That will happen this year. Those early use cases make sense because they deliver immediate results.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

[We are looking at ways to] reduce their work behind the curtain and get them in the front of the store, working with the customer to make their processes easier, because that’s also going to improve the customer experience.” AI can speed up marketing, merchandising and product development.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If a pattern of shrink emerges that correlates to specific employee schedules or time spent in stock rooms, store management should investigate further. Even outside the store, these devices can have significant utility — especially when integrated with other systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Let’s face it, the convenience of walking into the store, quickly selecting the item, instantly purchasing it and heading home is still a very popular value proposition for consumers. With this newfound confidence returning to physical store sales, it’s essential that the customer experience is second to none.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2024

The Save Mart Companies is building on its partnership with Instacart by implementing several in-store solutions in nearly all 200 Save Mart, FoodMaxx and Lucky locations. FoodStorm , Instacart’s order management system, is designed to help streamline food service, perimeter offerings and catering operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

The retailer already has opened similar pro-focused hubs across the country and expects to have 17 top pro markets equipped with new capabilities by the end of this year. Over the last several years, we have been investing to deliver a faster, more convenient, differentiated experience for our pros.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Brand marketing teams will now be able reach customers via Samsung Connected TVs, Direct Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising and now, in-store displays. Hy-Vee is implementing Samsung Ads to support its retail media strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They’re likely asking questions of their marketing and sales team concerning performance and outputs. Or a retailer could want to strongly emphasize high-quality customer service based on recent, and repetitive, negative customer experiences in select stores. within minutes.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 20, 2022

Simonsen joined Dollar General in 2013, and has held roles in store operations, procurement, pricing, business analytics and merchandising planning. Mary Beth Hawthorne has joined Dollar General as vice president of store operations for the Northeast region.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Canseco’s Market , Harps Foods and Price Chopper have joined the 600+ retail banners using Instacart Storefront to support their ecommerce sites. The solution features built-in catalog services and automated marketing campaigns as well as flexible fulfillment solutions that allow retailers to choose the model that works best for their stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

By programming your displays to showcase user-generated content, like brand mentions or customer reviews, you tap into a stream of authenticity and relevance. This reflects real-life customer experiences with your products and encourages others to engage with your brand on social media platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

For supply chain leaders, this new reality means they have to take a more customer-centric approach to the discipline, working closely with internal experts (customer experience, marketing, sales, store operations) and recognize that they are no longer lurking backstage — they’re now the stars of the customer-facing show.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Results from Retail TouchPoints’ 2023 Store Operations Survey indicate that hiring and retaining associates, at 70% , and high employee turnover rates, at 67% , are their top challenges. Put managers front and center. That is why Brown believes managers also should provide ongoing recognition and positive feedback.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Boosting Sales and Loyalty with Easy Access to Special Offers In the past, connecting with consumers felt like a one-way relationship — brands and retailers push out marketing messages and hope to see results in return. Tara Robertson is the Chief Marketing Officer at Bitly.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As the company’s chief merchant, he has been responsible for all store and online merchandising departments, merchandising strategy, services and vendor management, marketing and in-store environment. The home improvement retailer also announced additional senior leadership promotions.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

The company provides end-to-end support, from store design and development to store operations, technology and performance data and insights. Brand leaders and operators can access Leap’s network of stores and select those that best meet their needs. San Francisco; Boston; Columbus, Ohio; Greenwich, Conn.;

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The stress of the pandemic sparked a surge in the wine, beer and spirits market: a 2020 RAND Corporation study found that alcohol consumption among adults 30 and older increased by 14%. By the end of 2024, IWSR predicts that the NA spirit, wine and beer market will grow another 31%. Sales of these products reached $3.1

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. We’re now battle-tested.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2023

Sweaty Betty’s use of performance and personalization APIs from Salesforce allowed the retailer to “customize pricing and promotions to different shopper groups” depending on the actions they took, said Igor Faletski, VP of Product Management at Salesforce. View the session on demand. View the session on demand.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As we edge closer to 2024, this phygital wave is being propelled by a raft of emerging technologies that promise to redefine the contours of retail operations, marketing strategies and customer engagement paradigms. This is especially crucial in managing seasonal or event-driven merchandise.

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