Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

Businesses and organizations across virtually all markets and niches are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) could benefit their operations. AI fuels imagination, leading to a flood of ideas of how to enhance customer experiences, automate tasks and gain an edge in the market.

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A1 Retail

JUNE 19, 2023

Mike Sponza, Music and Licensing Director at M-Cube talks to A1 Retail about the importance of getting the music right in your shop or store. It is a fundamental engagement tool which develops the brand-customer relationship. Therefore it is an integral part of the point of sale. It’s a constant process.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The rise of online shopping. But now, it has its sights on changing the world of in-store shopping. In-person shopping is enjoying a surge in popularity. Retailers have taken notice of this shift and are increasingly turning toward experiential retail to meet changing customer preferences. The most obvious impact?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2023

DCC is an optional service offered at the point of sale, allowing customers to view the cost of their purchases in their home currency. Consumers, on the other hand, should compare rates at the point of sale with those provided by their card issuer to ensure they are getting a good deal. Benefits for Retailers 1.

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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 Focus

JUNE 21, 2023

By investing in technology, bricks and mortar businesses give themselves the best possible chance to survive and even thrive during these economically turbulent times, by encouraging repeat store visits and purchases through enhanced customer experience (CX) and smarter business decisions.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The luxury market is categorised by its exclusivity, maintained through a combination of high price points, consciously limited product volumes, reputation and customer experience, amongst other factors. Phillipe created a partnership with another family-owned business, Hunt Leather, to tap into the Australian market.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Mobile point of sale is relatively new technology, but it is quickly becoming essential or retailers who want to remain competitive in an ever-increasing rapidly evolving retail environment. For starters, your sales staff won’t have to walk to the front of the store every time a customer asks about a product.

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Star Miconics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Farmers markets are a beloved tradition, offering fresh, locally sourced produce, handmade goods, and unique treats. The landscape of cannabis commerce in New York is transforming with the recent approval of cannabis farmers markets by state regulators. So, here’s what cannabis vendors need for the ideal farmers market POS: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2024

But while AI is already delivering big changes to retailers’ bottom lines, it hasn’t yet truly transformed the way consumers shop. Retailers come to us to brainstorm and create AI-enabled products and services that won’t just deliver new revenue and reduce costs, but instead will fully transform the customer experience.

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365 Retail

MAY 19, 2021

Among many others, one thing we have missed over the past months is without a doubt the real-life shopping experience. Shopping online is great, but it is nothing like strolling through the aisles of your favourite store, physically touching the items or discovering new trends first-hand.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2024

The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience. Last year, it implemented several self-checkout stations for its market concessions.

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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. It may not be particularly glamorous to admit, but the future of shopping is based on data.

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Star Miconics

JANUARY 26, 2023

But while those things are still in the realm of science fiction, AI has become increasingly engrained in the modern technology we now use every day, from our smartphones to our point-of-sale (POS) systems. On top of that, the companies that use AI for marketing and other purposes consistently outperform those that do not.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

L’Oréal Group will purchase the Aēsop beauty brand from Natura &Co , parent company of Avon and The Body Shop , in a transaction that values Aēsop at $2.52 As recently as last week, Natura &Co had been considering a sale of The Body Shop, according to CNBC , but the company has apparently decided to hold on to that brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. At Coors Field in Denver, Aramark Sports + Entertainment uses the Amazon One “age verification” capability to allow customers 21 and older to purchase alcoholic beverages with a palm scan, without the need to produce an ID card.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Walmart has unveiled a reimagined store design, with a new look and feel that focuses on a digitally enabled shopping experience. At the entrance, clean, colorful iconography and a store directory welcome customers and encourage them to download and use the Walmart app while they shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Drawing on the team’s nickname, the WooSox Market at Polar Park uses AI-powered cameras and the cloud to offer a fully autonomous retail experience, enabling fans to shop for ballpark snacks and memorabilia and then pay without scanning, waiting in line or stopping to check out.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

market — recently raising its fees for TikTok Shop sellers in the U.S. It’s being rolled out in conjunction with compatriot brands Meta and Snap and is already having an impact: Snap’s partnership with Amazon to enable in-app shopping helped to boost Snap’s share price by 7.4%. With more than 100 million U.S.

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Star Miconics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

With the holiday season just around the corner, retailers are actively preparing to make the most of the upcoming customer rush. A rising trend in this arena is the concept of holiday pop-up shops, which are becoming part of the broader movement toward temporary retail spaces.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

Located within Chadstone shopping centre, the largest shopping centre in Australia, the tweaked design comes as Vicinity Group invests in making Chadstone a renowned food destination in addition to being known as the nation’s “fashion capital.” Internally, the project involved “a huge amount” of cross-functional support.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, retailers are now facing the challenge of capturing and maintaining market share and keeping their customers loyal. This is how merchants can reap the benefits of BNPL solutions in today’s ever-competitive market. Say Farewell to Cart Abandonment, Welcome Loyal Customers.

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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. Exceptional customer experience.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We needed a solution that allowed us to centralise our task management and communications across our entire store estate, to ensure the customer experience and ‘look and feel’ of our stores was both consistent and streamlined. We have better visibility of what’s going on at the point of sale, and communication is much more fluid.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2023

Composable is not just about the architecture; it’s also about business wins, experience and agility, which are fundamental to growing in the ecommerce market today,” said Faletski. The resistance is real — people are not comfortable yet with putting their POS in the cloud,” said Dave Bruno, Director of Retail Market Insights at Aptos.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2023

Others might have just stopped in out of happenstance, doing a little window shopping for the day. According to a Retail TouchPoints survey , the industry has been exploring ways to reconfigure the physical retail space and implement digital elements into the overall shopping experience. Digital signage makes this possible.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The brand is using this growth to make strategic investments, including upgrades to its existing stores, and the launch of a new, flagship location in Highpoint Shopping Centre on 10 December. McGahan said the process was led by extensive customer insights from its customer database of over two million people. “It

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2022

First stop — the farmers market to pick up ingredients for a dinner party you are hosting. The store is quite busy, so you flag down a salesperson and they help you check out from a mobile point-of-sale (POS) system. Shopping for Effective Device Management and Security. However, device safety cannot be an afterthought.

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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

APRIL 20, 2022

The legal cannabis market was valued at $12.81 For approximately two decades, Cookies and Dr. While online platforms and communities like Instagram are the “cornerstone” of the brands’ digital footprints, Del Fante explained that each physical location presents a unique opportunity to “express our brand in a way for us to retain customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. Trend 3: Store Design Teams Become ‘Experience Teams’ When a brand decides to open a new store, the design team cannot work within its own silo. customer experience).

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What it didn’t have at that point was a streamlined, intuitive online checkout process — and that quickly became a major hindrance to the company’s DTC expansion plans. “We We Aren’t Making Our Customers Hunt and Peck’ While cart abandonment can have many causes, overly complex checkout processes are certainly a major contributor.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 16, 2023

Amperity , the leading enterprise customer data platform (CDP) for consumer brands has been selected by beauty giant Shiseido Americas Corporation as the foundation of its first-party data strategy, to help create connected and personalised digital customer experiences across all of its brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), owner of Westfield shopping centers in the U.S., The companies will jointly invest in new customer experiences, events, marketing and on-premise advertising at Westfield shopping centers across the country, with plans to take the partnership global in the coming months.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

Retailers know that customer engagement must be the focus of their marketing efforts. And it’s increasingly clear that brands that embrace financial services within the customer journey are scoring highly on engagement scores. Many customers bail at this point.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Inherent Messiness of Mobile For a growing number of consumers, mobile commerce is the new standard, particularly when it comes to Q4 holiday and gift shopping. A tremendous amount of mobile traffic and transactions are lost to broken mobile experiences — likely more today than ever before.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

After two years of pandemic-driven online shopping, many consumers are stepping back out into the world and into physical stores. This means these marketers need a truly omnichannel, flexible advertising strategy that bridges both online and offline channels as more shoppers start toggling between the two again.

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