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Maximize Holiday Sales with These Essential Merchandise Store Tips

Small Biz Trends

Analyze Post-Holiday Sales Data: Review sales performance to identify trends, customer preferences, and effective marketing strategies for future planning. The holiday season is a bustling time for merchandise stores, and it’s crucial to stand out in the crowd. Use festive decorations to attract attention.

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How IoT is Transforming Digital Signage in Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Moreover, IoT-enabled digital signage is enhancing the customer experience by enabling voice-activated interactions. Consumers can inquire about sales, promotions or store layouts, and the signage will respond in real time, providing relevant information based on the IoT data collected.

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How Localization is Helping CVS Position Itself as the Modern General Store

Retail TouchPoints

The competitive landscape surrounding each store also is a critical facet of how the store will be merchandised. Stores near a hospital will feature different inventory, and different placements, in the front store than locations that have a neighboring grocery store or those near an apartment complex, for example.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

It’s almost always the first to embrace new waves of innovation, test and deploy new technologies, and integrate them into their businesses to create new, dynamic experiences to benefit customers, employees and ultimately — ROI. The retail industry holds influence above many others.

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The Waste Management Challenge of the Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

The holiday season brings a surge in shopping, both in-store and online. From mountains of packaging to returned products that may contain hazardous materials, management of returned, damaged or expired products becomes increasingly complex and voluminous during the holidays and post-holiday season.

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In-Store Retail Media: Focus on the Shopper, Not the CPM

Retail TouchPoints

The idea of the brick-and-mortar store being called the “next frontier” for retail media sounds funny to the many industry veterans who work at Mars United SM Commerce. Retail veterans like us have always viewed the physical store as a critical channel for shopper engagement.

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Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

Retail TouchPoints

JWO’s reliance on computer vision and RFID to track which items each customer has chosen makes it more feasible in smaller selling spaces, such as convenience stores , fan merchandise stores in stadiums and even hospital gift shops.