Retail TouchPoints
MAY 20, 2022
Albertsons Companies will launch cart-based smart checkout technology later this year at select supermarkets throughout the country, in partnership with Veeve Smart Carts. The carts use computer vision to identify items by extracting visual features (including barcodes) of the items placed within them, and a built-in scale calculates totals for produce.
Inside Retail
MAY 20, 2022
Australian online marketplace Click Central closed on Friday as its owners decided to redirect resources to its other online platforms. Nathan Brown, CEO of the site’s parent Global Marketplace (GMP), told Inside Retail the company wanted to refocus its resources and investment on the GrabOne marketplace platform it owns in New Zealand. Click Central was launched in June last year as a spinoff of GMP’s Click Frenzy, a deals-oriented site that continues to operate in Australia.
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Retail TouchPoints
MAY 20, 2022
Ulta Beauty is the latest retailer to launch a retail media network, aiming to tap into the growing pool of ad dollars flowing into closed-loop systems as marketers look beyond search engines and social media in preparation for a cookie-less future. Ulta’s new offering, which the retailer first announced in late 2021, is called UB Media and promises to offer brands “addressable advertising” opportunities to reach its community of 37 million Ultamate Rewards members.
Cisco Retail
MAY 20, 2022
This is the third post in a series about writing ChatOps services on top of the Webex API. In the first post , we built a Webex Bot that received message events from a group room and printed the event JSON out to the console. In the second , we added security to that Bot, adding an encrypted authentication header to Webex events, and subsequently adding a simple list of authorized users to the event handler.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Retail TouchPoints
MAY 20, 2022
According to a recent report from the Identity Theft Resource Center there was a 68% increase in data breaches in 2021 compared to 2020, awarding last year with the highest number of data breaches ever reported. Given that much of this compromised data will include email and password combinations, cybercriminals have been handed even more assets to perform Account Takeover (ATO) attacks.
Cisco Retail
MAY 20, 2022
The last two years have created a lot of pressure on us all. The pandemic has forced us to adapt to new ways of working and has presented many technological challenges, one of which is multi-cloud transformation. As we can see, these challenges are not going away soon and the need for agile adaptation is critical. Whilst most teams have adapted already, it has taken a toll on them.
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Cisco Retail
MAY 20, 2022
Getting involved in the open-source community (especially early in your career) is a smart move for many reasons. When you help others, you almost always get help in return. You can make connections that can last your entire career, helping you down the road in ways you can’t anticipate. In this article, we’ll cover more about why you should consider contributing to open source, and how to get started.
Retail TouchPoints
MAY 20, 2022
A 45-year-old family-owned luxury business might not be the kind of company one expects to be at the cutting edge of digital commerce, but thanks to President Ken Natori, the company’s second-generation leader, Natori is just that. The designer fashion brand launched its own ecommerce operation in 2008, at a time when many other high-end specialty labels were still turning up their noses at digital.
Cisco Retail
MAY 20, 2022
To get back to what was considered “normal” in the “before times,” we are once more heading for an in-person Cisco Live US event! This after a hiatus of two years of virtual events. This year the in-person event takes place in Las Vegas between June 12th and 16th and is closely followed by the online version of the event. You can find more details at [link]. .
Retail Dive
MAY 20, 2022
Consumers are turning to used goods to save money during a time of high inflation, a new report found.
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AI agents already analyze trends, draft content, and trigger actions across leading commerce platforms. Yet most organizations still rely on workflows built for human‑only teams, losing speed, margin, and customer loyalty. Humans + Agents: Rethinking Enterprise Commerce in the Age of AI Collaboration shows how to close that gap. In one concise read you’ll see where agent gains surface first, how early adopters prove ROI, and which lean controls keep innovation moving without risking data or bran
Cisco Retail
MAY 20, 2022
The Cisco Cloud Networking team and ServiceNow have a solid partnership that spans several years to deliver deep product integrations and solutions that help customers to address important service management challenges that include aligning their infrastructure to cater to critical business services, accelerating the network service delivery through approval-based workflow automation and adhering to SLAs through incident automation.
Retail Focus
MAY 20, 2022
Online shopping has revolutionised how we consume goods and has also changed how businesses and companies market and sell their products and services. It has even eliminated the need for a shop front altogether. . But why do Brits, in particular, love online shopping? Some surveys suggest up to 95% of UK citizens shop online regularly. It’s no surprise either; whether you’re looking for women’s Superdry jackets or some simple toiletries, online retailers have it all. .
Retail Wire
MAY 20, 2022
Retailers that stocked up due to pandemic-related supply chain challenges are finding that customers don’t want to buy much of what they have to sell. Chains including Kohl’s, Target and Walmart report high inventory levels, and discounters such as Burlington and Ross Stores say they are finding deals as brands and retailers look to move closeout merchandise.
Nvidia
MAY 20, 2022
Building next-generation intelligent vehicles requires an AI infrastructure that pushes the cutting edge. Electric vehicle maker NIO is using NVIDIA HGX to build a comprehensive data center infrastructure for developing AI-powered, software-defined vehicles. With high-performance compute, the automaker can continuously iterate on sophisticated deep learning models, creating robust autonomous driving algorithms in a closed-loop environment.
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Category Management is a cornerstone of a successful retail strategy. While it promotes collaboration between manufacturers and retailers to optimize category performance, challenges persist in its effective implementation due to hurdles in communication and collaboration across teams and partners, and more. In this guide, we outline five essential strategies for success in 2025 that will touch on all the essential pieces of a successful strategy and implementation.
Retail Wire
MAY 20, 2022
Family Dollar is permanently closing a distribution center in Arkansas that was found earlier this year to be infested with rodents. The infestation led to the temporary closures of more than 400 stores as goods shipped from the warehouse were potentially contaminated.
365 Retail
MAY 20, 2022
Maze, the creator and purveyor of luxury outdoor furniture, has announced a brand refresh. To best suit its evolving customer in 2022 and core demographic, the rebrand features an all-new aesthetic, revitalised brand values, a new-look website and more. The rebrand comes at a hugely exciting time for Maze, having seen significant growth across its network of retail and trade business partners along with its own D2C channel.
Retail Dive
MAY 20, 2022
The department store looks into new categories as profit takes a hit, and the author and actress created four collections for the mass merchant.
Small Biz Trends
MAY 20, 2022
With classic business procedures owning warehouses and inventory is a common practice.in recent years new practices have come up with ways to reduce or render obsolete the need for inventory and inventory for certain types of business. Dropshipping is a means for the seller where they don’t need to keep the products they sell in stock. Dropshipping courses assist you in keeping up with this trend of recent years and start earning with it as well.
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Late deliveries. Split shipments. Spiraling freight costs. For home, furniture, and DIY brands, fulfillment has never been more complex—or more critical. This report outlines how a smarter, AI-ready order management system (OMS) helps you reduce shipping costs, streamline project-based fulfillment, and ensure accurate inventory across every channel.
Nvidia
MAY 20, 2022
Advances in extended reality have already changed the way we work , live and play , and it’s just getting started. Extended reality, or XR, is an umbrella category that covers a spectrum of newer, immersive technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. From gaming to virtual production to product design, XR has enabled people to create, collaborate and explore in computer-generated environments like never before.
Small Biz Trends
MAY 20, 2022
Floor mats for chairs are some of the most cost-effective office products around. They extend the life of your carpet or floor by protecting against wear and tear and preventing scratches on hardwood floors. They can also protect your equipment and data from damage caused by static electricity. Chair mats make it easier for a desk chair to move over floors or pile carpets, minimizing resistance and drag and preventing scuff marks.
Retail Dive
MAY 20, 2022
CEO Dick Johnson said Foot Locker is underpenetrated in "virtually all of our brands outside of our top three." That leaves room for growth.
Small Biz Trends
MAY 20, 2022
From its humble beginnings in the 1990s, the creator economy has now grown into a massive industry. Part of the “new economy,” early creators included authors, journalists, actors, musicians, artists and others. But without an available marketplace infrastructure to enable them to monetize their knowledge and talents, many struggled to gain a significant following.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Retail Dive
MAY 20, 2022
Heiko Schäfer joined in March 2020, just as COVID-19 began to upend the apparel industry.
Mulesoft
MAY 20, 2022
Many digital transformation initiatives are failing. In fact, 85% of digital transformations are slowed down or derailed by integration challenges. Why? Because various disparate systems and legacy infrastructure are barriers. Data is siloed. The pace of change is accelerating. As a result, companies are often disconnected from the data that helps them understand what’s happening […].
Retail Wire
MAY 20, 2022
The Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, NJ, will be the home of the first Nerf Action Xperience in North America. The 25,000 square-foot attraction will enable visitors to play with Nerf blasters and host meetings, children’s parties and other events.
Cisco Retail
MAY 20, 2022
Last week, Cisco’s Head of Open Source, Stephen Augustus, and I joined nearly 100 executives from 37 companies and leaders from the White House and across the U.S. federal government in Washington DC at the Open Source Software Security Summit II to finalize an action plan to boost the security of open source software (“OSS”). The development of this plan and its effective implementation are vital given how foundational OSS is to so many products and services we use every day to live, work, lear
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Retail Wire
MAY 20, 2022
The median residential rent paid in the U.S. rose to $1,827 in April, up 16.7 percent from the same month in 2021. “Renters are being left with few options but to meet higher rents and, in some cases, even offer above [the landlord’s] asking price — whether they can afford to or not,” said Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist.
Cisco Retail
MAY 20, 2022
We can’t control time, but we can control how we fill it. Everything we do today, every hour, every minute, every second, will shape what we can do tomorrow. So, if we want to see electric vehicles reach their full potential in the future we need to change the way we use them now, starting with the energy that powers them. What if we could use the batteries of electric vehicles in a completely different way to what we know, taking unused power from them to use in other places?
Retail Wire
MAY 20, 2022
Americans who spent the past couple of years at home due to the pandemic are determined to travel, and they’re doing so even though the average cost for a gallon of gas in the U.S. has risen to $4.59.
A1 Retail
MAY 20, 2022
Grosvenor has announced that award-winning British luxury jewellery retailer, David M Robinson (DMR), has significantly upsized and extensively refurbished its Liverpool ONE flagship. DMR’s commitment to expand and launch its latest concept showroom is a milestone moment for both the Liverpool brand and the destination, where it has operated since Liverpool ONE’s launch in 2008.
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When it comes to driving traffic and growing your online presence, businesses often ask: SEO or PPC—what’s the better choice? This guide breaks down the key differences between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, highlighting their pros, cons, and best use cases. Whether you’re looking for long-term organic growth or immediate visibility through paid ads, we’ll help you determine which strategy—or combination of both—is right for your business.
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