Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2022

When Covid hit and physical stores closed, many retailers were left floundering, trying to work out how to maintain their relationships with customers and remain relevant in their hearts and minds. Enter the acceleration of social commerce. “The role of social media is changing. It is now both the megaphone and the marketplace for brands. It is the new search, the new storefront and the new helpdesk,” observes Etienne Mérineau, senior director of marketing at Hootsuite.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

5G is the talk of the town these days — up there with Web3 and the metaverse. But just like those other technologies, 5G is less a specific solution and more of an enabler. What matters most is what you do with it. So what can retailers do with 5G? There are an almost infinite number of answers, but the long and the short of it is that 5G will enable merchants to perform intricate digital tasks faster and on a much larger scale. “5G is really three things — speed , latency and massive connectivi

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 29, 2022

A study conducted by NFT experts has discovered which states have been searching for NFTs and related NFT search terms the most over the last twelve months. T hese States are the Most Obsessed with NFTs. Los Muertos used Google Trends to analyze all fifty states and the District of Columbia to uncover the data which revealed California to be the state with the most NFT-related searches.

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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.

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Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Dezeen

MAY 5, 2022

A pink furry fashion boutique, a cosmetics store styled like a 1970s office and a streetwear outlet adorned with a chandelier of Nike trainers feature in this roundup of weird and wonderful retail interiors. The past year has seen a growing trend for over-the-top shop interiors, from stores containing surreal sculptures and installations to those masquerading as something else entirely.

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Nvidia

MAY 30, 2022

It’s time to start building tomorrow’s hybrid quantum computers. The motivation is compelling, the path is clear and key components for the job are available today. Quantum computing has the potential to bust through some of today’s toughest challenges, advancing everything from drug discovery to weather forecasting. In short, quantum computing will play a huge role in HPC’s future.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

Tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft have gone all-in on the metaverse, based on the idea that it’s the future of digital experiences like gaming, collaboration and marketing. In fact, the parent company of the social media platform renamed itself to Meta — a sign of its confidence in the metaverse. In case you’re still fuzzy on the details, the metaverse is a 3D, virtual-reality space where users can interact with one another and an infinite number of fictional or real-life computer-generate

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 30, 2022

Using a green screen as a virtual background can be incredibly useful. For example, you can use a green screen background for content creation, such as videos, to hide your background for camera-on virtual meetings and other purposes. We’ll look closer at the green screen effect for this article, including what a green screen is and making a green screen work for your needs.

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Cisco Retail

MAY 17, 2022

When something in your house breaks, it’s your problem. When something in your network breaks, it’s everyone’s problem. At least, that’s how it can feel when the sudden influx of support tickets, angry phone calls, and so on start rolling in. They quickly remind you that those numbers behind the traffic visualizations are more than numbers alone. They represent individuals.

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365 Retail

MAY 27, 2022

This week, ESHO., the clinically inspired and doctor led cosmeceutical brand from Dr Tijion Esho MD, is opening a dedicated ‘tweakments’ space in the UK luxury retailer FLANNELS. Coinciding with FLANNELS launching a brand new space in Liverpool in June, ESHO products will be available to purchase in person for the first time, alongside the new one of a kind clinic.

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Nvidia

MAY 23, 2022

In the worldwide effort to halt climate change, Zac Smith is part of a growing movement to build data centers that deliver both high performance and energy efficiency. He’s head of edge infrastructure at Equinix, a global service provider that manages more than 240 data centers and is committed to becoming the first in its sector to be climate neutral.

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Inside Retail

MAY 26, 2022

Australian consumers are set to spend $8.8 billion during the coming months as mid-year seasonal sales ramp up and excess stock is sold. The Australian Retail Association (ARA) forecasts 52 per cent of consumers shopping mid-season sales will be doing so online. Around 6.2 million Australians will spend an average amount of $1420 each. NSW is expected to contribute $3.2 billion followed by Victoria at $1.9 billion and Queensland at $1.7 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

It’s no surprise that ecommerce has practically taken over the global economy. Annual online sales worldwide are expected to climb to a staggering $6.5 trillion by 2023. But alongside that dizzying sales growth, we’ve also witnessed a growing consciousness about how damaging all of those online sales are to the environment, and throughout the product lifecycle, from manufacturing to delivery to eventual disposal.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 4, 2022

Recent numbers tell the story of data breaches and SMBs. The Allianz Risk Barometer says global businesses are more worried about cyber risks than even the pandemic. So what does an enterprise do? How do they protect their hard-earned assets from a cyber attack? Or a data breach that costs? Here are some more small business data breach statistics to consider.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Cisco Retail

MAY 11, 2022

The Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) recently transitioned to the CCDE v3 certification blueprint. CCDE v2, its former version, had been around for… a while. A long while (especially when compared to the typical tech lifecycle), but that doesn’t mean it had stagnated. Part of the reason for that is that the focus of CCDE has long been on training network design professionals to think critically about network design and business practices, rather than focusing on the technology of the moment.

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Retail Dive

MAY 11, 2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new focus on "social policy significance" means some activist proposals will get a vote at the e-commerce giant's annual meeting this month.

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Nvidia

MAY 23, 2022

Electric utilities are taking a course in machine learning to create smarter grids for tough challenges ahead. The winter 2021 megastorm in Texas left millions without power. Grid failures the past two summers sparked devastating wildfires amid California’s record drought. “Extreme weather events of 2021 highlighted the risks climate change is introducing, and the importance of investing in more resilient electricity grids,” said a May 2021 report from the International Energy Agency, a group wi

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365 Retail

MAY 30, 2022

In twelve short months, the word ‘metaverse’ has evolved from the plot point of a niche sci-fi novel to the world’s largest tech obsession. Enormous investments from industry leaders like Meta (formerly Facebook) and Microsoft have only added to the anticipation, and experts now agree it has the potential to revolutionise digital experiences. . As Mark Zuckerberg aims to launch key features of the metaverse in as little as five years , businesses worldwide must prepare now to harness the impact

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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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.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 29, 2022

Progressive Insurance is supporting Hispanic entrepreneurs through a new grant program in partnership with online business platform Hello Alice. The Driving Small Business Forward grant program will provide ten grants of $25,000 to eligible small businesses. Funding can be used toward the purchase of a commercial vehicle. Progressive Insurance Supporting Hispanic Entrepreneurs with $25K Small Business Grants.

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Cisco Retail

MAY 31, 2022

We’ve come a long way since our in-person Cisco Live in 2019. Over this time, everything hasn’t always gone as expected, but one thing has become quite clear. Business as we know it will never be the same. Whether it’s how we consume entertainment, move applications or systems to the cloud, or immerse in hybrid work, everything has gone digital. With this huge leap, Cisco is in a unique position to help you embrace digital.

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Retail Dive

MAY 3, 2022

The industry has failed to sustain the momentum it appeared to have on its side just a few months prior, writes Bob Hoyler, senior consultant at Euromonitor International.

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Nvidia

MAY 2, 2022

Jack Morrison and Isaac Roberts, co-founders of Replica Labs, were restless two years after their 3D vision startup was acquired, seeking another adventure. Then, in 2018, when Morrison was mowing his lawn, it struck him: autonomous lawn mowers. The two, along with Davis Foster, co-founded Scythe Robotics. The company, based in Boulder, Colo., has a 40-person team working with robotics and computer vision to deliver what it believes to be the first commercial electric self-driving mower service.

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365 Retail

MAY 23, 2022

Braehead owned by property company SGS and asset managed by Global Mutual Properties, has announced that H&M has opened the doors to its new new Braehead store in Glasgow. H&M has re-located from its former unit to a new ground floor space, spanning 17,000 sq ft, on a 10-year lease. Visitors to the store will enjoy a new, bespoke interior, with an emphasis on creating a warmer and more relaxed environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

Once the pandemic is over for good (thankfully), we’ll have the chance to process what happened over the past few years. This goes for the lessons learned by retail brands as they operated through one crisis-induced challenge after the next, navigating the ups and downs of the pandemic as best they could, while meeting unprecedented customer demand.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 28, 2022

Did you ever have one of those days at work? We’ve all been there when we can’t figure out if it’s Murphy’s Law or if we were born under a bad sign. Sometimes all you can do is laugh. It’s no wonder why #workfails is always popular across so many social media platforms. Small business mistakes can be hazardous, but these workplace mishaps are hilarious, and we can’t help but relate to the protagonists… or should we call them victims?

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Speaker: Robyn O’Brien - Founder of Sirona Ventures, Adjunct Professor at Rice University’s Business School, Supply Chain Optimization and Logistics Expert

Today’s supply chain leaders are required to stay strong in the face of disruption and not only accept it, but embrace it – after all, progress is made outside of your comfort zone. While it’s easier said than done, conquering the fear of instability in your supply chain is within your reach. Thanks to the advancement of technology and AI, we now have more tools and resources at our disposal than ever before to conquer, not crumble, in the face of uncertainty.

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Cisco Retail

MAY 10, 2022

Today’s nimble and scalable applications are being written to be event-driven. With event-driven applications, processes do their work and then trigger events. Other processes listen for triggered events, then do their work and trigger more events. It is no longer acceptable to send a request and then wait for a sequence of several, synchronous processes to complete before getting a response.

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Retail Dive

MAY 23, 2022

Learn how corrugated boxes are manufactured, used and recycled with the utmost care to maintain circularity and prevent waste throughout the supply chain – all the way to consumers' homes.

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Nvidia

MAY 12, 2022

Bengal tigers, red pandas and mountain gorillas are among the world’s most familiar endangered species, but tens of thousands of others — like the Karpathos frog, the Perote deer mouse or the Mekong giant catfish — are largely unknown. Typically perceived as lacking star quality , these species are now roaming massive billboards in one of the world’s busiest destinations.

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365 Retail

MAY 24, 2022

The Range and TV shopping channel, Ideal World TV will launch The Range TV this weekend as they look to win the battle for consumer attention both in-store and on screens with a unique retailer-shopping-channel partnership. Ideal World TV will provide studio space for The Range to install a full ‘store-in-studio’, livestreaming the retailer’s video content on popular social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube – as well as broadcasting on Ideal World’s own TV shopping chan

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