Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The backlash toward leather-good brand Hermès has sparked protests around the world from affiliates of PETA after footage emerged last week of the “barbaric” conditions of its crocodile farm suppliers. In Paris, London and New York, PETA activists stood outside Hermès stores in crocodile masks, holding bloodied handbags and signs, protesting the business to stop the poor treatment of animals.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Workwear brand Carhartt is recognizing the importance and value of labor by teaming up with heavy metal band Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation, with the goal of training a new generation of skilled workers. Carhartt will donate all online sales on Labor Day 2021 to the foundation’s Metallica Scholars workforce education program, which connects students to hands-on learning and provides support to 23 schools via the American Association of Community Colleges.
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Retail Focus
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
After an exciting process of reviewing a record amount of entries, the shortlist for the third Creative Retail Awards has been revealed. The Awards recognise and reward innovation and excellence in retail design and experience from around the world. The winners and highly commended entries will be announced at a unique awards ceremony to be held at Proud Embankment on 14th October 2021.
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Cybersecurity affects all of us, but the industry uses complicated terms that make it hard to understand. For example, what is ransomware and how does it work? What does phishing mean? Or zero trust? Let’s discuss these cyber concepts in simple, everyday language. And let’s cover what the good guys are doing to make our online lives safer. What’s ransomware?
Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Autonomous trucks need to lighten the load when it comes to mapping, while still perceiving their surrounding environments reliably. That’s the approach Kodiak Robotics, a Silicon Valley-based self-driving truck startup, is taking to deploy safer and more efficient delivery and logistics. Today, the company unveiled its fourth-generation vehicle — powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin — that uses lightweight mapping and a discreet, modular hardware design to achieve level 4 self-driving capabilities.
Small Biz Trends
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
Sponsored Post. The average U.S. small business worker is estimated to work over 50 hours a week. That’s nearly 14 hours more than the average American worker, and 14 hours likely that these SMBs wish they could save in their weekly efforts. But how can they achieve this? Fortunately, retailers and SMBs who face difficulties with limited time and budget do not have to settle on these realities anymore.
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Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Augmented reality is no longer just for humans — online pet supply retailer Chewy is bringing one of the web’s hottest trends to our four-legged friends with the new “Fur-tual Boutique” virtual try-on experience. The AR tool lets dogs and cats virtually try out seven of Chewy’s most popular Halloween costumes from Frisco, including Cowboy, Killer Doll, Granny and Superhero.
Hyken
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Think about this … what if you were to charge a customer just to talk to you about what you would sell them? Or, if you own a retail store, a fee to enter the store. What would you have to do for your customers to be willing to pay for the privilege of buying your products or services? I’m not suggesting that you should. This is just to get you thinking about how good you really are.
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
As we ride the biggest digital wave in history, the internet has become fundamental to how society maintains livelihoods, conducts business, and stays connected. With it, come a constant evolution of risk. Phishing, service disruptions, ransomware, and other attacks hijack data, destroy sources of income, steal identities and invade privacy, derail nations, and change the course of history.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Satellite images can be a fantastic civil engineering tool — at least when clouds don’t get in the way. . Now researchers at Osaka University have shown how to use GPU-accelerated deep learning to remove these clouds. . The scientists from the university’s Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering used a “generative adversarial network” or GAN. . “By training the generative network to ‘fool’ the discriminative network into thinking an
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Small Biz Trends
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021
Cashiers play an important role in your business operation as they handle most of the monetary transactions. Not only do they handle your business’ cash they also can impact customer retention and prevent fraud. In this article, we will highlight some of the common mistakes cashiers make and how to look out for them. 10 Common Errors that Cashiers Make and How Employees Can Avoid Them.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Kate Morris has co-founded a new private equity firm in an effort to knock down the walls she faced as a female founder raising capital for Adore Beauty. The new venture, Glow Capital Partners, aims to help purpose-led founders make a positive impact through business, according to Morris. “My experience as a woman founder trying to raise capital was one of walking into rooms full of men in suits,” said Morris.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Shopping has been happening organically on TikTok for a while. Case in point — #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt , which has entered the cultural lexicon and boasts more than 4.6 billion views and counting. What hasn’t been happening much on TikTok is actual buying, until now that is. This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from
Hyken
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
One of the favorite chapters I wrote in my recent book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , was about why customers would terminate their relationship with you. Yes, the word terminate ties into the movie Terminator , which somehow became a theme in the background of the book. So, why would a customer terminate his or her relationship with you?
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The adoption of new Catalyst 9800 not only brought new ways to configure Wireless Controllers, but also several new mechanisms to troubleshoot them. It has some awesome troubleshooting features that will help to identify root causes faster spending less time and effort. There are several new key troubleshooting differentiators compared to previous WLC models: Trace-on-failure: Summary of detected failures.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Speedy diagnoses are critical, especially when a loved one seems to be slowly losing their cognitive abilities. Researchers from the Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania report they’ve developed a deep learning-based method able to predict the possible onset of Alzheimer’s disease from brain images with an accuracy of over 99 percent.
Small Biz Trends
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Sponsored Post. If you operate a retail ecommerce business, it’s never too early to start thinking about the holiday shopping season. With the ecommerce business market getting more competitive every year, especially around the holiday shopping season, you need to do more than ever to stay competitive and keep ringing up sales this year. The good news is that Rakuten Super Logistics has just published a FREE eBook to help small retail ecommerce businesses like yours.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Almost half of Australian shoppers now use online search and websites to discover new brands, and one in ten do so through social media, according to a new report by Shopify. Online shopping habits have changed a lot in the last few years, with the acceleration caused by the Covid-19 crisis shifting the way consumers view the channel. In Shopify’s ‘This is a store’ survey, 83 per cent of all shoppers said it is crucial that a brand now have an online presence, while 7 per cent said it only matte
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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
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Avery Dennison has signed an agreement to acquire Vestcom , a privately held pricing and branded labeling solution provider, for $1.45 billion in a cash transaction subject to certain closing and post-closing adjustments. Vestcom uses data management capabilities to synthesize and streamline store-level data and deliver item-specific, price-integrated messaging at the shopper’s point of decision.
Talking Retail
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
A One Stop franchisee in Scotland has hit £1m worth of sales through Snappy Shopper in less than two years. Adeil Hussain went through the £1m mark in just 20 months at his store in Airbles, Motherwell. Hussain has racked up over 19,660 orders and 800 customers. He said: “The figures really speak for themselves. We’ve. This story continues at Home deliveries hit £1m in less than two years for Scottish retailer.
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Today’s customers don’t just want a great product, they demand an elevated experience. Customers want a clear path to installing, using, and optimizing their purchases so that they can accelerate their time to business value. Increasingly, customers want to control their experience – when they access information and from which sources. One of the most frequented places our customers turn for the information they need is the Cisco Community , where customers share best practices, find useful reso
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Workers are not responding to these cues as they traditionally have. Why? Most retailers are using an outdated hiring playbook, write Alvarez and Marsal's David Ritter and Conor Gaffney.
Advertiser: FourKites
Direct Store Delivery, or DSD, is a common practice among global suppliers and retailers – like PepsiCo, Frito Lay, CVS, and Dollar General – and its popularity is growing, with the global DSD market expected to reach $1.19 trillion by 2027. Download this eBook for exclusive insights into direct store deliveries, challenges, benefits, and future trends.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Accelerated computing is humming in the background, making life better even on a quiet night at home. It prevents credit card fraud when you buy a movie to stream. It recommends a dinner you might like and arranges a fast delivery. Maybe it even helped the movie’s director win an Oscar for stunning visuals. So, What Is Accelerated Computing? Accelerated computing is the use of specialized hardware to dramatically speed up work, often with parallel processing that bundles frequently occurring tas
Hyken
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Here is an interesting idea. Most businesses are competitive. They want to be better than their competition. Sometimes they try to out-service their competition. Sometimes they lower their prices to beat their competition. The point is that they are only looking at the competition. What if they looked beyond the competition? What if they looked at the world?
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Seemingly every day there’s another announcement about a new feature enabling purchases on one social platform or another. In the last two months alone, TikTok has rolled out dedicated “Shopping Tabs” for Shopify merchants, Twitter began a pilot of its “Shop Module,” and Pinterest made it possible for creators to “control the shopability of their content” by tagging products.
Talking Retail
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Mondel?z International is set to roll out new packaging for its Cadbury Dairy Milk brand, made from 30% recycled plastic. The packaging will be rolled out across more than 28 million sharing bars in 2022, as part of a broader global commitment to reduce the use of virgin plastic material in its overall packaging portfolio. This story continues at Mondel?
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.
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Some days I really get excited about my job. A self-driving race car challenge? That’s just cool any way you look at it. For entertainment, for innovation, and for demonstrating the move to automation that’s already underway across industries. But before we get to that, let me give you a peek inside the first autonomous car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
The department store has rented the 2,200-square-foot billboard for 60 years, and filed an injunction stipulating that it can't legally go to a competitor.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
NVIDIA delivers the best results in AI inference using either x86 or Arm-based CPUs, according to benchmarks released today. It’s the third consecutive time NVIDIA has set records in performance and energy efficiency on inference tests from MLCommons , an industry benchmarking group formed in May 2018. And it’s the first time the data-center category tests have run on an Arm-based system, giving users more choice in how they deploy AI, the most transformative technology of our time.
Hyken
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
The Ultimate Marketing Engine. Creating Customers for Life. Shep Hyken interviews John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of The Ultimate Marketing Engine. They discuss how to serve, understand, and create evangelists out of your ideal customers. Top Takeaways: A repeat customer keeps coming back but a loyal customer is someone who will do even more business with you once they come back.
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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