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How Woodman’s Markets is Harnessing In-Store ‘Anti-COVID Robots’

Retail TouchPoints

In-store robots aren’t just tools that can check for mislabeled products or clean messes in a timely manner. Robots can detect misplaced products used to cover shelving holes, speed up online orders and make restocking easier, by constantly mapping a store and sharing this data with key players.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? That increases the need for [domestic] storage locations, including warehouses and retail stores that are close to where your markets are. What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important.

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What the metaverse means for retail and consumer goods

Inside Retail

It seems like every day a new piece of content is published about the metaverse that defines the metaverse, projects its market size, and offers frameworks for conceptual understanding. Create virtual planograms for associates to collaborate on core store-visualisation tasks such as merchandising, store layout and seasonal updates.

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

As a result, many have had to slow down their production, marketing and distribution efforts and focus instead on safeguarding their financial stability. But now, with a more dispersed distribution, it has become increasingly tricky to allocate marketing budgets effectively.

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

As a result, many have had to slow down their production, marketing and distribution efforts and focus instead on safeguarding their financial stability. But now, with a more dispersed distribution, it has become increasingly tricky to allocate marketing budgets effectively.

Marketing 229
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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

Retail TouchPoints

Truist Park in Atlanta is another stadium recognizing the impact of fast concessions and the huge success of self-checkout in grocery and retail stores worldwide. Last year, it implemented several self-checkout stations for its market concessions. Leaving the Friction in the Dugout For some, that’s still too much human interaction.

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Saving Shoppers from the Sea of Sameness

Retail TouchPoints

Have you made it easy for them to share with customers what makes your brand stand apart, and how it will solve the customer’s problem or fulfill their need? Are the features and benefits that make your brand unique top-of-mind with them? Colin House is CEO of Intellibed.