Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Centred around online gaming and Xbox, providing a platform for users to collaborate, engage with immersive experiences to explore, play games with their friends, and shop. Use cases include: Virtual Stores. Immersive shopping experiences brought to life through digital products, interactive content, and store-associate interaction.

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Consumer Store Layout Merchandise Store Fulfillment 263

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2024

Through AI and other technologies, customers in grocery stores, clothing outlets and other convenience-style shops no longer need to wait in line to check out. Frictionless checkout is an AI solution that allows for customers to shop for what they need and leave, and is now picking up steam in live event formats.

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Checkout Customer Experience Merchandise Store Consumer 172

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

Faced with an endless number of brands, product options and channels to shop through, consumers are looking for the perfect combination of “value” and “values.” Some capabilities will be subtle, even invisible, and support unique shopping missions as they span across the physical and virtual worlds.

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Consumer Shipping Management Merchandise Store 238

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The robots also provide location data down to four-foot sections, which Woodman’s Markets will use to empower associates when it comes to fulfilling online orders and stocking shelves. This data will be uploaded to its mobile shopping app, where it will guide pickers to each item to improve delivery times.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We’ve been steadily expanding our ecommerce options to ensure our customers can shop whenever, wherever and however it best fits their life,” said Lisa Harper, CEO of Belk in a statement. The retailer will charge $14.95 on orders under $49 and $9.95 for orders larger than that amount.

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Department Stores Shopping Merchandise Store Store Operations 268

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2024

Gen Z consumers are neither easy to define nor predictable in their shopping habits. It is assumed that they are more adept at using the technology in their hands and that this facility will inform their consuming behaviors, which McKinsey refers to as “seamless and intuitive adoption of online shopping and transactions.”

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Consumer Department Stores Merchandise Store Advertising 233

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. Ecommerce clearly isn’t going anywhere.

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