Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2023

It will also enable retailers to open shops on its marketplace, where they can house their goods independently or in third-party warehouses contracted by Kaddy. In addition, the company will offer credit terms of up to 60 days to select customers and improved management and point-of-sale systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Another key challenge for Hot Topic’s inventory management system is ensuring its BOPIS options run smoothly even as it fulfills orders across multiple channels. The company leans on its omnichannel fulfillment software to ensure these transactions run smoothly. It manages our BOPIS component.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

margin points when their customers’ journeys are not optimized, but when they are optimized, they can recover about 70% of that margin loss,” explained Buzek. Buzek, who has studied and quantified retail technology for decades, shared the top 10 contactless trends to watch for in the coming months and years.

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Independent Retailer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Shopping Centers-as-a-Service” is a relatively new phenomenon that offers customers a fully integrated physical and digital experience that makes shopping frictionless and memorable. For the past decade, malls and retail centers have become less about literal shopping and more about the greater experience. . by Nicola Kinsella.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2023

But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. The pandemic, of course, changed that equation: “Within a couple of weeks, a team of about 10 of us put 100 items on a micro site, allowing people to shop and access critical items that they could get through the [pharmacy] drive-thru,” said Mikos. “It

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The key expansions include Target adding Sezzle and Affirm to its payment options; Simon enabling Klarna for interested merchants at any of its shopping centers; and FreedomPay integrating Klarna into its platform to provide more brick-and-mortar retailers access to BNPL options.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Instead, consumers are more likely to embark on fewer but more intentional shopping trips, making more purchases per visit. Considering the above, it’s clear that retailers will be best positioned to fulfill the needs of the new post-COVID consumer with a hybrid approach to physical and virtual space. The Online-Offline Hybrid.

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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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Storis

APRIL 18, 2024

Customers expect a precise delivery date to be declared to proceed with a purchase both when shopping online and in-store. It’s about providing a date to close the sale and being able to reliably achieving it. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders.

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Storis

APRIL 12, 2024

Customers expect a precise delivery date to be declared to proceed with a purchase both when shopping online and in-store. It’s about providing a date to close the sale and being able to reliably achieving it. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Connectivity is critical to driving in-store traffic, providing a seamless shopping experience, fostering a robust brand connection and creating lasting memories. 5G can also connect mobile point-of-sale (POS) terminals , self-service kiosks, scan-and-go checkouts and other forms of frictionless shopping with ease.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2021

Iconic Australian bootmaker R.M.Williams is making its biggest ever capital investment in digital to provide customers with more choice and convenience while shopping, according to chief technology officer Nathan Alexander. “We’re This digital transformation project follows the purchase of R.M.

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Retail Bound

APRIL 13, 2024

an online order fulfillment service, defines a stock-out as the sale of an out-of-stock product by a retailer, due to infrequent product level reporting by the supplier. ” The sale of an out-of-stock product can lead to angry customers, a bad reputation, and even lawsuits. ” says Gilmore.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2021

GIANT has added frictionless just walk out technology at a grab-and-go convenience store located at its Philadelphia ecommerce fulfillment center. Once an individual downloads the app, they can simply scan in, shop and walk out. It’s that easy. Shoppers can grab a snack, a salad, fresh fruit or even a carton of milk as they head home.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 10, 2022

While it’s almost inevitable that ecommerce growth will outpace growth through physical stores at some point in the future, it would be a huge mistake to lose sight of the critical role stores have to play beyond simply profit. The Value of Modern POS. The post WHAT IS FUELING THE REBIRTH OF PHYSICAL STORES?

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Inside Retail

JULY 1, 2021

Perhaps one of the biggest buzzwords of 2020 was ‘omnichannel’, as it became increasingly clear to retailers that they needed to offer customers more options on how and where they want to shop, whether it’s offering ship-from-store, click-and-collect, view instore inventory online or reserve-in-store. Enter unified commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

Why Digital Pure-Play is the Only Way The up-and-coming shoppers of these eight countries are already digital experts, and that definitely applies to how they like to shop. However, more than half of the shoppers in these countries prefer shopping on social media to other purchasing apps. You don’t have to build big box stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The point-of-sale (POS) system has always been the one truly indispensable technology for any merchant, large or small. Features like AI-powered recommendations and dynamic pricing are personalizing shopping experiences. Simply asking ‘How was your shopping experience today?’

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2021

The data is available in real time at the POS, empowering store associates to deliver seamless brand experiences with capabilities such as mobile checkout, endless aisle, store fulfillment, inventory management and clienteling. Our brand is a true labor of love,” said Alex Faherty, Co-founder and CEO of Faherty Brand in a statement. “As

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 9, 2023

Over the past 12 years, the brand has grown to encompass nine of its own stores, one franchise, and an online store with an on-premise point-of-sale system. The impact of online shopping The rise of online shopping, accelerated by the pandemic, had a strong impact on the What’s Cooking business.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One important technology to embrace to bridge the on/offline divide is video, so that consumers that used to shop in-store as a pastime, can still get onsite and get direct access to expertise of store staff, albeit virtually. And at the point of sale, this is about offering the best payment, delivery and returns options.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

For those not familiar, it’s an enormous structure, and like most auto-centric suburban shopping centers, it’s surrounded by acres of parking spaces. Supreet Barhay: Even before the pandemic, we were looking at ways shopping centers could draw more foot traffic by creating additional places for community and engagement.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

From the point-of-sale to stock information, the retail industry is brimming with data. Yet these data points are only part of the story. Awareness of consumer behavior in the offline retail world can help brands drive sales, find ideal customers, and innovate. Use Location Data to Better Understand your Audience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2022

With the introduction of our Red By Dufry loyalty program, we are giving travelers yet another reason to shop our stores while finding new opportunities to deliver our Traveler’s Best Friend experience, no matter where they travel.”. The retailer announced its plans to deploy Amazon ’s Just Walk Out technology in select stores in early 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether it was inspiration from this “summer of sport” or keeping up with the ever-changing weather, the increasing unpredictability of consumers’ shopping habits was on display this summer. Having grown up as internet natives, Gen Z is said to be more desensitized to traditional advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

During Brok’s tenure, Sephora has deployed new technology and services as well as expanding its partnership with Kohl’s : Sephora launched same-day delivery in partnership with Delivery Solutions in November 2021; In February 2022 , Kohl’s and Sephora revealed plans to add 400 Sephora shop-in-shops to reach their goal of 850 locations by 2023; and (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From tiny boutiques to nationwide giants, retailers are using livestreaming and live shopping to reach customers in new and compelling ways. Brick-and-mortar locations are still essential parts of the shopper journey, but they need to be reconfigured to accommodate both shopper discovery and functions like flexible store-based fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Panelists shared insights from the Salesforce Shopping Index , which collected responses from more than one billion consumers worldwide, and the annual Sixth Edition: State of Marketing Report , which was released this May. Given the proliferation of shopping platforms, retail marketers are striving to make the checkout experience easy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

There’s an art and science to using customer data to capture shopping behaviors and trends and activating that data along with the right shopping features. Instant answers about product sizing or shipping details can greatly influence the shopping experience and make or break a sale.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2022

As a people-first innovation nexus, Decathlon Lab will continue fulfilling Decathlon’s mission to conceive sports products and services to make a healthier and more active lifestyle more accessible and sustainable to the many. This provides a layer of ease and convenience for customers in constructing a seamless shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

Using AI-powered shopping assistants, virtual catwalks and brochures, and 3D product displays can create an entirely new and highly immersive in-store experience. However, realizing the store of the future means that the physical store needs to be a whole lot more connected, mobile and smarter.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Everyone wants to reduce complexity at the front end of stores, and ultimately the best way to do that would be to turn trolleys into a point of sale (POS). We can be predictive on how they like to shop, but we can’t predict what they’re going to buy, because the economic context drives that.

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Star Miconics

APRIL 12, 2024

Explore Star Labeling Solutions Understanding Omnichannel Commerce Omnichannel retail expands traditional in-store or digital shopping methods by connecting different points of engagement to create cohesive customer experiences. Talk to your employees to understand their pain points and suggestions for improving workflows.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Things like ecommerce will soon eclipse brick-and-mortar, retail is facing an apocalypse or delivery to home will become the norm in grocery shopping. In the ChaseDesign Q1 Shopper Sentiment Survey, 85% of people said, “I plan to shop in physical stores more in 2022 than last year.” Shoppers are returning to stores, again.

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I Vend

OCTOBER 10, 2023

RIS has rounded up the key research carried out by expert consultants and curated it into an overview of the likely shape of this holiday shopping season. Omnichannel – a retail point of sale system that offers shoppers online/offline transactions such as Click and Collect , curbside pickup and Buy Online Return to Store (BORIS).

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I Vend

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Online shopping is intrinsically more personalized – a customer can be greeted by name, shown previous orders, receive suggestions for items they might like and have their payment details stored for seamless checkout. How can retailers prepare for the increase in online shopping?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2022

By the end of April, Australians will be able to buy and operate a non-alcoholic bottle shop through an upcoming franchising arrangement with Sans Drinks, a Sydney-based business started by Nourished Life founder Irene Falcone. Open Australia’s first non-alcoholic bottle shop directly across the road from a major liquor store.”.

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