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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

A number of major retailers have had some form of adoption because of its ability to materially improve inventory management, but it hasn’t offered the same benefit to the customer experience. For example, a customer can scan a 2D barcode on a package of pasta sauce and instantly view ingredients, allergens, recipes and promotions.

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Grocery Trails the Retail Industry in CX and Fulfillment. Here are 4 Ways That Will Change in 2021

Retail TouchPoints

Online grocery’s previously lethargic rate of adoption meant that grocers lagged other retail sectors in multichannel merchandising systems, customer data management and fulfillment technology. As a result, profitability for these online grocers is a challenge. Specifically, expect to see the following come to pass: 1.

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Smart shopping carts, low-code and robots: Welcome to retail tech in 2023

Inside Retail

From smart shopping carts and intelligent buying assistants, to dynamic pricing algorithms and inventory tracking systems, retailers will have access to a wealth of powerful tools that enhance their ability to meet customers’ needs and respond quickly to changes in the market. .

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How the Store of the Future will Track Shopper Behavior Ecommerce-Style

Retail TouchPoints

The digitization of brick-and-mortar stores is nothing new, but up until recently it has primarily been focused on surfaces in the store that are already digital: point-of-sale systems or back-of-house tasks like inventory management. If the NRF show is any indicator, then that is exactly things are headed in the coming years.

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What Nordstrom’s Paul Smith pop-up says about the future of this retail trend

Inside Retail

In the past 10-plus years, I have seen Diptique, Zimmerman, Asos, Prada Cosmetics (currently in New York City), Etam, Pop-Up Grocer, London’s Topshop, and Parisian Coperni at Nordstrom pop-ups in New Jersey and more recently at the New York City flagship,” Driscoll told Inside Retail. The brand can also gain experience with retail operations.

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CI&T Study: To Create Lean and Mean Demand Forecasts, Move to Real-Time Data Sharing

Retail TouchPoints

“If both parties began looking at a variety of data sets, but through the same lens, there would be much more strategic alignment and much less of a disconnect visible in inventory management,” noted Melissa Minkow, Retail Industry Lead at CI&T in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Innovation Is Transforming Retail At The Shelf Level — But What’s Powering The Shelf?

Retail TouchPoints

Smart shelves are systems made up of a variety of technologies designed to help retailers make smarter inventory planning and merchandising decisions, automatically sense stock levels, and collect customer data like foot traffic patterns, shopping behavior and more. Smart shelf technology can also interact with customers via smartphones.

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