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Alliance Retail Group Launches Retail Media Network to Help Independent Grocers Compete

Retail TouchPoints

Alliance Retail Group (ARG) — a nonprofit self-negotiating ad group that helps independent grocers band together to remain competitive — has launched a retail media network (RMN) that will be powered by Swiftly. billion in retail sales. We are leveraging our consumers and our collective $16.5

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Associated Wholesale Grocers Streamlines Member Access to Instacart Delivery and Smart Carts

Retail TouchPoints

Cooperative food wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) , which serves independently owned supermarkets, has expanded its partnership with Instacart to offer ecommerce and same-day delivery solutions as well as smart cart technology to its member retailers. An Instacart shopper will then pick and deliver the order.

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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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Why Amazon’s New “Just Walk Out” Supermarkets Will Change Everything. Forever

Retail Focus

For example, since McDonald’s introduced kiosk ordering systems, sales have increased, in part due to reduced customer pressure at point of sale (POS). Imagine the promotional potential: “ Welcome back, Mark. No checkouts affords a more motivated customer-facing team. Think about this a bit. Maybe try this? ”.

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For Online Impulse Buys, Personalization is the Sixth Sense

Retail TouchPoints

With in-store and online order histories, they can customize online promotions to grab shoppers’ attention. Grocers and big box retailers are under more pressure to spur online impulse buying because foot traffic has slowed down during the pandemic. The point-of-sale remains a big opportunity for impulse buys.

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Check it out – how grocery POS drives convenience and speed

I Vend

From frictionless checkout to seamless ERP integrations, to built-in promotions, loyalty, and inventory management – a sophisticated Grocery POS offers everything a modern-day retailer needs to deliver convenience to their customers. Shoppers are ‘ prioritising convenience and safety above all else’ reports The Grocer.

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Why Food Packaging Labels Are Essential to Online Order Fulfillment

Star Miconics

Grocers have repurposed space and reallocated labor to manage online orders. For example, follow an online order placed with a quick-service restaurant until it reaches the customer: Repositionable labels: The online ordering platform communicates the order to the QSR’s point-of-sale (POS) system and generates repositionable labels.