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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. Those same cameras and sensors also are at the heart of the grab-and-go checkout system featured in Amazon Go stores.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

Adopting BOPIS can be challenging so we’ll explain how you can successfully merge your online and physical store operations. BOPIS, meaning Buy Online, Pickup In-Store, is an order fulfillment option that helps retailers connect their e-commerce channels with their brick-and-mortar storefronts. What is BOPIS?

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

This approach to in-store product placement allows employees to easily monitor popular items and acknowledge customers in areas where they are displayed. Optimize inventory management: Like damaged products and shipping errors, theft can negatively impact retail inventory management.

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Stop out of stocks denting your profits this holiday season

I Vend

Here we take a look at how retail technology can help to streamline the top 10 key retail processes, and how a unified retail POS pulls them all together into a single, highly optimized retail operations platform. Inventory management – ‘the right goods, in the right place, at the right time’ sums up the core of retail.