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Opinion: An Unvarnished Review of the Smart Cart Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

The Editors’ Perspectives column offers insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. This month Retail TouchPoints has been exploring the state of autonomous checkout experiences in our series From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out.

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Retail’s Best Gift Ever? Zero-Party Data

Retail TouchPoints

One silver lining though all of this has been the emergence of zero-party data in retail’s marketing arsenal. Sherif Fahmy is SVP, Strategy & Analytics at IN Connected Marketing. Sabina Klein is VP – Retail Marketing at Jun Group , where she leads shopper marketing sales and strategy.

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Matching Tech to New In-Store Experiences: 6 Steps to Success

Retail TouchPoints

For example, in-store kiosks can’t support endless aisle experiences if they aren’t underpinned by real-time inventory visibility and omnichannel order management capabilities. “Do Do retailers have interest in technologies that garner a lot of attention and PR? “Do

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Amazon’s Move Into the Malls

Retail TouchPoints

They may not necessarily stock these items at these showrooms and fulfillment centers, but they can be ordered using Amazon mobile apps, websites and kiosks. Amazon also has plans for a foray into retail grocery, a model quite different from that of Whole Foods. While larger retailers (e.g.

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T-Mobile Targets Retail and Manufacturing Business with Advanced Industry Solutions

Small Biz Trends

Businesses will also be able to gauge the effectiveness of their marketing efforts such as window merchandising and in-store kiosk displays. Another retail industry-specific feature is the retail analytics offering from FastSensor, called Retail Lite. billion in 2020, to $20.8 billion in 2025.”

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Locals rebuff invaders: Inside Vietnam’s convenience stores war

Inside Retail

A decade ago, convenience stores were a rare sight in Vietnam, where the vast majority of the population was used to shopping in traditional markets or mom-and-pop stores for everyday grocery needs. In recent years, the nation’s convenience store market has seen rapid escalation – and sophistication – in the larger cities.

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Meet Sugar: The “anti-establishment” beauty retailer Indian consumers crave

Inside Retail

It’s been quite a year for Indian beauty retailer Sugar, which has just concluded a $50 million Series D fundraise led by the Asia Fund of L Catterton. While multinational brands had always dominated the Indian market, their beauty products were not really suited to the skin complexion of the typical Indian consumer.

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