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How digital signage and kiosks can help stores match the online experience

Inside Retail

Having embraced digital shopping channels during the pandemic, Australian consumers have become well used to the personalisation and tailored content offered online. Research by Google, published in the company’s Spring/Summer Shopping Behaviours 2021 study, found 50 per cent of consumers say they now shop both in-store and online.

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

Inside Retail

With new applications on the horizon, AI is set to play an ever growing role in improving not only customer experience, but also store efficiency and operations. Meanwhile, other companies are using AI to provide a more personalised shopping experience for customers by analysing their browsing and checkout history.

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#TBT: Service Merchandise Was the OG Multi-Channel Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

I have very vivid memories about Service Merchandise , a now-defunct business with a unique ordering process focused on catalog inventory. Service Merchandise was a bit more fun than today’s similar IKEA shopping experience because it carried more than mediocre DIY housewares and furniture. Don’t remember it?

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The customer is in control: Here’s the new payment and checkout experience

Inside Retail

However, the past few years have also exposed what online shopping just cannot replicate – human interaction, experiential shopping and social connection. . “We Of course, physical retail has had to undergo a few changes since the first wave of Covid, particularly at entry, payment and checkout.

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How Hydra Health is Transforming the Hospital Gift Shop

Retail TouchPoints

That translates into gift shops and cafeteria spaces that are often sterile environments featuring the same mediocre-quality products and pre-packaged foods. In typical gift shops, “you see a lot of things behind glass display cases, but what people are usually looking for is some deodorant or even a hairbrush,” she said. “So

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How To Build A Self-Service Experience You’re Proud Of

Star Miconics

Self-service, or “unattended” environments, are the new expectation, and 2022 will officially be the watershed moment for self-checkout technology, adoption, and innovation. Consumers now expect payment solutions that both anticipate and address their needs no matter where, when, or how they choose to shop.

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

Buzek forecasts very strong growth for these solutions during the next two years, with self-checkout rising 178% , contactless payment climbing 190% and payment via consumers’ mobile devices increasing 300%. Retail ‘winners’ were already doing this at much higher levels than others, even before COVID,” said Buzek.