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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

That understanding leads retailers to a better chance at creating stronger relationships, connecting with more relevant audiences and converting sales faster. Sabina Klein is VP – Retail Marketing at Jun Group , where she leads shopper marketing sales and strategy.

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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. So are all these developments good for consumers?

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

Inside Retail

Strengthening our retail footprint by enhancing the retail marketing and visual merchandising experience, our product line, and our product distribution is going to be of prime importance,” Singh said. This followed with a gradual venture into brand owned kiosks and stores. “We The immediate future.

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Locals rebuff invaders: Inside Vietnam’s convenience stores war

Inside Retail

According to a report from market research house Q&Me, WinMart+ now dominates Vietnam’s convenience store market. This year, Masan took a majority stake in the owner of the Phuc Long tea chain and began adding tea and coffee kiosks to its convenience stores. Source: Statista.

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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

But could it still be a beneficial way for some smaller brands to launch into a market? Where DTC once was primarily focused on online start-ups disrupting the market, the model has evolved over time to become an established retail marketing and sales option.