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Computer Vision-Enabled App Helps Home Depot Improve On-Shelf Availability

Retail TouchPoints

Home Depot is on the leading edge with this type of tech usage: the 2023 Retail TouchPoints Store Operations Benchmark Survey revealed that just 28% of retailer respondents’ associates use mobile devices to audit visual merchandising and displays.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Although the creative aspect is especially important, designers and visual merchandising teams need to work closely with their colleagues in marketing, IT and business strategy to ensure all decisions align with the bigger picture. AI-enhanced video surveillance also will enable retailers to battle this dilemma.

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5 Key Business Challenges Behind Your Merchandising Strategy

Wiser

The promoting and selling strategies that retailers use to increase sales, boost profits, draw in new customers, improve customer experiences, and shape brand image are all part of merchandising. Often, merchandising includes things like creating a pricing strategy, display design and layout, loss prevention, and store upkeep.

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Two Women Use Walmart App to Steal $100,000 Worth of Merchandise

VMS

Police in Arizona have arrested two women who are accused of stealing $100,000 worth of merchandise from several Walmart stores using the retailer’s in-store scanning app, Fox 10 Phoenix reports. The post Two Women Use Walmart App to Steal $100,000 Worth of Merchandise appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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Target Cuts Store Hours in San Francisco Due to “Alarming Rise in Theft”

VMS

Target (Minneapolis) has cut its operating hours at its San Francisco locations due to an increase in theft and “security incidents,” according to local San Francisco CBS broadcast news KPIX 5. These Target locations will now have a 9 a.m. schedule as opposed to the retailer’s normal schedule of 7 or 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.

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Target Cuts Operating Hours in San Francisco

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Target (Minneapolis) has cut its operating hours at its San Francisco locations due to an increase in theft and “security incidents,” according to local San Francisco CBS broadcast news KPIX 5. These Target locations will now have a 9 a.m. schedule as opposed to the retailer’s normal schedule of 7 or 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

VMS

But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. Starbucks workers organized at many locations in 2022. location voted in favor of starting a union. It was the third company-owned location to so vote.