Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. We’re going to see a mix of these stores and pop-ups, which brands will lean into as brand ignition moments.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The framework aims to bring more inclusive innovation in physical and digital spaces while enabling Starbucks to scale accessible design across its store portfolio. While the new Starbucks in Washington, DC is the first store designed with an inclusive setup, it will not be the company’s last.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

While the retailer will be focused on improving existing store experiences at scale moving forward, Best Buy is planning to “open a few additional outlet centers and new formats to continue to test two important concepts,” said Barry.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

Evaluate Your Retail Store’s Location. Every retail store has unique property characteristics that should be taken into consideration when deciding on physical security — one of which includes where your store is located. Ensure that your store has proper lighting for clear video footage.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The digitization of brick-and-mortar stores is nothing new, but up until recently it has primarily been focused on surfaces in the store that are already digital: point-of-sale systems or back-of-house tasks like inventory management. Here are three examples of retailers already doing it today. and Vancouver, Wash. —

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

During Brok’s tenure, Sephora has deployed new technology and services as well as expanding its partnership with Kohl’s : Sephora launched same-day delivery in partnership with Delivery Solutions in November 2021; In February 2022 , Kohl’s and Sephora revealed plans to add 400 Sephora shop-in-shops to reach their goal of 850 locations by 2023; and (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., The Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology also has been deployed by other brands, including select Panera Bread locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

Earlier this month , the company revealed that it was removing its cashierless Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and would not deploy it in new locations scheduled to open later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Amazon ’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology has been deployed in more than 120 third-party locations, including airports, stadiums, university campuses, convenience stores and theme parks. One of the more recent implementations was the St. Joseph’s/Candler Hospital Campus in Savannah, Ga.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Things like ecommerce will soon eclipse brick-and-mortar, retail is facing an apocalypse or delivery to home will become the norm in grocery shopping. Shoppers are returning to stores, again. In the ChaseDesign Q1 Shopper Sentiment Survey, 85% of people said, “I plan to shop in physical stores more in 2022 than last year.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

When this person comes across an ad for a product that interests them — say, a backpack — getting that shopper through checkout as fast as possible is a top priority because as soon as they start moving, the sale is lost. Retailers used to be blind to who their shoppers are and what they’re shopping for, but not anymore.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Amazon built synthetic data sets to mimic millions of realistic shopping scenarios — including variations in store format, lighting conditions and even crowds of shoppers — to help ensure accuracy in virtually any setting.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

The Canadian marketplace has responded positively to JD, and we want to give customers who shop in-store and online the best possible cross-channel experience by leveraging leading technology that optimizes visibility, accuracy and speed,” said Gary Ochi, CEO of JD Sports Canada in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Utilizing these platforms for promoting giveaways, contests or countdowns directly on your signage further incentivizes shopper participation, creating a lively and interactive shopping environment. Depending on your location or target demographic, both options can be very valuable for your customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

margin points when their customers’ journeys are not optimized, but when they are optimized, they can recover about 70% of that margin loss,” explained Buzek. These [second locations] take those shoppers out of the regular store’s aisles into a space that can be fully automated with robotics, floor to ceiling.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

But rather than a sign of storefront abandonment, experts are expecting retailers to consolidate their locations, to pare down their real estate portfolio and focus their resources on a couple of choice locations. Although competition in the market will shift, physical store locations will remain a cornerstone of retail operations.

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M19 Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Alterra, known for its commitment to providing exceptional outdoor experiences, sought to enhance its retail operations across multiple facets as well as to centralize systems across all their resorts. This will result in improved stock accuracy and a more efficient supply chain across 10+ resorts and 140+ retail locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Appointments for high-end fashion brand shopping have been a long-time standard, but they’ve begun to trickle down to fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara too. Customers book an appointment online and then shop in-store, creating a more curated feel while making life easier for associates to manage.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The point-of-sale (POS) system has always been the one truly indispensable technology for any merchant, large or small. Features like AI-powered recommendations and dynamic pricing are personalizing shopping experiences. Simply asking ‘How was your shopping experience today?’

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

Businesses can collect real-time data on how the goods are stored and transported, their location and their condition during delivery. Such RFID data is critical when goods are stolen to be resold and also gives valuable insights into which stores require more attention in terms of security. Exceptional customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

Circle K will pilot a touchless autonomous checkout solution in one of its Phoenix locations and plans to add the technology to other store locations. We will not have to relocate merchandise, replace shelves or build an entirely new store to implement autonomous checkout.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

To attract a new generation of shoppers, retailers are looking to redefine go-to-market strategies and reimagine the customer experience inside their physical store locations. To accomplish this, operational models need to be adapted quickly. Michael Cabra is Senior Product Manager, Global and Emerging Markets, Cybera.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

The Burton name is on 66 stores in 10. The company owns and operates 34 locations, both flagships or outlets, and the remainder are owned and operated by partners such as high-end resorts. If a customer walks into a store and says, ‘My hands are full, ship it to me,’ that’s one experience we have to offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Responding to an escalating demand for contactless payment options, CVS Pharmacy will offer PayPal and Venmo QR code technology, enabling customers to check out touch-free in all 8,200 stand-alone CVS Pharmacy locations in the U.S. The program is scheduled to roll out nationwide in Q4.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the diversity, equity and inclusion front, Stephen Wicks of BlackBusinessList.com and Deborah Biddle, Founder and Chief Consultant of The People Company, will examine the state of how DE&I strategies are executed at the store level. Reimagining and reconfiguring the physical store. The ins and outs of livestreaming.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2020

Costa Coffee is a stickler for detail, probably one of the many reasons they have been voted the UK’s favourite coffee shop for nine years running. A DIY retailer found that its stores didn’t set out their stock storage areas in the same way. The best insights are those that seem blindingly obvious once you see what the data shows.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

While we don’t know what the long-term outcome of the crisis is ultimately going to be, we wanted to make our shopping experience as easy as possible. We work with the Second Harvest Food Bank in the San Jose area where we are located. RTP: What are the greatest challenges of being both a DTC brand and one that’s sold in stores?

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V Count

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re running a brick-and-mortar business, you may want to invest in one of these point-of-sale systems. As a business owner or a store manager, you’ll face countless challenges, and turning your business into a successful one usually requires time, effort and commitment. Great for established stores.

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V Count

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re running a brick-and-mortar business, you may want to invest in one of these point-of-sale systems. As a business owner or a store manager, you’ll face countless challenges, and turning your business into a successful one usually requires time, effort and commitment. Great for established stores.

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Retail Next

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In today’s retail world, the in-store experience is more responsive and adaptable than it’s ever been before. A combination of advancing technology, the need to compete with online shopping, and modernized strategies has led to fundamental changes in stores of all kinds. These beacons can serve a variety of purposes.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Consumers today expect a better in-store shopping experience from brick-and-mortar retailers, and retailers that can give it to them will continue to thrive even in the face of ever-increasing convenience from online competitors. Delivering Exceptional Customer Experiences Collect and use your in-store data. Bad retail is dead.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2024

And stay tuned next week for a special bonus entry in the series — an on-the-ground take on the smart cart shopping experience. Most notable is Amazon’s recent pullback of its own tech, with the removal of JWO from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and its plans to focus on smart carts instead at new locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2023

No retailer has the necessary manpower to provide every customer with a one-on-one conversation with a live agent during their digital shopping journey, but AI makes this a real — and potentially lucrative — possibility. This misunderstanding of pain points (and how to relieve them) applies at multiple points in the shopper journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Now that American retailers are shuttering stores and losing billions of dollars because of shrink, it is time for a sharper focus on the “journey” of another group entirely — retail criminals. Sadly, in addition to imagining how people will shop the store, designers need to think harder about how they might steal from it, too.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

Non-essential retailers around the world have been devastated by COVID-19, with many experiencing everything from store closures to unprecedented drops in sales. This applies not just to consumers but to workers returning to retail stores as well. Livestreaming Unlocks Massive Sales Potential. A Catalyst for Change.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, Hudson kicked off its deployment of the Flooid platform to provide a new backbone for all transactions across its 1,010 travel convenience stores and specialty retail, which includes proprietary book and tech stores, duty-free shops and food and beverage concessions.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

Retailers can bring loyalty programs to the next level by adding proximity marketing based on in-store location throughout the journey. By combining individual customers’ locations with a detailed history of their purchases, retailers can push rewards or coupons when the product is in hands’ reach.

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