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Smash-and-Grab Is Only One Part of a Retailer’s Loss Prevention Story

Retail TouchPoints

Yet despite the growing frequency of ORC, retailers would be remiss to focus their loss prevention efforts solely on these brazen, smash-and-grab scenarios. In fact, according to the 2023 National Retail Security Survey conducted by NRF, Appriss Retail and the Loss Prevention Research Council, 68.8% Similarly, 57.8%

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AI Isn’t Going Anywhere: How Retailers Plan to Deploy the Tech in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Within the larger global market, McKinsey estimates that the retail and CPG sectors have the most to gain from AI , with potential to harness the tech and drive huge improvements in operational efficiency as well as the customer and employee experience. But many of these tasks may just represent the low-hanging AI fruit.

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Newmine Helps Retailers Understand and Correct the ‘Why’ of Returns

Retail TouchPoints

The AI- and natural language processing-powered software was designed to determine the root cause of returns upstream, from planning, design and marketing to customer delivery. Newmine aims to help retailers analyze sales and returns through its Chief Returns Officer platform in order to become better informed about customer actions.

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JD Sports Powers Digital Transformation to Spur Growth in Canada

Retail TouchPoints

JD Sports , a global retailer with more than 3,000 stores worldwide, has adopted a suite of solutions designed to boost its growth in Canada, a market the retailer entered in 2021. and Livestock banners, and plans to open as many as 80 additional stores in the country over the next five years.

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

The software uses AI to help a retailer plan the introduction of new stock into a store and manage the pricing levels across its shelf life. Inventory is the second largest controllable expense and retailers are reporting back an improvement in markdown reduction losses of as much as 50 per cent through using the software to manage planning.

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Sensormatic Solutions Introduces Computer Vision Platform

Retail TouchPoints

The new offering is designed to help deploy a variety of analytics that provide real-time insights on retail-specific use cases related to shopper behavior, loss prevention, safety and security, inventory, shopper demographics and other data.

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During the Holidays, Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Feel the Impact of Retail Crime

Retail TouchPoints

Unfortunately, while larger stores often have security measures like loss prevention personnel, anti-theft sensors and other helpful solutions, those measures usually aren’t financially feasible for small and mid-sized businesses.