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Australian retail’s robotic near future

Inside Retail

In recent years, robotics has emerged as a transformative force in global retail, and the Australian market is noexception. Potential Australian examples Coles and Woolworths: Both major Australian supermarkets have been exploring various technologies, including robotic cleaning and automated inventory management.

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How to Design Your Retail Space With Security in Mind

Retail TouchPoints

Depending on if your location is accessible from the street, operating inside of a mall, a supermarket or even an airport, your security design should reflect this location. When designing your retail space, where and how you use security cameras is key to loss prevention.

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‘Not acceptable’: Drakes director exposes rising cost of retail theft

Inside Retail

Drakes Supermarkets is losing around $10 million each year largely due to theft in stores, according to company director John-Paul Drake. Our intel has told us that these are being sold through flea markets, through social marketplaces, and, from what we can gather, they’re being swapped for drugs. “We Global problem.

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Benefits of People Counting and In-store Visitor Analytics for Supermarkets

V Count

Your average shopper nowadays is more educated than ever —in the sense that they know what they need and want— meaning supermarkets and grocery shops must learn to adapt and leverage new technologies to help them understand what customers want and meet the modern shoppers’ demands.

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More than plexiglass: Experts weigh in on rising retail crime rate in US

Inside Retail

Ladd noted that Whole Foods Market, CVS Pharmacy, Aldi US and Save A Lot have also closed stores in Chicago and other locations because of continued losses and rising crime. Walmart is cited as a prime example. Shoplifting has been costing it millions of dollars in lost sales, and this year, it will close 20 stores in 11 states.

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Benefits of People Counting and In-store Visitor Analytics for Supermarkets

V Count

Your average shopper nowadays is more educated than ever —in the sense that they know what they need and want— meaning supermarkets and grocery shops must learn to adapt and leverage new technologies to help them understand what customers want and meet the modern shoppers’ demands.

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While tech giants have their heads in the clouds, this is why other retailers don’t need to follow suit

A1 Retail

As counterintuitive as it is, we all know losses are an accepted norm in retailing. Factored into the bottom line, as sales increase for stores, so will the losses of product inventory. Loss prevention teams call this inevitable outcome “external shrinkage”. The industry limits. Meeting customer demand.