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2023: Ring in Retail Profits by Stopping Automated Threats

Retail TouchPoints

This was especially evident on Black Friday, when many merchants offered steep markdowns to compete. Web and API Scraping Web and API scraping are often used by competitors to undercut retailers’ pricing and promotions. Fake Account Creation Bots can create fake accounts at scale which are then used to abuse retail promotions.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

Get ready, get excited, retailers and customers alike, the 2D barcode, a compact square label with splotches and spaces that encode up to 350X more data than a traditional UPC (4,000 characters) will have a significant impact on managing the business and delivering better customer experiences. alongside a large QR code.

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Google, Accenture Deepen Relationship to Help Retailers Harness and Optimize Their Data

Retail TouchPoints

Accenture’s AI.Retail platform — which helps retailers better utilize data and artificial intelligence to optimize common operations such as customer acquisition, pricing and promotions, assortment and supply chain — can now be deployed on Google Cloud.

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Let’s Move from Fast Promising to Smart Promising

Retail TouchPoints

As they begin to address these expectations, many retail IT teams are finding that the process is costly and complex. Ecommerce merchant teams invest significant time in analyzing factors such as free shipping thresholds, promotions, pricing and markdowns.

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The Order Fulfillment Process in 2022 and Beyond

Retalon

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Jump Start 2022 Holiday Preparations

Independent Retailer

Total search volume for “Halloween” from mid-August to early November even rivaled key Christmas keywords in December, suggesting an exciting opportunity for merchants this year. Whether you decide to promote your loyalty program, increased rewards, sales, or discounts, you need to stay competitive in order to stay in the game.

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How to Get Results from your Big Data with Retail AI

Retalon

Businesses collect more data than ever before and from every aspect of the supply and demand chain—logistics; vendor compliancy/lead times; POS data; inventory levels; traffic cameras; prices; markdowns; consumer behavior; demand forecasts; and more. How will a promotion during a seasonal peak affect the uplift in demand?