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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. Current customer Albertsons Cos.

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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

And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. For example, a customer can scan a 2D barcode on a package of pasta sauce and instantly view ingredients, allergens, recipes and promotions. alongside a large QR code.

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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. Additionally, you can configure different promise speeds for different categories, as well as determine where the promise is displayed, such as on the product detail page or in the shopping cart.

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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

85 percent of customers will not shop with a retailer again after having had a poor delivery experience. It may only be August, but July’s Amazon Prime Day event proved the holiday shopping season is already here. How Inflation Will Impact the Holiday Shopping Season. Top Findings and Predictions. Consumers throughout the U.S.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

Laura Illanes, a 22-year-old student at the University of South Carolina Upstate, said she gets six free pieces of clothing from Shein each month for promoting the brand to her 36,000 Instagram followers. If you can’t move all of the inventory then markdowns are required which eats into sales per sq. and ultimately profitability.