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Maximize Holiday Sales with These Essential Merchandise Store Tips

Small Biz Trends

Leverage Marketing Strategies: Utilize social media for promotions and local advertising to boost visibility and attract potential customers during the holiday season. Analyze Post-Holiday Sales Data: Review sales performance to identify trends, customer preferences, and effective marketing strategies for future planning.

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How Localization is Helping CVS Position Itself as the Modern General Store

Retail TouchPoints

The competitive landscape surrounding each store also is a critical facet of how the store will be merchandised. Stores near a hospital will feature different inventory, and different placements, in the front store than locations that have a neighboring grocery store or those near an apartment complex, for example.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

While 7-Eleven is at the forefront of inventive uses for vision AI in the convenience retail market, we are also observing interest and adoption of vision AI for supermarket retailers for resource reallocation, to mirror each store’s unique ebb and flow of operations and foot traffic throughout the day.

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How IoT is Transforming Digital Signage in Retail

Retail TouchPoints

These insights help businesses make informed decisions, whether in marketing, customer service or inventory management. For example, using facial recognition software and smart cameras, stores can capture anonymized data about customer demographics such as age, gender and even mood.

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‘Retail is a combination of creativity and analytics’: H&M’s Linda Li 

Inside Retail

Since joining H&M in 2014, Li has worked her way through several different roles at the Swedish-born accessories and apparel brand, including merchandising, store development and e-commerce, to her job as head of customer activation and marketing for H&M Americas.

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S&P Global Downgrades Saks’ Credit Rating, Calls $600 Million Financing Deal ‘Tantamount to a Default’

Retail TouchPoints

We believe the company’s market position will weaken as competitors with greater financial capacity expand their business operations,” Carvalho wrote. Overdue payments, borrowing base constraints and seasonal inventory building led to a decline in the availability under the company’s $1.8 billion.

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In-Store Retail Media: Focus on the Shopper, Not the CPM

Retail TouchPoints

The rapid growth of retail media is now shining a slightly different lens on the store, as retailers seek to expand their menu of performance-based advertising opportunities by providing access to the location that still accounts for 90% of all packaged goods sales. Is it feasibly scalable?