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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

While the report primarily focuses on how AI can optimize store layouts and marketing strategies, there is an underlying message on data security. The report discusses how digital solutions like AI and machine learning not only enhance operational efficiency but also fortify cybersecurity measures.

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Circle K Will Retrofit Stores To Pilot Autonomous Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

In the pilot store, shoppers can pay via a smartphone app for a completely touchless experience, or pay with cash or a card at a kiosk or traditional POS station.

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Walking the Line: How a Post-Pandemic Retail Hybrid Might Make the Best of Both Worlds

Retail TouchPoints

The in-store experience remains a crucial part of consumer expectations. While retailers might condense their space and concentrate their resources, smart brands know the competitive edge in-person service brings.

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Breaking Barriers: How Brick-and-Mortar Retailers can Deliver Exceptional Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

And if you’re a brick-and-mortar retailer that wants Sephora-sized success, here are three things you can do to deliver the type of exceptional in-store experiences your customers expect. Collect and Use Your In-Store Data Retailers often have access to more information about their stores than they realize.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

Sadly, in addition to imagining how people will shop the store, designers need to think harder about how they might steal from it, too. That means asking questions like: What more can be done to deter theft using store layout, customer flow, shelf height, mirrors, lighting and the placement of gondolas, merchandise and security cameras?

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Stop out of stocks denting your profits this holiday season

I Vend

Effective inventory management leads to lower overall inventory costs, fewer lost sales due to stock-outs, and greater customer satisfaction – and ultimately more profit. Point of sale store operations – customers want fast and friction-free checkout, and retailers need to know what has been sold.