Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Like most retailers of a certain age, The Paper Store debuted in brick-and-mortar — in this case a modest family-run newsstand in Maynard, Mass. that opened in 1964.

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2025

Our store team is armed with best-in-class tools like our point of sale, which we call Point of Everything (POE), to help make the shopping experience more convenient — from styling advice to frame adjustments and everything in between.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

1WorldSync’s 2024 Consumer Product Content Benchmark report revealed that 64% of shoppers have scanned a QR code on a product while shopping in-store. With a quick click on a smartphone, these customers have accessed hidden content, exclusive deals and lightning-fast checkouts. The result?

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2024

On average, nearly 20% of annual retail sales happen in November and December, and the impact of a breach can be disruptive to the business and brand. We are approaching one of the most important and riskiest times of the year for retailers.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Freedom Furniture is a well-known Australian homewares retailer thats been operating since 1981 and now has 47 stores across the country. But the merchant was suffering from a bit of an image problem that made it seem fusty and old-fashioned, a situation that led to a companywide turnaround plan initiated in 2020.

Kiosk

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

If you stop to think about it, we must be a little crazy to expect so many things from store associates today. When your store is full of associates who love the brand and live it, they will draw in customers. They need to keep track of what’s new, what’s unique to their location and what just went on sale.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

State Farm Arena , home of the Atlanta Hawks NBA team, has opened a Hawks Express cashierless checkout store powered by AiFi and Verizon. Customers enter the store, select their items and exit, with purchases being automatically processed through their mobile payment method.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

With enhanced speed, accuracy and adaptability, voice picking optimization enables retailers to fulfill orders more effectively, whether they’re coming through mobile apps, ecommerce sites or in-store point-of-sale systems.

Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

The basic service that a point-of-sale (POS) device provides checking out customers is essential to any retailers functioning. However, the POS itself the software, connections to other retail systems and the increasingly varied hardware has become a less prominent part of the merchants tech stack.

Merchant Services

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 19, 2025

In today’s digital-first marketplace, consumer expectations for flawless shopping experiences, whether in-store or online, have reached unprecedented heights and are putting pressure on retailers to provide an “always on” business model.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

The cashless convenience stores will have a community focus, supporting local partners and minority- and women-owned businesses by featuring their products and other healthy options for student consumers.

Planning

Small Biz Trends

JULY 28, 2025

Shopify integrates e-commerce with in-person sales, providing a synchronized inventory system and extensive app options for tailored POS experiences. Square: Best for Budget-Conscious Businesses When you’re running a small business on a tight budget, finding an affordable point-of-sale (POS) system can be crucial for your success.

Merchant Services

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2025

Even though more than half ( 56% ) of retailers surveyed by KPMG completed a major payments modernization program within the past year, even more 83% already are modernizing their payment infrastructure, or are planning to do so in the new future.

Payment Services

VMS

JUNE 25, 2025

So it’s worth noting that during today’s economic turmoil, Ingka Group (Malmo, Sweden) – the largest IKEA franchisee with 400 stores and 174 plan-and-order points of sale in 31 countries – announced it is halving the price of its restaurant meals Monday through Friday, with children eating for free, in 15 countries.

Home Furnishings

Retail Assist

JULY 22, 2025

It brings structure, automation and a single source of truth to your store operations/workflows, so your team can stay organised, work more efficiently and scale with confidence. Missed deadlines, duplicated effort and things slipping through the cracks. That’s where an ERP system comes in.

Inventory Management

I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

If youre an ambitious mid-sized retailer, youre probably aware of retail management software, and understand that it can be a powerful tool to help you automate and streamline your operations. You know that its more than simply a point of sale, and that it offers a comprehensive platform for managing the entire retail operation.

Management

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What’s more, point-of-sale data can provide general evidence about the sales impact of those efforts. The power of in-store media in driving sales has long been documented.

Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2025

Employees at a Barnes & Noble store in Bloomington, Ill. have ratified a new three -year contract under the aegis of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), joining unionized workers at three New York City bookstores, including the companys flagship Union Square location.

Department Stores

M19 Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Ace Retail Holdings Selects Mi9 Retail as its Enterprise Retail Partner Fort Lauderdale, FL December 16, 2024 Through a comprehensive selection process, Ace Retail Holdings (ARH) has selected Mi9 Retail (Mi9) as its Enterprise Retail Partner for Merchandising and Point of Sale.

Merchandise Store

I Vend

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a retailer, you rely on your POS technology for store operations, and you may well have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as well or be considering one. But rather than seeing them as two essential but separate – entities, the retailers who get the most from their POS and ERP systems are those that integrate them.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The point-of-sale (POS) system has always been the one truly indispensable technology for any merchant, large or small.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

Fortunately, the point of sale is a great place to receive input. The point of sale is a great place for retailers to seek feedback that will enhance the customer experience throughout the store. Similarly, retailers can add lottery capabilities to their point-of-sale touch points.

Checkout

Small Biz Trends

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A point-of-sale system is one of the best tools for small businesses looking to accept payments. Point-of-sale systems enable business owners to be more agile with their payment processing and forego using the cash drawer. What Is a Point of Sale POS System? Best Overall Point of Sale Systems.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Additionally, by leveraging the solution’s cloud technology, Sainsbury’s will gain access to AI-powered real-time data and analytics for sales analysis, estimates of future store performance, associate productivity and cash management.

Promotions

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The first is point-of-sale product activation by which only products that are legitimately purchased are activated. “We see a future where technologies like Project Unlock can help the entire retail ecosystem create a great environment for our customers.”. Visualization of how Project Unlock RFID tags will work.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

The premium apparel retailer operates in 128 countries at approximately 6,800 points of sale as well as online in 59 countries. All Hugo Boss stores will be equipped with the Nedap iD Cloud store app, designed to provide fast and regular stock counts, efficient replenishment and smart refill suggestions.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Paper Store promises top-notch customer service in its 100+ brick-and-mortar stores, with associates helping shoppers choose from its widely varied assortment of apparel, accessories, jewelry, water bottles and even packaged food from Stonewall Kitchen (along with paper, pens and school supplies, of course).

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Vitamin Shoppe will update its point-of-sale and promotions capabilities chainwide with solutions from Jumpmind. The retailer will deploy Jumpmind Commerce, a cloud-native, mobile-first POS solution, and Jumpmind Promote, for unified promotions across both physical and digital experiences.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning retailers from offering any type of plastic bag to customers at the point of sale. The new law, scheduled to take effect Jan.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Stripe will be the first payment platform to offer the service to business customers, including the Shopify Point of Sale app this spring. Tap to Pay on iPhone will be available to participating payment platforms and their app developer partners to leverage in software developer kits (SDKs) in an upcoming iOS software beta.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

In the point of sale (POS) space, three AI applications show particular promise: Headcount and Heat Mapping in Brick-and-Mortar Retail Insights from shopper behavior data are valuable – and financially impactful – to retailers.

Merchant Services

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Associates will need to install the mobile Point of Sale App on their iPhones to use it. Morgan Payments powers the Tap to Pay on iPhone service, which can accept credit and debit cards, Apple Pay and NFC-enabled digital wallets.

Merchant Services

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

AI models that can coordinate video feeds, RFID and point-of-sale transaction logs, all processed at the edge in real time, can help address price tampering and ensure that customers leave with the products the store believes they have. There’s also the matter of securing the computer hardware that runs the store operations.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Retailers have gotten better about thinking about simple things like power accessibility or creating WiFi shadows around fixtures and things like that, but there are still far too many unintended consequences that come out of store design because they did not think through tech requirements up front.

Loss Prevention

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Yet in the midst of taking hundreds of stores through a complex closing and reopening process, Hudson made a daring decision — not only to continue the deployment of the Flooid platform but to accelerate it. “We We were already on a very demanding timeline to implement the system across more than 2,000 points of sale in the U.S.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Store managers will have the flexibility to open more staffed lanes and set self-checkout hours that are appropriate for their locations, although Express Self-Checkout will be available during the store’s busiest shopping times.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The company supports nearly $8 billion in gross merchandise value, more than 20,000 online points of sale and $10 trillion in product listings annually. This is the 14th warehouse in Cart.com’s growing network of omnichannel fulfillment centers, which now encompasses 8 million square feet of space across the U.S.

Fulfillment