Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

The retailer “will be removing physical media and updating our mobile, digital imaging, computing, tablets and smart home departments,” said Barry. “We Second, we will test our ability to close a large format store and open a small format store nearby, thereby maximizing physical store retention through convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The chatter of the store “being dead” is evolving from belief that the physical store is fading amid the shift to digital, to seeing that it’s the role of the store that is changing — and a vital one at that. Still, many retailers are opening fewer and often smaller stores with increasing expectations for top-notch experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This is Part 1 of The Holiday Readiness Series , which will feature tactical tips and takeaways from experts that retailers can still apply to rev up their sales results. Check out the Retail Strategy & Planning Series on-demand. The same is true in retail with BOPIS experiences,” Walker added. “If

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Despite the convenience of online, consumers are attracted by the social and immersive experience of physical stores. However, post-pandemic physical shopping is a different beast to the olden days. The physical and digital must be merged to offer the best service and most seamless experience to the customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SES-imagotag offers the VUSION Retail IoT Cloud Platform, which aims to help retailers strike a balance between physical and digital retail in a way that eliminates waste, improves operations and caters to the needs and values of shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. In the face of these challenging factors, the stars are aligning to deliver another “unprecedented” holiday season for the retail industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2024

One industry with a particularly negative environmental impact is the retail industry. What RFID Technology will do for the Retail Sector RFID stands for “radio frequency identification.” One of the most environmentally destructive aspects of the retail industry is the supply chain.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Selling online in the US can be lucrative, as many Australian retailers and brands are discovering. Baby steps Daly says retailers eyeing the US market should not try to create a “one size fits all experience”. Don’t outsource your inventory and localise your entire website on day one. Begin with baby steps, she advocates.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 1, 2024

With retail crime rising across the United States, many retailers are frustrated by the challenge of curbing the effects of organized and ad-hoc theft. As a result, they’re ramping up their use of physical and visual deterrents — often in the form of locked cases — in the hopes that hardening targets will remedy the issue.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Luxury fashion retailer Oroton Group says its profit more than tripled on the back of higher sales and stricter cost and inventory management in FY23. The post Oroton trebles profit after rigorous cost-control measures appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. The company booked a net profit of $8.2 times from last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lululemon is in the process of rolling out a cloud-based RFID inventory management solution to its 600+ stores globally that will help the retailer optimize its in-store product assortments. Having a fully mobile cloud solution in our stores greatly contributes to this experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sam’s Club is embarking on an ambitious expansion of its physical footprint, beginning with five new fulfillment and distribution centers opening this year — the first, in Georgia, in Q3 2023. The retailer also completed a chainwide rollout of inventory-scanning robots in October 2022. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

The retail landscape has dramatically changed over the last few years, and one emerging trend appears to be here to stay. Phygital retail experiences, in which physical elements and technology coexist, offer opportunities to bring customers closer to your brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2022

enter new geographies and develop its store and inventory management software application suite, StoreOS. The technology aims to enable frictionless checkout, real-time inventory tracking and other technologies. “By The investment was led by Singapore investment firm Temasek and 83North.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Retailers need to handle inventory in stores and distribution centers, keep an eye on both digital and physical shelves and keep costs down with efficient logistics and routing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

Connecting the world of physical objects into a smart network, IoT technology brings new business opportunities for retailers and provides data-driven insights for decision-makers. According to Grand View Research , the global IoT retail market was valued at $42.38 Inventory management. from 2023 to 2030.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Blue Yonder has introduced three SaaS-based Commerce microservices, with the goal of helping retailers navigate global supply chain disruptions, demand forecasting and omnichannel ordering habits.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Retailers need to ensure shoppers always have access to the product they want, where they want it, or else they risk losing loyalty in a difficult environment. Advanced RFID capabilities have been implemented in 40 stores and the retailer is in the process of rolling them out chainwide. But if you look at sizes, that varies a lot.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

Square is revolutionising the way small and medium-sized retailers can manage inventory and payments through a combination of next-generation hardware and custom-built software. All of the retailer’s sales are automatically tracked in one place allowing inventory across all channels to be updated the instant a sale occurs.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2023

According to Premier Retail CEO Richard Murray, Peter Alexander was described as a heritage and aspirational brand that would use all the levers at its disposal to navigate the challenging economic climate, and cost of living pressures. He highlighted the fact that sales for the two brands comprise about half of Premier Retail’s $905.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

Luxury retail brands are making sustainability a priority more than ever before. As luxury retail continues to move with the times, increasing sustainability is sure to become an even bigger part of their strategies for success going forward. Sustainability can be highly data-driven.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2022

With industries around the world showing interest in the metaverse, retail leaders are facing the exciting opportunity to follow suit and provide customers with the ease of online shopping without compromising the benefits of the physical experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Blue Yonder has launched several microservices under its Luminate Commerce portfolio, with the goal of helping retailers meet the last mile demands of their customers. The individually deployable, augmentative microservices are designed to improve the shopper experience by helping retailers ensure order and fulfillment accuracy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

That’s a major reason the rollout coincided with a network refresh for the retailer’s U.S. The retailer chose the Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform), delivered via HPE GreenLake for Aruba’s network-as-a-service (NaaS) offering. and Canadian stores that is slated to be complete by late 2022 or early 2023. Test, Test and Test Again.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I think we’re building a pretty broad grocery network across online and physical, and you’re going to see us continue to work on it.” The ecommerce giant already has the infrastructure in place for a strong digital grocery offering; it just needs to find the right approach to the physical side. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

that delivers pretty much any item to a consumer with science fiction-style immediacy, retailers remain bound by 21 st -century delivery methods. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Until someone invents a Star Trek -style replicator (“Tea. Unemployment is at 3.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The site, aimed at bringing off-price inventory from Simon’s malls online, now features more than 300 brands and as of last September, sales were up 100% year over year. Retail TouchPoints: What makes SPO stand out in the sea of other marketplaces? In either case, why don’t you [use SPO] as an extra valve for that inventory ?”

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With a dropshipping business model, you can move products directly from the manufacturer to the consumer without having to handle inventory or storage yourself. Essentially, it lets you sell products online without physically stocking them. Low Start-up Costs With dropshipping, there is no need to invest in inventory upfront.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the ever-evolving retail landscape, technology has swiftly moved from being a novelty to becoming the linchpin of both operational and customer-centric strategies. Today’s consumers might browse products online and then feel, try and buy them in physical stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2023

For as long as shrink has been an issue in retail, it’s primarily been tied to human mistakes or crime. These reasons are why retailers consistently turn to technology for help. Retailers are also testing autonomous delivery vehicles on the roads and drones in the air to avoid wrongly delivered items. billion in 2020.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

However, as lockdowns and movement restrictions become more rare, what does this mean for the future of physical stores? Physical retail is back in a big way, but don’t forget about online. And Country Road is taking notice. For us, it’s about figuring out what the consumer is looking for.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2023

per cent fall in FY23 reflected increased online shopping when physical stores were closed due to Covid-related restrictions during the previous comparable period. CEO John King said the business continues to “tightly” manage costs, inventory and cash to ensure a strong balance sheet as it begins its new calendar year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

The ever-shifting landscape of retail makes any type of prediction questionable, but there are a few hidden trends that are shaping the future of how we buy. This hyper-localized approach personalizes the shopping experience, while the technology behind the scenes refreshes the inventory to match local demand.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

In that department, this year, Cadbury dominated visibility, doing an exceptional job getting stock on the floor and demonstrating, in the process, why visibility should be the number one goal for brands looking to succeed in retail. But, in examining the chocolate wars of 2024, several other retailing trends emerge.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

The retailer’s stores will remain open and its ecommerce operations, including the Pearl by David’s platform and vendor marketplace, will continue operating during the proceedings. The wedding retailer also expects to file bankruptcy proceedings in Canada and in the UK for its subsidiary there.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

The rise of e-commerce has had a major impact on retail supply chains. Retailers are now investing significant resources into logistics, deploying the latest inventory management systems, automating warehouses and hiring hundreds of hardworking staff in an effort to pick, pack and ship online orders as quickly as possible.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The rollout of 5G has the potential to transform the retail industry by ushering in a new era of connectivity and experience. The advancements it supports should alleviate many of the challenges that retailers have endured during the pandemic. By creating deeper, personalized experiences, retailers will be able to increase sales.

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