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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

In addition to this timing variation, over 60% of shoppers plan to do their browsing online, yet 85% expect to buy at least one product in a store. Add it all up and it’s clear that the timing duration, and location of holiday shopping is not like the old days. Barach guides development and customer deployment of antuit.ai

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Exclusive Q&A: EY Defines 5 Post-Pandemic Consumer Segments

Retail TouchPoints

Two years later, as consumers adapted to shutdowns designed to stem the spread of COVID-19, EY recognized that the speed of consumer transformation had greatly accelerated and that new research was needed, explained Jeff Orschell, EY’s Americas Retail Leader and Global Account Leader, in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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How Korea’s big 3 department stores are killing it right now

Inside Retail

And despite the importance of hypermarkets and the rapid growth of e-commerce in tech-crazy Korea, department stores are an important and venerable part of the country’s retail tradition. If you like style and tradition, then these are your shopping destinations. Specialty stores have suffered a decline in market share, from 29.6

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Digital Is Turning Retail Into An On-Demand Model

Retail TouchPoints

That means networks must bridge the divide between the store, the data center and HQ, and can support a range of new in-store devices and infrastructures — including corporate and customer WiFi connectivity. This makes clear how radical the impact of digital transformation has been in nearly every industry.

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Kiwis ‘not served well’ by grocery duopoly, but report reactions mixed

Inside Retail

Another major issue is the inability of new retailers to be able to access competitively-priced stock from wholesalers, controlled by the duopoly. For years, this has led to convenience store operators buying stock at a Countdown or Pak’N Save store where common items can be bought in volume considerably cheaper than from wholesalers).

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[Infographic] Brick-and-Mortar Retailers (Plus Chocolate) Drive Sales on Valentine’s Day

Wiser

Many consumers prefer to pick out their flowers in person, not via a picture online, while card-shopping and candy-buying are two more purchases that are traditionally completed at brick-and-mortar retailers. Furthermore, most shopping occurs right before the holiday.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

Jason: [9:11] Yeah and I want to say I met you I think we all met on the shop dot-org board when you were at Urban later in your your tenure Urban and some of my Fondest Memories another good friend of the show Billy met who at the time was at Abercrombie is the two of you like heckling each other about like your two brands.