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How UrbanStems Leverages AI to Manage Peak-Season Customer Service

Retail TouchPoints

Dealing with the Emotions Involved in Gift-Giving That tone is important given the nature of UrbanStems’ products. The solution can tag it as such,” said McDonald. Among other things, this requires UrbanStems to increase its customer service staff from approximately 16 people to 200 during these high-pressure periods.

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How RFID Powers Retail: Past, Present and Future

Retail TouchPoints

Unlike any prior recession or natural disaster, the coronavirus outbreak has steered the retail industry into uncertain and unchartered territory. Titled the Chain Integration Project Proof of Concept , or CHIP, the study confirmed that participants could share item-level data encoded in RFID tags on a blockchain network.

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AI among the hot topics at this year’s Industry Day

Mass Relators

She also talked about how the company’s strengths in logistics and the supply chain have helped the company respond to natural disasters —supporting its associates and communities in times of crisis — while also allowing it to help mitigate the impact of inflation on its customers. “I

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

Retail Geek

Metadata on each of the items with respect to Howard thinking about tagging, there’s a lot there’s a lot of players out there that we’re evaluating right now and we watched with. [44:42] For retail versus direct to Consumer and so when I got there or there was a there was a. [7:43]

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Top CPG and Retail Trend Predictions to Watch in 2023

Rangeme

Accelerated by COVID-19, disruptions such as shipping delays, scarcity of raw materials, changes in product demand, global wars and natural disasters, and talent availability will continue to be ongoing problems. Natural and clean take a dip. Check out ECRM’s several upcoming Private Label Sessions. Supply chain resilience .