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Driving the Food Retail Customer Experience with IoT Sensing-as-a-Service 

Retail TouchPoints

Between staffing shortages, rising labor costs, supply chain disruptions, heightened compliance requirements and record-high inflation, food retailers are facing a myriad of market challenges with ripple effects that directly influence consumer behaviors. A recent Wall Street Journal report indicated that nearly 70% of U.S.

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Afends opens two stores in Sydney, including CBD flagship

Inside Retail

. “Afends has a big customer base from Sydney especially in the city, we wanted to give our consumers creative cool stores that they can visit and experience the brand and see it in action,” said founders Jonathan Salfield and Declan Wise. Afends at The Galleries. Afends at The Galleries.

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How the Y2K Revival is Expanding True Religion’s Shopper Community

Retail TouchPoints

But Wells knows that to successfully acquire this coveted group of consumers while also retaining its incredibly loyal base of millennial shoppers, the brand can’t simply live in the past. Starting as a Senior Designer in 2006, he worked his way up to VP of Innovation before he left the company in 2017.

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Today, it is possible to stimulate all consumer senses online. Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Key takeaways: SETs enable brands to craft exemplary customer experiences online by appealing to consumers’ multisensory perception.

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Amazon is Moving Beyond its Own Walls Like Never Before…What Will it Mean for Retail?

Retail TouchPoints

Namely, the initial decision to open its website to third-party sellers, and the 2006 decision to offer its fulfillment facilities and capabilities (and through that the Prime service promise) to sellers. Our relationship [with sellers] has evolved over the years, and it’s not been without controversy.

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Five Pandemic-Driven Trends Reshaping Retail CX Strategy

Retail TouchPoints

Left with little choice, consumers have largely resigned themselves to waiting additional days or even weeks for their orders, but what they’ve become less willing to tolerate is a lack of information about order status. Prior to joining Linc, Stelter was the Chief Revenue Officer for Pypestream.

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Macy’s vs. HBC: Two Different Takes on the Ecommerce Spinoff

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers have moved on to a very digitally led lifestyle and mindset, whereas the retail industry, at least many legacy retailers, still think of digital commerce as separate from store commerce. . This strategy could hold water. And governance consultant Diligent expects investor activism to increase again in 2022.