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The Rise of Micro Markets in Airports

Retail TouchPoints

The travel and tourism industry went through a shock in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to a decrease in passenger traffic and significant economic challenges for airports. This, combined with workforce shortages, has caused airports to move more toward automation, with self-service check-in kiosks, baggage drops and mini stores.

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Can Self-Service Kiosks Offer Support In Today’s Retail Conditions?

Frank Mayer

While more shoppers return to stores, retail self-service kiosks offer the safe contactless experience and endless aisle options they now seek. Before we dive into how self-service kiosks can assist retail, though, it’s important to address the more pressing concern about the industry first. The Retail Elephant in the Room.

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McDonald’s outage underlines the risks of retailers becoming too reliant on tech

Inside Retail

McDonald’s mobile app; its human-less, order-taking kiosks; its digitised menus that change based on trends, the weather and more; and even its generative AI — together, these enable McDonald’s to eke out additional sales and efficiencies worth billions of dollars to the company, which has 40,000 locations in roughly 100 countries. .”

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Robots, RFID tags and an incubator area: Inside Decathlon’s new Data Lab

Inside Retail

The automation of laborious and manual tasks such as inventory management through the development of new technologies in the Data Lab allows our Decathlon teammates to do what they find most meaningful – fostering relationships with customers. IR: Can you tell us what is involved in the partnership with Conexus Studio?

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Beyond Click & Collect: True omnichannel retail in 2024

I Vend

CAGR between 2020 and 2027 taking it to a global value of US $16.9 iVend’s Retail Management Solution iVend helps enterprise retailers run efficiently and effectively. In the physical world, there are established stores, pop up stores, kiosks, collection lockers and collection and drop off partners.

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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

million before going public in 2020. (It It was taken private in 2022 by Durational Capital Management after struggling to turn a profit.) Bypassing intermediaries means brands control the trade margins through sales, marketing and inventory management. The brand Bonobos received multiple rounds of funding totalling $127.6

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Online vs. Offline Retail – Blurring the Line between Bricks and Clicks

Retalon

This could involve physical and online outlets, as well as kiosks, mobile apps, social media, and 3rd-party marketplaces. – Inventory management. – Price management & optimization. The key is to maintain consistency with low costs, and higher profit margins. – Promotions, event and markdowns.