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How Localization is Helping CVS Position Itself as the Modern General Store

Retail TouchPoints

If you want tennis balls, you can wait for them to be delivered or you can go to a big-box sporting goods store, but if you’re on the way to the courts shouldn’t you be able to go somewhere really convenient along the way? The question becomes, how do we use technology to help us enable real localization? said Balbale.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Additionally, this reduces cloud costs and improves ad traction and purchases, while also taking privacy factors into account. They need the ability to install and have optimally running tech solutions that require minimal maintenance, which deploying at the edge can support. Likewise, very few in these centers are technology experts.

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Dollar General Hit with $1M More in OSHA Fines, Bringing Total Since 2017 to $15M

Retail TouchPoints

Dollar General is facing more than $1 million in potential penalties for workspace safety violations at four stores in Florida and Georgia that were uncovered by investigators from the U.S. federal workplace inspectors opened inspections at stores on 58th Avenue and Marion Oaks Manor in late August and September 2022.

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Why international stores are key to Costco’s future growth

Inside Retail

Store growth Of the 23 new clubs opened in 2023, 10 were outside of North America. Store growth for Costco going forward will be focused more away from the US than domestically because of decreasing opportunities for expansion at home. Costco then will be increasingly looking beyond its home base for expansion opportunities.

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Forrester Forecast: Online’s Share of U.S. Sales to Top 29% by 2029

Retail TouchPoints

Online retail of nondurable product categories (like grocery and beauty) is poised for significant expansion in the coming years,” said Jitender Miglani, Principal Analyst at Forrester and lead author of the report in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. online retail sales — and 10% of all retail sales, both digital and physical.

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In the Wake of ‘Returnageddon’ Retailers Seek New Solutions to an Age-Old Problem

Retail TouchPoints

Poma advised brands to put in place a returns solution that offers consumers the same amount of control they have throughout other parts of the shopping process, adding that retailers should look at the return interaction not as the end, but as a chance to continue the relationship. “A That number was even higher in January 2021. “

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

As an example, in previous years, many emerging brands had the advantage of securing national distribution at major retailers like Walmart that were open to taking risks with lesser-known brands. Brad Godwin is the SVP of Partnerships at Shopkick , A Trax Company.

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