Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Prepping click-and-collect orders, picking and packing ship-from-store orders, managing store-to-store transfers, etc. — And process returns of stuff people don’t want! They likely need to host events, too, since store events are all the rage. Keep the stores tidy. It’s a lot harder than it sounds.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

retailers will be able to accept contactless customer payments on their Apple iPhones via its new Tap to Pay functionality. Consumers will be able to use their credit and debit cards, Apple Pay or other digital wallets to purchase items, with no additional POS hardware or payment terminal required to complete transactions.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Sam’s Club is piloting technology designed to address one of the retailer’s biggest customer pain points: waiting in line at the store exit for an associate to check their receipts against the items in their cart. Additionally, AI operating in the background is designed to continually speed up the process.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

While autonomous stores and technological innovation are high on the retail agenda, the infrastructure and operational efforts that enable them aren’t often given the same broad attention. Grocery retail is rooted in a traditional brick-and-mortar business model, with many longstanding and comprehensive internal processes.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2024

They’ve been shaped/scarred by not one but two global economic traumas — the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the COVID pandemic — and they’ve grown up with social media playing an increasingly large (and loud) role in shaping culture, including how these consumers shop, research and purchase products and services. What are you listening to?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

million debt service payment on municipal bonds sold to help finance the venture, due to insufficient funds. The mall also had missed the previous payment deadline for the same reason in August 2022. Requests for comment from American Dream and its owner, Triple Five Worldwide , had not been received at press time.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will implement an orderly wind-down of its businesses while “conducting a limited marketing process” to find one or more buyers for some or all of its assets. These efforts were aimed at buying time to find a buyer, but no interested party materialized.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. Retail ‘winners’ were already doing this at much higher levels than others, even before COVID,” said Buzek. of all in-store sales and the GDP of Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Autonomous convenience store retailer Wundermart is expanding its operations, with plans to open more than 10,000 checkout-free stores in a partnership with contactless checkout company AiFi. Smaller stores have less space to work with, which means smaller products selections where every SKU counts.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2025

GoodRx has streamlined the online prescription purchase process, launching the experience with employee-owned Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee. Hy-Vee has been undergoing both a digital and physical transformation of its operations in recent months.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

What a difference two years make: Dollar General was enthusiastic enough about self-checkout in June 2022 that it announced trialing 100% self-checkout at 200 stores. The retailer is focused on improving the store experience, where “everything begins and ends for our customers,” said Vasos during the May 2024 call.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2023

Any retailer that’s attempted to provide pickup and delivery services knows how fraught (not to mention expensive) they can be. Yet Walgreens has so much confidence in its ability to quickly pick and deliver orders that it’s now offering 30-minute store pickups and one-hour delivery, the latter with a money-back guarantee.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2024

In fact, well-established Fortune 500 grocery chains could be throwing away tens of millions of dollars on bad substitution returns, refunds and customer service calls related to these issues. But with this abundance comes a challenge: How do stores ensure that they match the perfect alternative for every customer, at scale?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

The retailer’s stores will remain open and its ecommerce operations, including the Pearl by David’s platform and vendor marketplace, will continue operating during the proceedings. The retailer did not specify how many stores would be affected across the country, but at least 15 will be in its home state of Pennsylvania.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless technology has found a welcoming home in sports stadiums, a trend that will continue this fall, with a total of 14 new stores joining those already in place at Lumen Field in Seattle and Commanders Field outside Washington, D.C., as well as Baltimore’s first JWO store at M&T Bank Stadium.

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MARCH 20, 2025

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

This, combined with workforce shortages, has caused airports to move more toward automation, with self-service check-in kiosks, baggage drops and mini stores. The growing exposure of travelers to self-service options has led to consumers preferring them as they are much more convenient than previous models.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The convenience store experience just got more convenient at Chartw ells , a division of Compass Group that operates thousands of stores on college and corporate campuses. The retailer recently debuted its first store to be retrofitted with checkout-free technology at the University of Houston campus.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Think food services, retail and personal and laundry services, for instance. At the same time, the Cox Small Business Survey found that 90% of minority-owned small business owners have high hopes regarding growth in the next year. Reasons cited were that the country’s 1.1 Although disparities continue, certain movements help.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

This applies not just to consumers but to workers returning to retail stores as well. From payments to delivery, processes have been scrutinised to reduce the need to touch people, products and PIN pads. Nikki Baird is the VP of Retail Innovation at Aptos , a leading retail enterprise solution provider.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Thirteen years after Woolworths introduced self-service checkouts to Australian supermarket shoppers, discount grocer Aldi has bowed to the demand for quick and convenient self-serve transactions at its stores. I suspect they’ll progress that across their fleet of stores in the coming years,” Mortimer said.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

billion investment in omnichannel growth, the furniture retailer is planning seven new Plan and Order Point stores with pickup locations this year; the eighth store, in Santa Monica, Calif., Building off a $2.2 will be solely a pickup point. Other major developments from Ikeas FY 2024, which ended Aug.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using the Amazon “Just Walk Out” technology, Grubhub Campus has introduced cashierless checkout at convenience stores at Loyola University Maryland. Students, faculty and staff scan a QR code to enter the store, pick their items and leave, with the payment deducted from their student meal plan or other stored payment methods.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2020

Store closing sales began at 19 of Lord & Taylor’s 38 locations that day. In May, sources told Reuters that Lord & Taylor was waiting until its stores were allowed to reopen from COVID-19 shutdowns to file for bankruptcy, so that it could bring in the public for those sales.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 23, 2025

M&S has issued an update to customers following a technical glitch which left shoppers across the UK unable to use contactless payments or click-and-collect services over the Bank holiday weekend. ” Machin noted that its stores remained open, and that the retailer’s website and app continued to operate as normal.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

As part of the ONE RETAIL approach, we combine a variety of consumer journeys into one and put our smartphone app at the center of the entire shopping process,” explained Ekaterina Sokolova, CFO of M.Video Eldorado Group in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We Machine Learning-Powered Analytics Now Central to Demand Forecasting.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

L’Occitane has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will close at least 23 of its 166 U.S. stores, according to court papers. The retailer’s parent company and its international operations, as well as the ELEMIS and LimeLife brands, will be unaffected by the move. by reducing its rent payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

The basic service that a point-of-sale (POS) device provides checking out customers is essential to any retailers functioning. Lee Holman: First, full disclosure: my first foray into retail was in the early 1980s, working at a Peoples Drugstore in White Oak, Md. non-mechanical) systems were introduced in retail?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2021

The M&A process is highly involved, and acquirers are becoming increasingly sophisticated. We advise our clients to begin the process at least 12 months in advance of their anticipated exit date so they can do everything possible to achieve the best results at a potential sale. That methodical preparation takes time.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

With refreshed apps, streamlined loyalty programs and experimental presences in-store and in the metaverse, retailers have gone above and beyond to entice and retain customers. Similarly, Lowes Foods has prioritized unique experiences, opting for entertainment-based enhancements to its 80 full-service supermarkets.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We, and many Black consumers,] find ourselves shopping at mom-and-pop beauty stores, because they have what we need they have the products, I see myself, they understand me compared to no effort made by the bigger retailers to make them feel comfortable with the products they need. My mom still has [beauty] staples she uses.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

Retasmart is designed to enable retailers to unify all channels and experiences in one solution, allowing them to solve challenges related to inventory management, customer engagement, payment options, reporting and analytics, and multichannel retailing — all from a single platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

Increasingly, however, their focus has turned to the large amounts of data processed at the “edge,” and not just transactional information: inventory, sensor, capacity, video, performance — across tens to hundreds of devices in each store. Edge systems process data in real time.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

The newest generation of artificial intelligence (AI) would seem to be tailor-made for the behind-the-scenes operational complexity of today’s retail organization — and in many ways it is. Everything Comes Back to the Data As promising as AI can be in retail operations, it also carries risks. said Thota.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2024

Joining the competition in 2022, Cotti Coffee has been rapidly expanding its presence within China and globally, with a network of 7000 stores across 28 countries and regions, which makes it the world’s fourth-largest coffee chain by number of stores. We have also iterated on store formats.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

That’s why the retailer and mobile service provider uses multiple technology solutions to create a personalized shopping experience at scale. Retail TouchPoints: Many consumers begin their purchasing process online but end up in brick-and-mortar stores. How does Verizon facilitate that type of shopper journey?

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