Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2021

GIANT has added frictionless just walk out technology at a grab-and-go convenience store located at its Philadelphia ecommerce fulfillment center. It’s a particularly relevant capability for a location like this, where team members would otherwise need to travel off site to purchase food products.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2020

We want a wide variety of purchasing choices, seamless integration between online and offline shopping, frictionless checkout, and (most importantly for many) rapid deliveries. Similarly, the likes of Walmart and Target provide flexible fulfillment options like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS) paired with convenient curbside pickup.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sam’s Club is embarking on an ambitious expansion of its physical footprint, beginning with five new fulfillment and distribution centers opening this year — the first, in Georgia, in Q3 2023. As we open new clubs in new locations, we’ll continue to innovate so that our members shop and save whether in person or online,” said McLay.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

To understand why, we have to delve into the evolution of order fulfillment. BOPIS is great but smart people got together and figured out different ways to do online order fulfillment. For all of these new fulfillment types, the same small team that was handling the BOPIS volume is now being asked to handle all of these new orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This trend has already become evident with curbside pickup, which has become one of the fastest-growing models within fulfillment. Despite these issues, curbside pickup allows retailers to maximize all parts of their location, from sidewalk to parking lot. But implementation hasn’t been easy on retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Walmart will test combining store/fulfillment center locations at four existing stores, using them as test beds for new technology, digital tools and physical enhancements. The stores will focus on implementing new tools that can help speed up both customer service and order fulfillment. in a statement. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Nicholas believes that to make store fulfillment a truly profitable initiative, retailers need to find new ways for their tech, operations and design teams to collaborate.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Labor shortages, stressed supply chains and a major emphasis on ecommerce have turned fulfillment into one of the biggest challenges retailers will face in the 2021 holiday season. With so much at stake, retailers must get fulfillment right or risk being left behind. Store-Based Fulfillment Is Key, but the Right Tools Must Be in Place.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For consumers, grocery shopping has become a multi-location event, with shoppers visiting an average of 5.2 Conversely, intuitive and streamlined experiences especially at checkout help grocers send the signal that they recognize shoppers time is valuable. One technology solution that enriches customer experience is self-checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2025

Initially focused on providing an easy way for athletes (Dicks name for its customers) to learn more about products via an in-store barcode scanning feature, the app has continued to incorporate new features that remove friction from the checkout process, such as like autocomplete address suggestions.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

With advancements like AI-driven personalization and checkout-free shopping, the future of in-store technology is poised to completely revolutionize the way we shop. Contactless and Frictionless Payments Long checkout lines have been a longstanding frustration for shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

Features of the new app include: The ability to manage prescriptions for the entire family across CVS Pharmacy stores, CVS Caremark mail orders and CVS Specialty pharmacies, with full details on delivery and fulfillment options as well as order status and cost; The capability being tested in a handful of stores to use the app to open locked display (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Inside H&M ’s new store in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood, the fast fashion retailer has nested a shop-in-shop featuring curated secondhand pieces — the brand’s first resale location in North America. To celebrate the debut, beginning Feb.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Simplifying Checkout In this case, “simplifying checkout” means embracing “self-checkout.” To prove the value of these experiences, Buzek cited results at retailer Sam’s Club , where stores that offered a self-checkout option registered sales 18% higher than those without it.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

For this reason, there have been major investments in exciting retail activations from some of the biggest grocers in the world, with a particular focus on bringing the online and in-store shopping experiences together in one seamless checkout. boasting 365 locations. Here in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Discount ecommerce app Wish has teamed up with parcel pickup and drop-off network Pudo to offer customers click-and-collect options at more than 1,200 locations across the U.S. This partnership amplifies convenience by enabling hassle-free package retrieval from numerous locations,” said Zhang in a statement. “In and Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Target is rolling out multiple initiatives aimed at improving in-store safety during the holiday season, including contactless self-checkout, skip-the-line technology and doubling the number of contactless pickup parking spots. They can then check out with an associate or at self-checkout as they normally would.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

They trust your business to fulfil their purchases on time and in full – and for returns to be convenient. Ensure inventory visibility and control Real-time inventory visibility is critical in ensuring the most efficient fulfilment of orders, maximising conversion and shopping time before critical peak season sale cutoffs.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Simon Properties is partnering with Dropit to bring omnichannel inventory management and fulfillment capabilities to its facilities. Dropit layers AI technology into existing fulfillment systems to empower merchants to use real-time data that powers dynamic decision-making to balance inventory, optimize sourcing and streamline returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

Books-A-Million is celebrating National Read Across America Day by offering same-day delivery to locations nationwide. Powered by Walmart GoLocal , the service was initially launched last year and is part of the retailer’s broader focus on creating a frictionless ecommerce fulfillment experience for customers across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Implementing new omnichannel technologies at brick-and-mortar locations in particular appears to be a big focus for the year, as retailers look to capitalize on increased footfall to offset smaller basket sizes.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Customers at the Valparaiso store can access the same benefits available at the retailer’s corporate-owned stores, including same-day Instacart delivery, curbside pickup, in-store mobile checkout, virtual one-on-one nutritionist appointments and the retailer’s Health Awards loyalty program.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Getting your buyers through the checkout page is only half the battle. Does your order fulfillment strategy live up to your customers’ expectations? Delivery transparency : Real-time updates about location and shipping status notifications. Don’t hesitate to enhance your overall fulfillment strategy using technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

Cashiers likely won’t top the list of job openings though, at least in the long term — Alimentation Couche-Tard also recently announced plans to roll out self-checkout systems at 7,000 of its locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe over the next three years.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

Available to retailers that also sell on the Amazon Marketplace, the expanded seller offering will see Amazon associates pick up and deliver online orders from retailers’ stores to Prime members who select the option at checkout. Amazon then sends the order to the store and a retail store associate fulfills it.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2024

Shopify provides a unified commerce platform designed to enable seamless customer experiences across all channels while centralizing data and operations for multi-location retail businesses. By streamlining and integrating operations, retailers can simplify how they manage large, cross-functional teams and various locations and channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As the separation between physical and digital continues to blur, retailers must throw out traditional ideas about the role physical locations play in the customer journey. We know that today, the fulfillment option that consumers most hope to continue to use moving forward is curbside pickup ,” said Pfeiffer.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

Fast, Frictionless Checkout. The Hard Rock Stadium Express Shop in Miami features “grab and go” checkout tech from AiFi powered by Verizon 5G. The higher bandwidth/lower latency combination will also lead to enhanced frictionless checkout experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Pain Point #1: Selling Apparel Items in a Cashierless Store Amazon has deployed its Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless technology in a range of sports venues, providing friction-free checkout for customers and faster transactions for retailers. But these systems’ reliance on computer vision technology made it a poor fit for apparel sales. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

But rather than a sign of storefront abandonment, experts are expecting retailers to consolidate their locations, to pare down their real estate portfolio and focus their resources on a couple of choice locations. Although competition in the market will shift, physical store locations will remain a cornerstone of retail operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Among other benefits, these types of solutions simplify employee training and make it easier to move associates to different locations as scheduling needs demand. Additionally, inventory visibility across multiple fulfillment nodes and the need to accommodate the growing array of payment options is putting a premium on flexibility.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

That led to this huge move toward making sure that people could get their fulfillment story and their operation story in line, where historically they were running their operations and their Amazon business very separately from their dot.com business. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since 2019, it has relaunched its online offering in Australia, rolled out dedicated e-commerce sites and fulfilment centres in New Zealand and the UK, and upgraded its warehouse management and order management systems, leading to significant efficiency gains and growth. Doubling warehouse efficiency. Improving the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Shipping errors are reduced and checkout is easier, protecting the customers overall experience with your brand. For example, geocoding tools leverage geographic data to help businesses target outreach programs and promotions in specific locations, aligning marketing efforts with customer needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

The delivery platform also has created a Wallet feature; live activity tracking for orders in process; add-on recommendations at checkout; and a more automated process for reporting problems with an order. Additionally, Grubhub has added a Priority Delivery option that promises faster-than-standard delivery for $2.49

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