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Turn Your Store Associates into Superheroes with These Four POS Capabilities

Retail TouchPoints

Prepping click-and-collect orders, picking and packing ship-from-store orders, managing store-to-store transfers, etc. — Follow evolving protocols as they relate to loss prevention. They need to keep track of what’s new, what’s unique to their location and what just went on sale. the fulfillment scenarios really are endless.

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

Optimize inventory management: Like damaged products and shipping errors, theft can negatively impact retail inventory management. Address the self-checkout issue: Staffing constraints have made self-checkouts a popular fixture in stores of all sizes. Throughout his retail career, loss prevention remained a focus.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

For example, they need to support omnichannel services like BOPIS, ship-from-store and seamless returns. Trend 6: Loss Prevention Enters the Design Conversation Earnings results from Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lowe’s and Target brought theft, and specifically organized retail crime (ORC), into the media spotlight.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

VMS

But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. In California, Amazon-owned Whole Foods stores launched palm-scanning technology at checkout. Container ships are canceling routes from Asia to North America.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. This product is shipped to the store where the customer picks it up. Lower shipping costs. Saves time and money.

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5 Major Retail Digital Transformations to Watch For in 2021

Retalon

Retail AI identifies the fulfillment options that balance customer satisfaction with the cost of shipping and handling by accounting for inventory levels, transportation costs, and other factors, in real-time. These systems proactively forecasted fulfillment demand and brought the product to the right place.