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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

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Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important. On the other hand, ultra-liberal return policies are fine for the customer experience, but they’re really expensive. To provide a 99.5%

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

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As a result, they are organizing the back-of-house environment in an efficient way that allows them to fulfill orders efficiently and accurately. They need the ability to install and have optimally running tech solutions that require minimal maintenance, which deploying at the edge can support.

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

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The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience.

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Getting to Grips with Gen Z

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However, this is contradicted by the fact that Gen Z use stores for clothes more than millennials, although those physical locations may be more about a 24-hour pop-up than a four-story, stone-clad traditional department store.

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

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Their adoption of advanced technologies like AI, data analytics and supply chain optimization enhances customer experiences, but smaller businesses may struggle to keep pace with these innovations.”

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Saving Shoppers from the Sea of Sameness

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As you walk through the mattress store, all you see is what seems like miles of white bedding and seemingly identical products. You feel your head begin to pound as you try to assimilate the barrage of messaging throughout the store. Unfortunately, similar customer experiences are everywhere.

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

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It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming.

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