Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2025

Thats where journey management comes in. Retailers that take a journey management approach can bridge the gap between data and action, ensuring insights lead to real improvements in efficiency and customer experience and drive bottom-line results. What is Journey Management? AI alone isnt enough.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2020

Inventory management starts — and only starts — with a warehouse management system (WMS). In practice, most out-of-box WMSs are not capable of managing the volume and complexity of workloads required in today’s retail environment. Managers need real-time data to fully safeguard the warehouse. Theoretically.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The letdown customers experience when their orders don’t arrive on time, or at all, results in uncertainty and distrust that’s difficult — if not impossible — to remedy. Retailers can expect that customers will turn to other vendors; once this happens, they’ve lost both the sale and the customer’s trust and loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2025

Retail businesses are no longer self-enclosed entities where everything revolves around a checkout and some inventory management software. A strong network infrastructure supports everything from payment processing and inventory management to customer engagement and security, ensuring business continuity and long-term growth.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In this article, we’ll talk about retail management, what it is and why it’s important. This information will be useful to entrepreneurs and business managers who implement approaches aiming at streamline processes, improving customer service and reducing costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

The upgrades are aimed at benefiting retailers as well as customers. Some of the planned improvements include barcode scanning, more efficient inventory management, easier options for adding product images and real-time support to fix any issues that come up.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 31, 2025

Technologies such as real-time inventory management, automated picking systems, and flexible fulfilment models are playing a key role in enhancing operational efficiency. Fulfilment innovation drives EBIT Innovation in fulfilment extends beyond enhancing the customer experience; it directly contributes to financial performance.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It involves integrating digital tools and processes across all aspects of the business, from product development and marketing to sales and customer service. The goal is to create a seamless and personalized customer experience that drives sales and loyalty. How Do You Step-Up Your Digital Transformation?

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Retailers are using AI in various ways to improve customer experiences, streamline operations, and gain valuable insights from data. This helps retailers optimise inventory levels, staffing, and promotions for smoother operations and waste reduction. This improves productivity and reduces costs.

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Retail Customer Experience

AUGUST 6, 2024

To manage a successful thrift store, owners must optimize the customer experience with a multifaceted approach that integrates optimized inventory management technology, effective merchandising and pricing, and customer-centric operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2025

Robots and automated technology are becoming a typical feature in the retail industry, with robots streamlining operations, reducing costs and improving customer experiences. With Amazon pulling back on their cashierless stores , we cannot depend on robots to completely take over the retail experience.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

As consumer demands evolve and competition intensifies, retailers are increasingly looking to robotic solutions to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and drive efficiencies across the supply chain. This example illustrates how robots can enhance customer service in a retail setting.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 20, 2024

Berrios , a furniture and appliance retailer celebrating its 50 th anniversary, will deploy SaaS technology from Storis designed to optimize inventory management, improve sales processes and deliver a seamless omnichannel experience to customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2025

Travel retailer WHSmith North America has moved its merchandising, inventory management and sales audit solutions from an on-premises to a cloud-based model as it prepares to drive growth in North America with a significant pipeline of new stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

As AI continues to prove its worth in critical areas like inventory management and security, the pressure to adopt these technologies also is mounting. But delivering a great customer experience hinges on more than just strategyit requires seamless user experiences (UX) at every touch point.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2025

Over the past 12 months, we have been building up our selection of products, investing in our operations network, and opening new fulfilment centres, said Anthony Perizzolo, general manager of delivery and supply chain for Amazon Australia. Too many times in other industries it just becomes about cost and that gets embedded in peoples minds.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, retail businesses face an increasing demand to streamline operations, improve customer experience, and stay ahead of the competition. Enhanced Inventory Management Effective inventory management is vital for retail success.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This extended downtime presents a unique opportunity for operators to enhance the customer experience. These stores must expand their product assortment, improve inventory management and optimize supply chain operations almost overnight. Manish Choudhary is the President of SymphonyAI ’s retail / CPG division.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2025

That means theres an abundance of untapped data that isnt being used to enhance the customer experience. This means more data for more tailored customer experiences. This degree of personalization can have a huge impact on customer satisfaction. Predictive analytics tools are a powerful option here.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

To meet these demands and elevate its fulfilment strategy, Freedom partnered with Shippit , ANZ’s leading commerce delivery platform, and Fluent Commerce’s Distributed Order Management System (OMS), Fluent Order Management. Managing deliveries for a large network of stores required significant manual coordination with multiple vendors.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

The retailer will test inventory management technology in a sixth store. In addition to supporting its employees during the current labor shortage, Vallarta will use the robots to gather real-time inventory data, an important capability as retail continues to grapple with supply chain challenges.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s energizing to think about customer experience transformation and what that could possibly mean for a business. In the retail industry, many organizations are at a pivotal moment of forging a path forward to define the future-state customer experience where the physical and digital converge. We all like to think big.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It also empowers our associates with cool tech that makes a big difference in the way they are able to work and provide the best possible customer experience.”. Walmart also has built out its inventory management capabilities at its U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

DCs already had nearly perfect inventory accuracy. Most large enterprises were already running warehouse management systems that delivered inventory accuracy in excess of 99% (in comparison to stores, which typically ranged between 65%-85%). Brian Kinsella is Manhattan Associates ’ SVP of Product Management.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

Target also plans to modernize its core inventory management system with AI-powered technology designed to improve reliability and reduce out-of-stocks.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2025

AI also is good for improving the predictability level of inventory management. Certain platforms, like Shopify, have AI integrated [into them], so they can look at sales velocity and what I have in inventory and constantly keep me aware of when, and how much, I should be ordering.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2024

Additionally, network analytics can provide real-time feedback on inventory levels, predict future demand based on historical data and current trends and optimize supply chain operations. The store implemented network analytics to better understand customer behavior and store performance.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a preview of AWS Supply Chain, a new application designed to help businesses increase supply chain visibility to make faster, more informed decisions that can mitigate risks, lower costs and improve the customer experience. AWS Supply Chain is available in preview in U.S.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Digital commerce has become increasingly complex, with endlessly diverse customer journeys and pressure on brands to meet rising consumer expectations. Retailers are grappling with ever-multiplying channels, and managing disparate touchpoints while trying to create a seamless, excellent omnichannel experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Collectively, the VUSION suite of services are designed work together to promote agility, sustainability and an improved customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As a company, we are always looking for ways to innovate and enhance both our operations and the customer experience,” said Scott Kessler, EVP and CIO of Northeast Grocery in a statement. Northeast Grocery is encouraging shoppers to provide feedback during the pilot program to help shape the future of this initiative. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Dollar General has “prioritized increasing the employee presence at the front end of our stores to provide a friendly, welcome and elevated level of engagement to our customers, while also facilitating a positive checkout experience,” he noted. “We For its Q1 2024, which ended May 3, 2024, Dollar General’s net sales reached $9.9

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Within web sites and native mobile apps, there are now chatbots, live chats, product reviews, real-time feedback surveys and more — all creating new data points that must be properly managed and monitored to optimize the customer experience. This is what we call True Digital Customer Experience. since October 2015.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

The VIP Suite, which is expected to open later in 2024 in the center’s luxury wing, The Adirondacks District, also will host private events and offer personalized service and curated customer experiences. powered AI technology to assist shoppers during the 2023 holiday season.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The retailer has utilized the mobile system to improve service efficiency and give its associates access to each customer’s transaction history, wish lists and preferences so that they can provide more personalized shopper interactions. BTM Global led the implementation.

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I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

If youre an ambitious mid-sized retailer, youre probably aware of retail management software, and understand that it can be a powerful tool to help you automate and streamline your operations. You know that its more than simply a point of sale, and that it offers a comprehensive platform for managing the entire retail operation.

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