Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With the return to bricks-and-mortar shopping, retailers are seeking new ways to connect with consumers in a personalised and tailored way. Enter digital signage and kiosks, which are transforming the in-store experience and helping retailers deliver a customer experience that matches consumers’ online shopping expectations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

Ideally, these apps also should contribute to a better in-store shopper experience. Understaffing contributes to theft and shrinkage in general, but it also creates an increasingly impersonal feeling for offline shopping ,” said Nick Kramer, Leader of Applied Solutions at SSA & Co. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Whether responding to a transactional survey, sharing an experience in a group chat (or Zoom), leaving a public Google review, or streaming a live unboxing of your product on TikTok – customers are advocating for or detracting from your brand in new and countless ways. Customer journey disruption is here to stay.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We aim to enable creators and brands to turn their affinity and consumer engagement on Roblox into an effortless shopping experience for their new and existing audiences. The collection also included a real-life version of the fan-favorite Forever Beanie, the #1 selling item in Forever 21 Shop City on Roblox. Beauty E.l.f.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Walmart has unveiled a reimagined store design, with a new look and feel that focuses on a digitally enabled shopping experience. At the entrance, clean, colorful iconography and a store directory welcome customers and encourage them to download and use the Walmart app while they shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Ahold retail banners include Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The Giant Company and Stop & Shop. In partnership with Inmar Intelligence , Ahold Delhaize will now help CPG brands capture customers attention at the shelf, complementing the partners previous work on personalizing the omnichannel customer experience with digital coupons.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. A well-designed store can create a memorable brand experience that strengthens customer loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Even more concerning is that this trend is exacerbated on Saturdays, the busiest shopping day of the week. Left unaddressed, this growing dissatisfaction with prices poses a great threat to retailers in harming customer trust, diminishing repeat business and eroding long-term profitability.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2024

Consumers are changing how they shop and who they shop with, and now brands are taking notice. Traditionally, retail spaces have been associated with social interaction and shared experiences, serving as bustling hubs for family outings and social gatherings among friends. Shopping alone may be the answer.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

This month Retail TouchPoints has been exploring the state of autonomous checkout experiences in our series From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out. Lucky for me, my local ShopRite just started offering Instacart ’s Caper Carts , so I had the chance to get some work done while also doing my weekly grocery shopping (talk about multi-tasking).

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2022

Shopping center owners and operators have faced rapid shifts in the retail landscape over the last few years due, in part, to an increase in online shopping and the buy online, pick up in-store response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Leveraging Data for Stronger Lease Negotiations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

The most effective way to strengthen the customer experience is to elicit feedback. Yet, since customers are often in a rush, it can be challenging to gather valuable feedback. The question can inquire about customer actions, brand preferences, loyalty program participation, pricing or other facets of the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Shopping malls are on the rebound thanks to Gen Z’s hunger for nostalgia and community. Reframing the Shopping Mall Brand Images from the main shopping mall area. They also wanted to “go beyond just buying products on shelves and reframing the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

Wayfair has launched the Digital Design Studio, a patent-pending technology that aims to bring the best of online and in-store shopping together. The Studio is a kiosk that allows customers to create and interact with a variety of design layouts and experience products in a digital, fully 3D room with photorealistic quality.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2022

Online shopping today happens across a wide range of digital touchpoints. And customers expect blazing fast, personalised service – anytime and on any device. Each interaction with a customer is an opportunity for retailers and brands to shine, delight them with a great shopping experience , and build a trusting relationship.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2023

With new applications on the horizon, AI is set to play an ever growing role in improving not only customer experience, but also store efficiency and operations. Meanwhile, other companies are using AI to provide a more personalised shopping experience for customers by analysing their browsing and checkout history.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

AI fuels imagination, leading to a flood of ideas of how to enhance customer experiences, automate tasks and gain an edge in the market. Tailoring Hospitality Guest Experiences Hotels, resorts and bed-and-breakfasts can increase revenues by successfully selling additional services during a guest’s stay.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Communication between your customers, employees and external stakeholders holds the power to unlock discrepancies between departments and show where your business model may have room for improvement to create a more seamless customer experience. How to Track a Customer’s Bad Shopping Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

These concerns are fueling consumer expectations for more contactless experiences everywhere they go, including the retail environment. To mitigate health and safety concerns and deliver on these expectations, retailers are designing touchless shopping experiences with the help of voice and speech recognition technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

Filling a grocery cart is perhaps the one retail experience we all share on a regular basis, more than shopping for clothes, tools or any other retail category. Why is marrying up the in-store and online grocery shopping experience the next big thing in grocery? grocers are valued at $8.5 boasting 365 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2022

Holiday Oil Company , a convenience store retailer with 67 locations in Utah, has selected the Gilbarco Veeder-Root Passport Express Lane self-checkout system, to help ease its labor challenges and create a frictionless shopping experience. For employees, it helps balance out staffing shortages and maintain store standards.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Eyebuydirect has made its first foray into physical-world retailing with a 140-square-foot kiosk featuring a pared-down assortment of 400 pairs of glasses. The branded showcase, located at the Shops at Mission Viejo in Orange County, Calif., will have dedicated store associates on hand to provide customers with personalized assistance.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Victorian bakery chain Ferguson Plarre’s Bakehouse has unveiled its new flagship store at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne. Our flagship store has a premium fit out featuring a central internal kiosk with 180-degree access. We are thrilled to be part of this exciting new chapter at this world-famous location,” Plarre said.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The pandemic led to a surge in ecommerce, yet there are signs of reawakening life in the brick-and-mortar experience, and physical stores are seeking to regain market share. Above all, retail brands have learned that customer experience is key and that shoppers are demanding new levels of convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 26, 2022

Personalization has become a commonly used strategy for connecting with shoppers, no matter what channel they’re using to shop. This data may seem overwhelming at first, so some retailers choose to focus on their top customers, and begin by creating a customer profile for them using these disparate data points.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Every interaction between a consumer and a brand is part of the overall retail experience. This could be a billboard or advertisement on the street, the look and feel of a storefront design, or the physical and digital displays within a shop. They even influence how employees engage with customers and deliver value.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Wundermart customers will be able to enter a location, make a purchase and exit without ever needing to scan individual items, while the store will collect the data needed to make the experience — and even the store’s operations — truly autonomous. “The shops will come to the consumers,” said de Kleine.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It’s no secret that the skincare category has accelerated in recent years and both on- and offline brands have begun investing in physical stores and experiences. In the past year, skincare brand Dermalogica has evolved its bricks-and-mortar offering and launched new kiosks in shopping centres with a focus on treatments and skincare analyses.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

For those not familiar, it’s an enormous structure, and like most auto-centric suburban shopping centers, it’s surrounded by acres of parking spaces. Supreet Barhay: Even before the pandemic, we were looking at ways shopping centers could draw more foot traffic by creating additional places for community and engagement.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2025

How do leading quick-service restaurants (QSR) like KFC and Shake Shack use data to innovate and elevate their customer experience? Swain described a major shift in the way QSRs approach garnering customer experience data from the beginning of his journey with KFC to the present day.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Hospitals and medical campuses typically look at retail as an essentially insignificant element in their patient, visitor and employee experiences. That translates into gift shops and cafeteria spaces that are often sterile environments featuring the same mediocre-quality products and pre-packaged foods.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

RTP: In what ways have interactive digital signage and kiosks enhanced the customer experience? How do you make the experience fun? Leaning into kiosks, enhancing the customer experience, we’re now showing how we can do personalization where people would scan loyalty app badges.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In the brick-and-mortar space, fixturing offers a unique chance to work more closely with brands and elevate the retail experience for consumers. Although you can go to other retailers to purchase Apple products, visiting an Apple store is an entirely different experience. Microsoft was quick to follow Apple’s model.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2023

Hibbett hopes that accepting returns from other retailers in its stores will increase foot traffic and help to introduce its brand to new customers, something that similar programs have done for other retailers. That partnership has since been expanded chainwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A digital queuing system enhances the customer experience — which will be invaluable in the post-COVID era — and increases customer sales. Customer waits may be inevitable sometimes, but that doesn’t mean they also can’t be profitable. Step back from the customer experience and look at queuing in purely operational terms.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Retailers are integrating AI with bricks-and-mortar shops and online platforms to give the shopping experience a remarkable transformation, enhancing both customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Automated checkout experiences: Retailers such as Apple are pioneering checkout-free shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A Neurodiverse Shopping Experience. For the neurodiverse, the experience can be quite the opposite. The combination of sounds, smells, lights and layout can make a simple shopping session stressful and challenging. Many of us have used these design elements to enhance our shopping experiences without even realizing it.

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