Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

As Australians adopt the latest digital payment methods, the future of frictionless, automated transactions will offer a completely new customer experience. 3 This acceptance of digital payments supports greater convenience and increases pressure on organisations to offer digital and mobile-first customer payment experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Now, Owens said the company also plans to begin testing a 100% self-checkout store format across 200 locations this year. Self-checkout provides customers with another flexible and convenient checkout solution, while also driving greater efficiencies for our store associates,” said Owens on the earnings call.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Yet as more retailers turn to immersive customer experiences to create a competitive advantage, there is one major problem many are unprepared for: unreliable internet. To truly bring immersive experiences to life, retailers need to examine their tech stack closely. To help, retailers are transitioning to edge computing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2024

Whether a retail location, office building, hotel or healthcare environment, designing to support client objectives requires bringing to bear as much relevant information as possible. For physical retail locations, data and analysis are indispensable for navigating a rapidly evolving and ever-changing marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

By pairing the pass with location, retailers can remind the customer to use the day’s offer when they are near a store. Incentivize conversion with targeted mobile coupons Mobile wallets also can be used to provide customers with personalized offers and discounts.

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Star Miconics

JANUARY 26, 2023

But while those things are still in the realm of science fiction, AI has become increasingly engrained in the modern technology we now use every day, from our smartphones to our point-of-sale (POS) systems. AI helps consumers and workers streamline their activities and increase productivity. But what is artificial intelligence?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Tablets and mobile devices put customer data at employees’ fingertips, allowing them to provide a personal shopping experience while reducing wait times. Managing Endpoint Devices Doesn’t Have to be this Hard As a retailer, your investments in a modern customer experience shouldn’t result in added risk to your IT environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

That’s why it’s of little surprise that on the occasion of its 60 th anniversary, The Paper Store has embarked on a five-year, $60 million brick-and-mortar-oriented expansion that will add 30 to 40 locations to its current 100+ stores and upgrade approximately 30 existing stores. We look at ourselves as the antithesis of online shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Be tough — but preserve the customer experience. This could help them harmonize twin goals — deterring crooks and preserving the customer experience. In such hard-hit locations, high-value items will need to be tethered to cables, stored in lock boxes or kept behind the counter or back of house.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

“By having the option to pick self-checkout for a quick trip, or a traditional, staffed lane when their cart is full, guests who were surveyed told us the overall checkout experience was better, too,” according to the statement. Near-term advancements will address current limitations, enhancing customer experience and retailer security.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., The Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology also has been deployed by other brands, including select Panera Bread locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2023

As technology innovation continues to advance, retailers are ever on the lookout for easier, faster, and more convenient ways to streamline and enhance their operations and the customer experience. But because they don’t engage consumers, they do little to encourage a point-of-sale purchase.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

COS (which stands for Collection of Style) is owned by H&M and currently operates 13 locations across the U.S. location, with additional locations getting the upgrades later this year. Our ambition is to pilot new technologies that allow us to meet and exceed our customers’ in-store shopping expectations.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2024

So it is crucial in this space for retailers to focus not just on the acquisition space, but more so than ever, how they retain their customers and create customer experiences that drive loyalty. Strategising the channel mix to acquire new customers is important to brands and a key to success.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2024

And certainly, through peak trade, that can pose some challenges to the customer experience,” said Kyle Grimshaw, head of stores at RM Williams. With associates now able to be shoulder-to-shoulder with shoppers and armed with comprehensive data, the end-to-end customer experience is elevated to new heights.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

The virtual try-on experience is now available at Dufry locations in London’s Heathrow and Stansted airports as well as airports in Manchester, UK and Barcelona, Spain. Dufry said that it plans to bring the virtual try-on experience to “many more” airports in the future. Dufry has teamed up with AR tech solution Perfect Corp.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Despite the undeniable appeal of online shopping, which offers unparalleled speed and convenience, brick-and-mortar stores still hold significant value for customers, providing tangible, sensory experiences and serving as community hubs that foster human connection.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

After a successful pilot of stationary self-checkout technology at its recently renovated NYC flagship store, Bed Bath & Beyond will deploy solutions from NCR at select locations nationwide. “As NCR has been an incredible partner along this journey and its self-checkout solution brings an important capability to our stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

region or individual stores, reducing energy consumption and utility costs without negatively impacting the customer experience. Interconnected IoT devices, including GPS and RFID tags, allow retailers to track the entire journey of their products, from production to the customers’ sites. Exceptional customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Phygital” is the term being used to describe this blending of physical and virtual to provide more immersive, interactive customer experiences. For instance, brands can use location data to identify certain personas that frequent specific locations and then begin building their audience pool as individuals visit these places.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The luxury market is categorised by its exclusivity, maintained through a combination of high price points, consciously limited product volumes, reputation and customer experience, amongst other factors. billion in 2024. Longchamp manages 325 direct-to-consumer stores through 25 distribution subsidiaries around the world.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

customer experience). Nothing is more difficult than seeing the problem from another’s vantage point — this is where the executive sponsor plays a critical role. For example, Sorel had an anniversary coming up and they were across Nordstrom locations, but they don’t currently have their own brand in stores anymore.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

Now the retailers, with 25 and six brick-and-mortar locations respectively, are bringing their brands to the next level through highly immersive store experiences and a concentrated focused on store growth. Plus, regulatory requirements require these stores to be located in industrial areas, away from traditional retail locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

For our customers it’s all about breadth.” Hot Topic has found that predictability — not necessarily speed — is among the most important aspects of the customer experience. The retailer has seen digital sales shift away from next-day deliveries, which now account for just 18.2%

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Retail Focus

JULY 9, 2021

Located on Westbourne Grove, this will be the third little dobbies to open in the UK, following the success of its first two format stores in Edinburgh and Bristol. Educational point of sale will provide an enhanced customer experience, with top tips on what houseplants will work where and how to look after them.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 24, 2022

The brief was simple; conduct a feasibility study to relay the appropriateness of the site to the team in Sydney and then if the feedback confirmed their instincts, to translate the King brand to the new flagship location in London. in size; competing in the furniture shopping hub in London. .

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A complete point of sale system is one of your biggest assets in the retail industry. You need a point of sale system that helps you manage your business successfully in today’s highly competitive retail industry. Will your point of sale work across multiple platforms?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

From contactless payment to fully automated checkout, innovations showed promise for streamlining and improving the customer experience. Still, other innovative frictionless tech featured throughout the shopper’s journey can improve the customer experience. Improving Customer Experience.

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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

JUNE 15, 2022

And because food shopping decisions align directly with consumers’ needs and preferences, food retailers have a unique opportunity to differentiate through the physical experience they offer. For example, La Grande Epicerie in France was spotlighted as the “crème de la crème” of the French gourmet retail experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The store is quite busy, so you flag down a salesperson and they help you check out from a mobile point-of-sale (POS) system. The world of retail has changed drastically for shoppers, and mobile checkout devices have helped retailers big and small not only provide a better customer experience but also increase sales and revenue.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The brand is using this growth to make strategic investments, including upgrades to its existing stores, and the launch of a new, flagship location in Highpoint Shopping Centre on 10 December. The launch of its new labels, Evity and Nere, delivered over $100 million in revenue. Investing in people, partners and brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

The companies will jointly invest in new customer experiences, events, marketing and on-premise advertising at Westfield shopping centers across the country, with plans to take the partnership global in the coming months. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), owner of Westfield shopping centers in the U.S.,

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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. A centralized database is a system where all of a company’s data is stored in one location, accessible to all departments and retail locations in real time.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2023

Instead of manually inputting sales into separate payment terminals after processing them on their point-of-sale (POS), retailers are now increasingly turning to systems that sync their POS with their payment processors, allowing transactions to seamlessly flow between the two platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

Never has the role of a retail store infrastructure in delivering the customer experiences of tomorrow been so important. Cloud systems are typically designed to run a handful of large, universally available locations — sometimes referred to as “operating at cloud scale.” Take cloud point-of-sale (POS), for example.

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