Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The backlash toward leather-good brand Hermès has sparked protests around the world from affiliates of PETA after footage emerged last week of the “barbaric” conditions of its crocodile farm suppliers. In Paris, London and New York, PETA activists stood outside Hermès stores in crocodile masks, holding bloodied handbags and signs, protesting the business to stop the poor treatment of animals.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Workwear brand Carhartt is recognizing the importance and value of labor by teaming up with heavy metal band Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation, with the goal of training a new generation of skilled workers. Carhartt will donate all online sales on Labor Day 2021 to the foundation’s Metallica Scholars workforce education program, which connects students to hands-on learning and provides support to 23 schools via the American Association of Community Colleges.
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Retail Focus
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
After an exciting process of reviewing a record amount of entries, the shortlist for the third Creative Retail Awards has been revealed. The Awards recognise and reward innovation and excellence in retail design and experience from around the world. The winners and highly commended entries will be announced at a unique awards ceremony to be held at Proud Embankment on 14th October 2021.
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Protecting privacy continues to be a critical issue for individuals, organizations, and governments around the world. Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, our health information and vaccination status are needed more than ever to understand the virus, control the spread, and enable safer environments for work, learning, recreation, and other activities.
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Generative AI is poised to redefine B2B, but scaling AI success in this space isn’t without obstacles. From fragmented data sources and complex buyer journeys to operational inefficiencies, the road to AI-powered growth can be challenging. To achieve a competitive edge, understanding your organization’s AI-readiness is essential. Orium's Data & AI Maturity Model provides a quick, actionable way to assess your starting point.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Autonomous trucks need to lighten the load when it comes to mapping, while still perceiving their surrounding environments reliably. That’s the approach Kodiak Robotics, a Silicon Valley-based self-driving truck startup, is taking to deploy safer and more efficient delivery and logistics. Today, the company unveiled its fourth-generation vehicle — powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin — that uses lightweight mapping and a discreet, modular hardware design to achieve level 4 self-driving capabilities.
Small Biz Trends
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
Sponsored Post. The average U.S. small business worker is estimated to work over 50 hours a week. That’s nearly 14 hours more than the average American worker, and 14 hours likely that these SMBs wish they could save in their weekly efforts. But how can they achieve this? Fortunately, retailers and SMBs who face difficulties with limited time and budget do not have to settle on these realities anymore.
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Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Augmented reality is no longer just for humans — online pet supply retailer Chewy is bringing one of the web’s hottest trends to our four-legged friends with the new “Fur-tual Boutique” virtual try-on experience. The AR tool lets dogs and cats virtually try out seven of Chewy’s most popular Halloween costumes from Frisco, including Cowboy, Killer Doll, Granny and Superhero.
Retail Focus
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Following on from the successful House of Colour Play store concept launch in 2017, ETUDE wanted to revisit the sweet and playful aesthetic of the brands roots with a renewed retail identity. To appeal to today’s more digitally native customers Design4Retail (d4r) were asked to transform the retail store environment focusing on the experience and introducing digital content from the brands online world.
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
We are excited to announce that Gartner has again recognized Cisco as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. Cisco SD-WAN solutions enable customers to deliver a secure, predictable digital experience for today’s hybrid workforce, build dynamic, smart workspaces, and secure multi-cloud environments, accelerating the transition to a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)-enabled architecture.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
A multi-hospital initiative sparked by the COVID-19 crisis has shown that, by working together, institutions in any industry can develop predictive AI models that set a new standard for both accuracy and generalizability. Published today in Nature Medicine , a leading peer-reviewed healthcare journal, the collaboration demonstrates how privacy-preserving federated learning techniques can enable the creation of robust AI models that work well across organizations, even in industries constrained b
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Small Biz Trends
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021
Cashiers play an important role in your business operation as they handle most of the monetary transactions. Not only do they handle your business’ cash they also can impact customer retention and prevent fraud. In this article, we will highlight some of the common mistakes cashiers make and how to look out for them. 10 Common Errors that Cashiers Make and How Employees Can Avoid Them.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Kate Morris has co-founded a new private equity firm in an effort to knock down the walls she faced as a female founder raising capital for Adore Beauty. The new venture, Glow Capital Partners, aims to help purpose-led founders make a positive impact through business, according to Morris. “My experience as a woman founder trying to raise capital was one of walking into rooms full of men in suits,” said Morris.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Shopping has been happening organically on TikTok for a while. Case in point — #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt , which has entered the cultural lexicon and boasts more than 4.6 billion views and counting. What hasn’t been happening much on TikTok is actual buying, until now that is. This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from
Retail Focus
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In celebration of five decades in music, one of the world’s most iconic bands, Queen, will feature in a dedicated experiential pop-up shop at 57 Carnaby Street that opens tomorrow, Tuesday 28th September. The store opens to the public tomorrow morning at 11am with an exclusive launch of a limited edition vinyl of Queen The Greatest Hits. Marked with tomorrow’s date and Carnaby Street for this special occasion, only 1,000 of these limited edition vinyls have been produced.
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Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Cisco UCS X-Series was designed to be modular, expandable, and blur the lines between the efficiencies of blade servers (cable reduction and power & cooling) and the expandability of rack servers (storage & PCIe). It all starts with the Cisco UCS X210c Compute Node. The Brains. The Cisco UCS X210c M6 Compute Node is based on 3 rd Gen Intel ® Xeon ® Scalable processors.
Hyken
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Think about this … what if you were to charge a customer just to talk to you about what you would sell them? Or, if you own a retail store, a fee to enter the store. What would you have to do for your customers to be willing to pay for the privilege of buying your products or services? I’m not suggesting that you should. This is just to get you thinking about how good you really are.
Small Biz Trends
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Sponsored Post. If you operate a retail ecommerce business, it’s never too early to start thinking about the holiday shopping season. With the ecommerce business market getting more competitive every year, especially around the holiday shopping season, you need to do more than ever to stay competitive and keep ringing up sales this year. The good news is that Rakuten Super Logistics has just published a FREE eBook to help small retail ecommerce businesses like yours.
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Almost half of Australian shoppers now use online search and websites to discover new brands, and one in ten do so through social media, according to a new report by Shopify. Online shopping habits have changed a lot in the last few years, with the acceleration caused by the Covid-19 crisis shifting the way consumers view the channel. In Shopify’s ‘This is a store’ survey, 83 per cent of all shoppers said it is crucial that a brand now have an online presence, while 7 per cent said it only matte
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Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Avery Dennison has signed an agreement to acquire Vestcom , a privately held pricing and branded labeling solution provider, for $1.45 billion in a cash transaction subject to certain closing and post-closing adjustments. Vestcom uses data management capabilities to synthesize and streamline store-level data and deliver item-specific, price-integrated messaging at the shopper’s point of decision.
Retail Focus
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Located on Kurfürstendamm, in the centre of the city, the Tommy Hilfiger Berlin flagship store has undergone an extensive refurbishment and expansion to include a Tommy’s Coffee and will even include a 40-seat cinema in the near future. Tommy Hilfiger worked with rpa: group to refit the 476 sq.m of retail space which will includes the brand’s entire menswear and womenswear ranges. .
Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Grapheme to Phoneme (G2P) is a function that generates pronunciations (phonemes) for words based on their written form (graphemes). It has an important role in automatic speech recognition systems, natural language processing, and text-to-speech engines. In Cisco’s AI voice assistant, we use G2P modelling to assist in resolving person names from voice.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
With persistence and the right tools, Deborah Tylor was able to do the impossible. A data scientist, she was tasked to comb a 3+ terabyte dataset at the Internal Revenue Service for patterns that might help uncover fraud. But even when she let the job run all night on a large bank of CPU servers the data refused to line up. She returned in the morning to find the job had failed, so she tried again.
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Small Biz Trends
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Sponsored Post. If you’re a small business, freelancer, or just have an online side hustle, you’re going to feel the recent increase in fees from online payment platforms like PayPal and Venmo. And as these other online payment systems increase their fees, Square Online is keeping the same rates with more features. With Square Online Checkout you get a proven alternative platform to start accepting online payments from anywhere, and more functionality for the growing cashless and con
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Australians ordered over 1 billion parcels during 2020, a first for the country, according to the latest Pitney Bowes parcel shipping index. In a year that saw bricks-and-mortar shut down for extended periods, forcing many Australians to shop online for the first time, Australia’s parcel volumes hit a new high – with an average of 40 parcels generated per person.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Seemingly every day there’s another announcement about a new feature enabling purchases on one social platform or another. In the last two months alone, TikTok has rolled out dedicated “Shopping Tabs” for Shopify merchants, Twitter began a pilot of its “Shop Module,” and Pinterest made it possible for creators to “control the shopability of their content” by tagging products.
Retail Focus
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Landsec has announced the launch of two new retail concepts at Bluewater in Kent. Crep Collection Club, the trend-led sneaker specialists, have opened their first standalone store, whilst accessible fashion concept brand Vanilla has launched its debut space at the destination, following the success of its established online and concession presence. Located adjacent to Jo Malone on the Upper Guild Hall, the 1,042 sq ft Crep Collection Club flagship store represents a bricks and mortar debut for t
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Cisco Retail
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
As a child, I had remote-controlled race car toys. To steer the car, some were tethered to a long wire, but the newer ones were radio controlled. I imagined rounding the corners of an imaginary track in my living room frequently crashing into the legs of furniture. Earlier this year, Michael Martens, CEO of Riedel Networks, called to ask if we could participate in a project to remotely connect a driver to an electric race car.
Nvidia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Satellite images can be a fantastic civil engineering tool — at least when clouds don’t get in the way. . Now researchers at Osaka University have shown how to use GPU-accelerated deep learning to remove these clouds. . The scientists from the university’s Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering used a “generative adversarial network” or GAN. . “By training the generative network to ‘fool’ the discriminative network into thinking an
Hyken
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
One of the favorite chapters I wrote in my recent book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , was about why customers would terminate their relationship with you. Yes, the word terminate ties into the movie Terminator , which somehow became a theme in the background of the book. So, why would a customer terminate his or her relationship with you?
Inside Retail
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Australia’s international borders are set to open in November, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, though state premiers have already started pushing back. Morrison made the announcement on Friday, noting that the decision was always part of the National Plan. Business groups, which have pushed for the reopening of borders to bring in vaccinated workers and international shoppers, welcomed the move.
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