Inside Retail
MARCH 21, 2022
Back in March 2021, Wesley Ng, like much of the world, became aware of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for the first time. “I got a bit of FOMO,” the co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong-based tech accessories brand Casetify, said at the Marketing Pulse virtual conference last week. “So we created a one-of-one piece of collectible art, a phone case NFT, which is interoperable in metaverse space.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 24, 2022
Build-A-Bear Workshop is celebrating the return of in-store parties, which were shut down for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic. The retailer, which announced last year that it was upgrading its ecommerce experience , has another reason to celebrate this year: its 25 th anniversary. In honor of the milestone, Build-A-Bear is offering a Silver Celebration Party package.
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Tokinomo
MARCH 22, 2022
Shoppers still love to come to the store to quickly grab the products they need or to stroll along the fully stocked shelves. The pandemic had a major impact on brick and mortar stores, including grocery stores. After two years of the pandemic, the damage can still be seen in the on-shelf availability, foot traffic, and shopping patterns.
Retail Wire
MARCH 23, 2022
Macy’s is expanding the number of department stores it operates with Backstage shops by 26. The off-price store within the store will measure from 11,000 to 18,000-square-feet depending on the location.
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Inside Retail
MARCH 21, 2022
The Australian government has announced an additional investment of $60 million in the Recycling Modernisation Fund, bringing the total investment to $250 million. The fund will focus on advanced plastic recycling technology and tackle problematic single-use plastics like bread bags, chip packets, cereal box liners, chocolate wrappings. “This new funding stream, dedicated to helping solve the problem of hard to recycle plastic waste, demonstrates our determination to invest in Australian industr
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 24, 2022
Ask any retailer or consumer and they’ll agree on this point: ecommerce returns are a problem — albeit for diametrically opposed reasons. The cost of returns keeps ecommerce operators awake at night — so much so that some large retailers have adopted a “just keep it” policy towards certain purchases, opting to issue a refund without asking for the merchandise back (a trend that may prove unsustainable for both margins and the environment if consumers come to expect it).
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Retail Wire
MARCH 25, 2022
Seventy-nine percent of the workers at a Hershey plant in Stuarts Draft, VA, voted against being represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union.
Inside Retail
MARCH 23, 2022
Amazon Australia has launched a new mental health support benefit for its employees and their families, providing life coaching and mindfulness resources for holistic mental wellbeing. Research commissioned by Amazon Australia found that nearly 95 per cent of its workers expect a workplace support service that promotes their mental and physical wellbeing.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 25, 2022
Walmart Inc. has filed a lawsuit against BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. over its mobile Express Pay shopping app. The suit alleges that the app infringes upon features of the Scan & Go technology introduced by Walmart subsidiary Sam’s Club in 2016 and adopted by Walmart in 2018. The suit was filed on March 22, 2022 by Sam’s West Inc., Walmart Apollo, LLC against BJ’s in U.S.
Wiser
MARCH 22, 2022
The customer path to purchase is very rarely straightforward. Shoppers go through many twists and turns as they decide which product will get them the best bang for their buck. The goal for your brand is to be there to influence consumers at those key moments in the decision-making process and sway them toward your own products. Sometimes, this can alter a customer’s final purchase completely and increase your own profits.
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Retail Wire
MARCH 25, 2022
A.P Moller-Maersk, the Danish shipping container giant, has signed a five-year deal with Einride that includes 300 electric heavy-duty trucks. The trucks will be launched in Chicago, Newark, NJ, Los Angeles and Savannah, GA. “If this is a success, there is no reason why we don’t have the same operation across all port cities in the U.S.,” said Narin Phol, regional managing director at Maersk North America.
Inside Retail
MARCH 20, 2022
In a bid to improve job opportunities for people living with disabilities, the government has launched a $2.43 million RecruitAble pilot at Coles head office on Monday. The pilot is in partnership with Get Skilled Access which was founded by Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott AO, and national recruitment agency Randstad Australia. “We are partnering with Coles to help their staff become more inclusive and disability confident, making the shopping experience for people with disability more acces
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 22, 2022
It’s easy to vilify Amazon. But for all its somewhat terrifying clout, questionable business practices and stories about its founder’s yacht-within-a-yacht , there is one thing that cannot be denied — Amazon has been an incredible launching pad for thousands of entrepreneurs. This platform, with its humble beginnings selling used books, has gone on to power the careers and fortunes of countless small businesses.
Nvidia
MARCH 25, 2022
When the first instant photo was taken 75 years ago with a Polaroid camera , it was groundbreaking to rapidly capture the 3D world in a realistic 2D image. Today, AI researchers are working on the opposite: turning a collection of still images into a digital 3D scene in a matter of seconds. Known as inverse rendering, the process uses AI to approximate how light behaves in the real world, enabling researchers to reconstruct a 3D scene from a handful of 2D images taken at different angles.
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Retail Wire
MARCH 25, 2022
Apple is reported to be working on a subscription plan that would include iPhones and iPads. The anticipated move is part of a larger subscription effort at Apple that includes Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple News Plus, Apple Fitness Plus and Apple Arcade.
Inside Retail
MARCH 19, 2022
The return of the Brisbane Fashion Festival has been confirmed, scheduled for August. . This year’s event will be held in King George Square in the heart of Brisbane City from August 22 to 26. Festival director Lindsay Bennett expects more than 2000 people will participate in three days of runway events, and many more via live streams. “Brisbane Fashion Festival proved to be a much-longed-for celebration last year amid the challenges of the pandemic, and a wonderful example of the joy that fashi
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 22, 2022
The CallisonRTKL 2022 Forecast reveals how shopping trends favoring convenience and technologies that ease decision-making for purchases are shaping the future of physical retail spaces — including retail’s role in the “15-minute city” concept and the repurposing of mall spaces. According to the second annual report from the global architecture and design firm, shopping centers, malls and department stores are being transformed into mixed-use spaces, a trend that prioritizes the needs of consume
Nvidia
MARCH 25, 2022
If you want to ride the next big wave in AI, grab a transformer. They’re not the shape-shifting toy robots on TV or the trash-can-sized tubs on telephone poles. So, What’s a Transformer Model? A transformer model is a neural network that learns context and thus meaning by tracking relationships in sequential data like the words in this sentence. Transformer models apply an evolving set of mathematical techniques, called attention or self-attention, to detect subtle ways even distant data element
Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron
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Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2022
Kanye West’s Yeezy brand has hired Nur Abbas as its head of design. Mr. Abbas, who most recently worked as design direct at Nike ACG, is expected to work on special projects for Adidas, Gap and a clothing line connected to Mr. West’s Stem Player music device.
Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2022
Meta Platforms will make it easier for brands to run three-dimensional ads on its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms through a new partnership with an ecommerce technology firm. The integration with VNTANA will allow brands to upload the 3D models of their products to Facebook and Instagram and easily convert them into ads, VNTANA said on Thursday in a press release.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 22, 2022
Department store chain Boscov’s is expanding its dropship capabilities through a new partnership with Logicbroker. The 107-year-old family-owned chain, which has 48 locations across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, has been able to modernize and optimize its dropship program through the migration to Logicbroker, adding much-needed flexibility for its dropship vendors. “Dropship has proven itself as an efficient means of fulfillment for our company and our customers,” said Jen Re
Cisco Retail
MARCH 23, 2022
Over two decades ago—an eternity in internet time—the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) was approved that vastly increased the available number of IP addresses—the unique identifiers for each device connecting to the internet. Back then, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body realized that the immense growth of the internet and the number of devices connecting to it would “soon” exceed the available 32-bit format of IPv4 addresses—a mere 4.3 billion—and imped
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Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2022
Kroger is partnering with Nvidia to open a lab focused on delivering AI-powered apps and services in grocery stores. The companies will open a “demonstration center” focused on in-store shopping and shipping logistics.
Inside Retail
MARCH 23, 2022
American burger chain company Five Guys will open its second Australian outlet in the heart of Sydney’s CBD this year. According to the brand, it has garnered widespread popularity and acceptance by the Sydney community since opening its first outlet in Penrith. The menu includes American favourites such as burgers, hot dogs, hand-cut fries, grilled cheese sandwiches, milkshakes, and customisable toppings. .
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 25, 2022
Two primary worker groups emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic: those who prefer (or tolerate) commuting to an office, and those enjoying a “commute” to a home-based workspace. But how much do consumers’ work environment preferences affect their purchasing patterns? According to a recent survey of 500 consumers by the Emodo Institute , The Psychology of Store Selection , retailers should care a lot about the answer to this question.
Cisco Retail
MARCH 22, 2022
The Transformational Tech series highlights Cisco’s nonprofit grant recipients that use technology to help transform the lives of individuals and communities. Founded in 2006, nonprofit charity: water has shown an incredible commitment to ensure that more people have access to enough clean water. With the assistance of grant funding from Cisco, charity: water has finalized designs, tested, and implemented a first-of-its-kind Internet of Things (IoT) sensor to remotely monitor rural community h
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Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2022
Nestlé says that an unauthorized data dump was made by the company and that the incident was not a hack by Anonymous as retribution against the company for refusing to pull all its business from Russia. The consumer packaged goods giant said it is reducing access to many of its consumer brands sold in Russia, but not infant formula or medical nutrition products.
Inside Retail
MARCH 23, 2022
Global appliance retailer Dyson has opened an immersive demo space for its products in Sydney. The new store boasts large demonstration zones and displays that show how Dyson technologies offer solutions to real-world problems. A ‘wall of debris’ that can be strewn on the floor in order to be vacuumed, air quality demos that show live AQ data, and a beauty lab that assesses shopper’s hair health are all part of the store’s offerings.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 22, 2022
Most companies spend a double-digit percentage of their total revenues on marketing activities, including search, to drive traffic to their sites. Still, research has shown that 61% of ecommerce sites perform below average for internal site search. Most professionals know that at the heart of successful search are two things: good queries, with shoppers knowing what they want and using the right keywords, and good indexed data, i.e., making the correct data available for shoppers to find.
Nvidia
MARCH 23, 2022
Turn on your TV. Fire up your favorite streaming service. Grab a Coke. A demo of the most important visual technology of our time is as close as your living room couch. Propelled by an explosion in computing power over the past decade and a half, path tracing has swept through visual media. It brings big effects to the biggest blockbusters, casts subtle light and shadow on the most immersive melodramas and has propelled the art of animation to new levels.
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