Sat.Aug 13, 2022 - Fri.Aug 19, 2022

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What Mixed Signals Do You Send Your Customers?

Hyken

Then I read Jan Carlzon’s book, Moments of Truth, many years ago. It was one of the most powerful customer service and experience books at the time, and the content aligned perfectly with my idea of creating Moments of Magic for our customers. Carlzon’s definition of the Moment of Truth was: . Anytime a customer comes into contact with a business, however remote, they have an opportunity to form an impression. .

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Target takes 87% hit to operating profit as it resets inventory

Retail Dive

The retailer resorted to markdowns after facing sluggish demand as consumers grapple with inflation. Was it a speed bump, or a sign of poor planning?

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‘Reclaiming’ lost loyalty for high-street brands via the Metaverse

Retail Focus

Mark Zuckerberg has tongues wagging with big claims about his “Metaverse”, and while he’s since shed very little light so far on what this will entail, or how far it’s progressed, we know the aim is to create a ‘phygital’ world where people can work, play and hangout, accessed by virtual and augmented reality tools. . For the physical retail world, the thought of all this taking place within the Metaverse could seem like a real threat.

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8 Key Ecommerce Automation Strategies That Drive Sustainable and Profitable Growth

Retail TouchPoints

It’s hard to say that 2022 has been the year of ecommerce so far. Looking at all the stats, frankly one might even say quite the opposite. According to the latest Mastercard SpendingPulse report, ecommerce transactions have declined 1.8% from a year ago, while in-store sales rose 10%. From another perspective, research showed that on average, the online share of total spending rose sharply, from 10.3% in 2019 to 14.9% at the peak of the pandemic.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Our Responsible Approach to Governing Artificial Intelligence

Cisco Retail

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Chief Information Officers and other technology decision makers continuously seek new and better ways to evaluate and manage their investments in innovation – especially the technologies that may create consequential decisions that impact human rights.

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JB Hi-Fi posts record earnings, backed by online growth

Inside Retail

Trans-Tasman electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi has reported record earnings backed by strong online growth in its full-year results. The business says total sales grew 3.5 per cent to $9.23 billion while tax-paid profit rose 7.7 per cent to $544.9 million. E-commerce revenue grew 52.8 per cent to $1.63 billion, accounting for 17.6 per cent of all sales.

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How Kids Foot Locker Plays Well with Gen Alpha

Retail TouchPoints

Social platforms and the metaverse have given Gen Alpha a new way to share their voice, their creativity and their identities with the world. Kids Foot Locker sees this as an incredible opportunity to amplify and engage with its target audience. During this episode of Experience Insiders, Jill Feldman, VP and General Manager of Kids FootLocker shares how the evolution of Gen Alpha is inspiring new approaches to customer engagement, Back-to-School marketing and even the in-store experience.

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Shopper Marketing Weekly Snacks #19

Tokinomo

Campaign scoop.

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Ikea Australia launches live shopping event

Inside Retail

Ikea Australia has launched a two-week festival inspiring people to explore their creativity and inventiveness at home. The global festival runs from August 26 to September 10 and takes place both online and in-store. Ikea stores across the country will host free live workshops, events and activities including ‘Interior Design Speed Dating’, indoor plant workshops, plant-based cooking demos, expert talks, food tastings and store treasure hunts.

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Hearing aids approved for sale over-the-counter

Retail Wire

A new rule by the Food and Drug Administration allows hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter with no prescription needed. “The FDA estimates this rule will save consumers on the order of about $1,400 per individual hearing aid or over $2,800 per pair,” Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Lids Picks Basketball Theme for First Brick-and-Mortar Store in Australia

Retail TouchPoints

Photo courtesy of Lids. Photo courtesy of Lids. Photo courtesy of Lids. Photo courtesy of Lids. Photo courtesy of Lids. Lids is continuing its brick-and-mortar expansion with its first store in Australia, focusing on the NBA and WNBA for the Melbourne shop. The retailer is planning to open a second Australia location with a brick-and-mortar store in Sydney later in 2022.

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How to humanize your FMCG brand to bond with shoppers

Tokinomo

The FMCG sector is a competitive one. Thousands of products from hundreds of brands are displayed to the shoppers in supermarkets, grocery, and convenience stores. How can an FMCG brand remain top of mind of customers and increase its market share? By connecting with the customer.

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E-commerce sales fall as cost-of-living pressures hit consumers

Inside Retail

As inflation and rising interest rates start to bite and reduce consumers’ spending capacity and confidence, Australian e-commerce sales declined sharply in July. . According to new figures from global e-commerce and marketplace accelerator Pattern , online retail sales in July across Australia declined by 34 per cent compared to the same period last year.

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Rediscovering the power of data

Mulesoft

Finger on the Pulse is a series where we explore the major trends shaping business technology. In each post, you’ll learn from one of our key partners and their perspective on an industry trend through the lens of their unique business. Our last post, Simplifying money movement to open new growth opportunities, explored how to […]. The post Rediscovering the power of data first appeared on MuleSoft Blog.

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Modernizing the Frontend Experience on Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Unlock agility, boost performance, and gain control over your Salesforce frontend with the latest masterclass from Composable.com : Modernizing the Frontend Experience on Salesforce Commerce Cloud Featuring experts from Algolia, Ember, Netlify, and Stripe, this masterclass focuses on practical strategies for optimizing your Salesforce Commerce Cloud storefronts using modern composable commerce integrations.

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Upstate New York Warehouse Becomes Latest Amazon Site Seeking Unionization

Retail TouchPoints

An Amazon warehouse in Castleton, N.Y. is the latest of the ecommerce giant’s to seek unionization, according to the National Labor Relations Board. The Amazon Labor Union, which led one successful and one unsuccessful unionization push at Staten Island, N.Y. warehouses earlier in 2022, filed the petition. The union would represent approximately 400 workers at the Castleton warehouse, including many associates who worked an average of four hours or more per week during the 13 weeks immediately p

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Pandora launches lab-made diamond collection as US sales decline

Retail Dive

The new 33-piece Brilliance collection has diamonds made with renewable energy, and includes 100% recycled silver and gold.

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Western Australia gets its first Coles Local store, in Perth

Inside Retail

Coles is set to open its first Coles Local supermarket store in Perth, Western Australia, in November. The new store will be located in South Perth’s Angelo Street and will sell products from 45 suppliers unique to Coles Local, including bread and pastries from Mary Street Bakery, artisan deli goods from The Farm Margaret River, pantry items from Dirty Clean Food and convenience meals from Hail the Kale.

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Server deployment done right – Cisco UCS X-Series with Intersight

Cisco Retail

Whether it is a new VDI environment to enable remote work or being able to decommission older, slower, more power-hungry servers, a new server provides no business benefits until it is deployed and in production. The UCS difference. UCS has always been different and innovative with the goal of making things simpler for customers and their IT teams. Unified fabric – collapsing data, storage, and management networks onto a single wire – made networking simpler and provides both OpEx and CapEx TCO

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Website Security Essentials: Protect Your Site and Strengthen Cybersecurity

In a digital-first world, website security is non-negotiable. This comprehensive guide explores the critical importance of securing your site against hackers and vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and malware. Discover tools like SiteLock for threat monitoring and CodeGuard for seamless backups, ensuring robust protection for your data and operations.

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How to Choose Email Software for Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

For 87% of B2B marketers and 77% of B2C marketers , email remains the primary content marketing channel. Indeed, it helps to expand the customer base and get to know your audience better. Despite a wide variety of email services available today, there is no one that would suit every business. That is why choosing software should involve multiple factors to find the one which will cover specific business needs.

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Praval Singh on Using Zoho Social for Your Business

Small Biz Trends

? In this episode of Small Biz in :15 On Location, we traveled to Austin, Texas, for ZohoDay 2022 to talk to Zoho Vice President of Marketing and Customer Experience Praval Singh. In this episode, Shawn Hessinger, the Chief Editor of Small Biz Trends, sits down and talks to Praval to find out all about managing your social presence with Zoho Social.

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Super Retail Group delivers record sales, eyes expansion

Inside Retail

Super Retail Group has reported a “record” year of sales in its full-year results marked by a strong second-half performance – but its bottom line did not fare as well. For the year to July 2, the business says sales grew 2.8 per cent to $3.55 billion although tax-paid net profit fell 20 per cent to $244.1 million. Online sales grew 44 per cent to $601 million with click-and-collect accounting for 55 per cent of online sales — surging 73 per cent to $332 million.

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Announcing MuleSoft CloudHub 2.0

Mulesoft

MuleSoft is excited to announce MuleSoft Cloudhub 2.0, a simplified experience to deploy and run MuleSoft applications in the cloud. CloudHub 2.0 is a fully managed, containerized managed cloud service, where you can deploy and run MuleSoft applications. MuleSoft CloudHub 2.0 At MuleSoft CONNECT 2022, we announced CloudHub 2.0. This new release builds on the […].

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Sparked by Pandemic Stresses, Unionizing Workers Seek Respect and a Place at the Table

Retail TouchPoints

While only a small number of retail stores have unionized, the growing popularity of the movement may herald of what’s to come. More than two-thirds ( 68% ) of Americans approve of unions, the highest level in half a century, according to a Gallup poll. Overall union participation has remained steady in the past several years, but positive perception of unions is steadily growing from its nadir in the late 2000s.

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Cisco Project, “An-API-For-An-API,” Wins Security Award

Cisco Retail

Enterprise software developers are increasingly using a variety of APIs in their day-to-day work. With this increase in use, however, it is becoming more difficult for organizations to have a full understanding of those APIs. Are the APIs secure? Do they adhere to the organization’s policies and standards? It would be incredibly helpful to have a suite of solutions that provides insights to these questions and more.

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Homeworld Helensvale sells for $265 million

Inside Retail

Queensland’s large format retail centre Homeworld Helensvale has sold for $265 million to a private investor, marking Australia’s second largest and Queensland’s largest transaction on record for such a centre. Located in the northern suburbs of the Gold Coast, Homeworld Helensvale spans 36,000sqm of lettable area and has a diverse mix of health and medical, retail, lifestyle, dining and daily needs tenants.

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10 Cleaning Franchise Opportunities

Small Biz Trends

If you’re looking for a business with a lot of opportunity and growth potential, you might want to consider a commercial cleaning franchise. With our list of cleaning services franchise opportunities to choose from, you’re sure to find one that fits your interests and abilities. And with the right preparation and marketing, you can turn your cleaning services franchise into a successful business.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How Kids Foot Locker Inspires Gen Alpha…from TikTok to the Metaverse

Retail TouchPoints

While many brands and retailers are focusing on engaging Gen Z, Gen Alpha is slowly creeping into the picture. Gen Alpha — consumers born after 2010 — have grown up immersed in technology. They are truly digitally omnipresent, using smartphones, social networks, gaming platforms and the metaverse to connect with each other and express their individuality.

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Cisco DNA Center Template Labs – Rest-APIs – Part 9

Cisco Retail

Overview. In this episode of our ongoing DNA Center Automation Series , our focus moves to Rest-APIs and using postman to automate the network. We will change our focus from templating to automation through Postman, a great tool to examine RESTful APIs in a single user interface. This is a Self-Paced Standalone Lab, where we will build upon the foundational knowledge acquired in the previous labs.

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ACCC probes consumer concerns, competition in the social-media market

Inside Retail

Australian businesses and consumers are encouraged to share their views on social media services as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) prepares the sixth interim report in its Digital Platform Services Inquiry. The commission will examine various “consumer protection issues” such as the state and degree of competition in these services, trends in mergers and acquisitions by social media platforms, the use and abuse of social media services for scams and the role of adverti

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Best Smart Board Options for Business in 2022

Small Biz Trends

Visual communication has been improving with each new development in digital technology. From personal computers to tablets and smartphones, you can now get your ideas across quickly and efficiently. Smart boards, also known as interactive whiteboards or displays, look to do the same by integrating some of the features of these devices to ideate, communicate and collaborate.

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Is Your Business AI-Ready? Find Out with Orium’s Maturity Model

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.