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The Future of In-Store Tech: How Digital Innovation is Shaping Retail

Retail Focus

For instance, AI-powered virtual assistants can provide product suggestions based on previous shopping habits, while interactive kiosks offer tailored promotions and inventory updates. These technologies not only enhance convenience but also reduce returns by helping shoppers make more informed decisions.

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Retailers Need to be Smarter with Their Smart Store Implementations

Retail TouchPoints

Starting in the late 1980s with the introduction of self-checkout kiosks and progressing to today’s smart RFID tags and even fully automated storefronts, retail leaders have slowly but surely embraced digital in-store enhancements. Retailers across segments have been expanding their smart store ambitions for decades.

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Sick of hearing about AI? The key is understanding how to make it work for you

Inside Retail

Shopper engagement Chatbots and in-store kiosks: These provide instant assistance to your shoppers seeking information, especially when it comes to those common, easy-to-answer questions. Inventory management Predictive analytics: This helps optimise your stock levels, preventing overstocking and stockouts.

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Can Self-Service Kiosks Offer Support In Today’s Retail Conditions?

Frank Mayer

While more shoppers return to stores, retail self-service kiosks offer the safe contactless experience and endless aisle options they now seek. Before we dive into how self-service kiosks can assist retail, though, it’s important to address the more pressing concern about the industry first. The Retail Elephant in the Room.

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Beyond Click & Collect: True omnichannel retail in 2024

I Vend

In the physical world, there are established stores, pop up stores, kiosks, collection lockers and collection and drop off partners. Online they can browse and buy through browser search, image search, ecommerce stores, apps, and social media. Most commonly that was ordering online for collection in store – or click and collect.

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Double bubble – the twin benefits of great retail technology

I Vend

Happy customers buy more, return more and tell others. Kiosks to provide customer information, or provide an ‘endless aisle’ facility to order goods that are not in store, reducing lost sales and increasing revenue. Customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction are the two sides to the thriving retail business coin.

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Robots, RFID tags and an incubator area: Inside Decathlon’s new Data Lab

Inside Retail

The automation of laborious and manual tasks such as inventory management through the development of new technologies in the Data Lab allows our Decathlon teammates to do what they find most meaningful – fostering relationships with customers. IR: Can you tell us what is involved in the partnership with Conexus Studio?