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Australian retail’s robotic near future

Inside Retail

Walmarts use of robots: Walmart has deployed robots in many of its stores for tasks like scanning shelves for inventory management, cleaning floors, and sorting deliveries in backrooms. RPA can handle tasks like order processing, inventory management, and data entry, reducing the workload on human staff and minimising errors.

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AI Isn’t Going Anywhere: How Retailers Plan to Deploy the Tech in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Among the current top use cases for AI in retail are: Store analytics and insights; Personalized customer recommendations; Adaptive advertising, promotions and pricing; Stockout and inventory management; and Conversational AI. But many of these tasks may just represent the low-hanging AI fruit.

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

Inside Retail

Retailers are integrating AI with bricks-and-mortar shops and online platforms to give the shopping experience a remarkable transformation, enhancing both customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Inventory management Predictive analytics: This helps optimise your stock levels, preventing overstocking and stockouts.

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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. It may not be particularly glamorous to admit, but the future of shopping is based on data.

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

The task management solution ensures those clean and clear instructions are passed on so you get great productivity out of the employee.” Salespeople on the shop floor can use these devices to seek a colleague’s assistance in locating a certain size or style of a product instead of leaving the customer alone while the salesperson finds it.

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Different Things to Consider Outsourcing in Your Retail Business (and Why)

Retail Focus

Order Fulfillment When outsourcing, retailers can benefit from streamlined inventory management, order processing, and shipping. Inventory Management Efficiently managing inventory is essential for meeting customer demands while minimizing carrying costs.

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Stop out of stocks denting your profits this holiday season

I Vend

Inventory management – ‘the right goods, in the right place, at the right time’ sums up the core of retail. So inventory management is essential. Retail technology can streamline inventory management by enabling retailers to accurately track goods from delivery to sale through to returns.