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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Retailers need to handle inventory in stores and distribution centers, keep an eye on both digital and physical shelves and keep costs down with efficient logistics and routing.

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It’s Official – Amazon is an Ecommerce Enabler First and a Retailer Second

Retail TouchPoints

Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon , is celebrating his 10th anniversary with the company this year, and so he kicked off the fourth annual Amazon Accelerate conference for sellers by comparing the differences between the ecommerce platform today and 10 years ago.

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Top 10 Technology Trends in Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Between the need for more expansive ecommerce functions, low-contact or no-contact shopping experiences, virtual communication between businesses and consumers and the digitization of functions like inventory and customer service, here are the top 10 technology trends pushing retail into the future faster than ever before.

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Ten competitive strategies of successful retailers

I Vend

They have become ever more demanding about what they want: service, price, choice, convenience, omnichannel retail, frictionless checkout – and if they’re not satisfied, they simply go elsewhere. What are ‘frictionless’ processes? So the first common feature we see in successful retailers is their customer-centricity.

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Ten competitive strategies for retail success

I Vend

We’ve looked at the importance of a customer-centric approach, data-based decisions, omnichannel, supply chain management and your team. Optimising store operations – When it comes to store operations, one of the things that all successful retailers have in common is optimised processes and efficiency.

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From smart mirrors to in-car shopping: the tech shaping retail’s future

Inside Retail

Rather, it is in constant flux, with innovations shifting the way that industry players operate, and changing the way that consumers and traders interact with one-another. From a back-of-house perspective, AI and machine learning technology is also able to power supply chain management and easily detect fraud.

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How Robotic Process Automation Can Contribute To Retail Growth

Retail Minded

Some even perform critical tasks to complete the entire retail process. But can Robotic Process Automation (RPA) take retail automation to the next level? The retail industry has been employing RPA to smoothen its operations and gain growth momentum to overcome multiple problems. That’s where robotic process automation can help.