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The Waste Management Challenge of the Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

The holiday season brings a surge in shopping, both in-store and online. From mountains of packaging to returned products that may contain hazardous materials, management of returned, damaged or expired products becomes increasingly complex and voluminous during the holidays and post-holiday season.

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Nordstrom Promotes 3 Long-Time Executives to New Merchandising, Stores Roles

Retail TouchPoints

Jamie Nordstrom previously served as the company’s Chief Stores Officer and brings more than 28 years of experience to his new position as Chief Merchandiser. Nordstrom has held leadership positions across several areas of the business, including merchandising, store operations, Nordstrom.com and NordstromRack.com.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

This ensures that like items are not stored randomly across a warehouse and allows retailers to accurately manage inventory. Vision AI is Here to Stay But all vision AI is different. The crystal ball has never sensed a brighter retail future.

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‘Retail is a combination of creativity and analytics’: H&M’s Linda Li 

Inside Retail

Since joining H&M in 2014, Li has worked her way through several different roles at the Swedish-born accessories and apparel brand, including merchandising, store development and e-commerce, to her job as head of customer activation and marketing for H&M Americas.

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Trigo Raises $100 Million to Fuel Expansion of Cashier-Free Checkout Technology

Retail TouchPoints

enter new geographies and develop its store and inventory management software application suite, StoreOS. Trigo’s solution is designed to help supermarkets create a “digital twin” of the store using feeds from ceiling-mounted cameras and shelf sensors.

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

Retail TouchPoints

This has so far been extremely useful for retailers to manage inventory and monitor products in cases of shoplifting. One retail tech trend picking up steam is radio frequency identification (RFID), which can automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

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How Technology is Supporting the Era of ‘Value’ and ‘Values’

Retail TouchPoints

It also guarantees that every employee is going to have a tool to help the customer and that they’re going to do timekeeping, schedule management and interacting with management and operating procedures. Inside a store , for example, retailers invest in a mobile solution, a shelf solution, a solution to track their inventory.

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