Small Biz Trends

JULY 28, 2025

Shopify integrates e-commerce with in-person sales, providing a synchronized inventory system and extensive app options for tailored POS experiences. Square: Best for Budget-Conscious Businesses When you’re running a small business on a tight budget, finding an affordable point-of-sale (POS) system can be crucial for your success.

Merchant Services

VMS

JUNE 25, 2025

So it’s worth noting that during today’s economic turmoil, Ingka Group (Malmo, Sweden) – the largest IKEA franchisee with 400 stores and 174 plan-and-order points of sale in 31 countries – announced it is halving the price of its restaurant meals Monday through Friday, with children eating for free, in 15 countries.

Home Furnishings

Retail Assist

JULY 22, 2025

It brings structure, automation and a single source of truth to your store operations/workflows, so your team can stay organised, work more efficiently and scale with confidence. This level of visibility enables smart inventory tracking and sales analysis, helping retailers optimise stock levels and prevent overstocking or stockouts.

Inventory Management

I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

If youre an ambitious mid-sized retailer, youre probably aware of retail management software, and understand that it can be a powerful tool to help you automate and streamline your operations. You know that its more than simply a point of sale, and that it offers a comprehensive platform for managing the entire retail operation.

Management

I Vend

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a retailer, you rely on your POS technology for store operations, and you may well have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as well or be considering one. Adding new stores is actually easier when you have an integrated ERP and POS.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

The second prong was replacing foundational systems, such as the company’s legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. “It The platform connects into Salesforce Commerce Cloud, providing a unified view of e-Commerce and store operations at both the store and headquarters level. “We

Planning

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Paper Store promises top-notch customer service in its 100+ brick-and-mortar stores, with associates helping shoppers choose from its widely varied assortment of apparel, accessories, jewelry, water bottles and even packaged food from Stonewall Kitchen (along with paper, pens and school supplies, of course).

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S.,

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Following a 200 -store test that limited customers using self-checkout to a maximum of 10 items, Target has rolled out Express Self-Checkout to its nearly 2,000 stores nationwide. Despite some consumer and retailer complaints about self-checkout , the technology is well entrenched in retail store operations.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

AI models that can coordinate video feeds, RFID and point-of-sale transaction logs, all processed at the edge in real time, can help address price tampering and ensure that customers leave with the products the store believes they have. There’s also the matter of securing the computer hardware that runs the store operations.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Sharmeelee Bala Owned by Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management since late 2020 , JCPenney is actively working to retake its place as a leading department store retailer, most notably with a $1 billion turnaround plan unveiled in September 2023. distribution center with a new induction, sorting and packing system.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

During Brok’s tenure, Sephora has deployed new technology and services as well as expanding its partnership with Kohl’s : Sephora launched same-day delivery in partnership with Delivery Solutions in November 2021; In February 2022 , Kohl’s and Sephora revealed plans to add 400 Sephora shop-in-shops to reach their goal of 850 locations by 2023; and (..)

Planning

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Aēsop operates approximately 400 points of sale across the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, with a recent advance into China, where the brand opened its first store in 2022. The closing is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.

Point of Sale

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

To withstand the crisis, many retailers adopted new and innovative strategies to stay connected with shoppers and ring sales while their brick-and-mortar locations remained closed. Retailers should expect that even consumers who have embraced store reopenings early on will also continue the online behaviors they learned during lockdown.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Then the next step is to go beyond that to say you also plan on empowering consumers to be able to live those promises as well, whether that’s inclusivity, sustainability or giving back to the community. As a result, all hands are on deck to implement new technologies and procedures — even store design teams.

Loss Prevention

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Yet in the midst of taking hundreds of stores through a complex closing and reopening process, Hudson made a daring decision — not only to continue the deployment of the Flooid platform but to accelerate it. “We We were already on a very demanding timeline to implement the system across more than 2,000 points of sale in the U.S.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

We are also excited to partner even more with our vendors this year as it relates to their branded in-store merchandise experiences,” Barry added, identifying Tesla, Lovesac and Starlink as examples of planned vendor partnerships. Best Buy closed 24 stores in FY 2024 and plans to close 10 to 15 in FY 2025.

Planning

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In addition to the Mexican app, scheduled to debut later this year, Levi’s also is planning to integrate digital returns and exchanges into BackPocket to streamline checkout processes.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Amazon announced that it would make its JWO technology available to other retailers in March 2020 , and deployed the technology at an Amazon Fresh store in June 2021. The company plans to equip two of its Whole Foods stores with cashierless solutions in 2022.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s now available on-demand , which makes this a good time to issue a spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the episode yet but plan to, don’t read any further until you have. Launched in 1977, The Vitamin Shoppe saw sales begin to decline in the early 2010’s due primarily to a lack of digital innovation. And that’s not all.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

More Dark Kitchens Over the next five years, QSR chain Wendy’s is planning to add 700 kitchens in converted shipping containers to support delivery. We’re forecasting 700% growth over the next two years for these second locations with dedicated inventory.”.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2022

The next step for the 112-year-old floral and gift brand is offering its partner florists updated features within its new MercuryOnline (MOL) platform, powered by Shopify , which FTD CTO Matt Powell describes as “ how digital commerce interfaces with store operations.”.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This can be done by encouraging the customer to come into the store for a return, but add-ons should be enabled just as seamlessly in the digital store as well. Ultimately, planning for holiday season 2021 begins with the recap of holiday season 2020. Gene Bornac is Chief Strategy Officer at enVista.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

26, 2023, comes despite Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s February 2023 announcement that the retailer would halt expansion of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store footprints. Amazon had announced plans to close eight Amazon Go stores in March 2023 and reportedly closed a Seattle location in June 2023. The opening, which took place Sept.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this role, he is responsible for Manhattan’s product plans across all applications and leads Manhattan’s user experience product design organization. And luckily, it’s arrived just in time for Walmart’s most recent RFID mandate. Brian Kinsella is Manhattan Associates ’ SVP of Product Management.

Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

JD Sports , a global retailer with more than 3,000 stores worldwide, has adopted a suite of solutions designed to boost its growth in Canada, a market the retailer entered in 2021. The company currently operates 23 stores in Canada under the JD , size? The Retail Management Suite from Jesta I.S.

Loss Prevention

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

According to a Capgemini study, 84% of consumers plan to use touchless technologies to avoid physical contact in stores during the pandemic. “This reflects our continued focus on innovation and finding new ways to help maintain the safety of our customers and employees.”.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using the Amazon “Just Walk Out” technology, Grubhub Campus has introduced cashierless checkout at convenience stores at Loyola University Maryland. Students, faculty and staff scan a QR code to enter the store, pick their items and leave, with the payment deducted from their student meal plan or other stored payment methods.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

After a customer pays at a register or via the Scan & Go mobile payment solution, a combination of computer vision and digital technology deployed in stores’ exit areas captures images of their cart and verifies payment for all items within a shopper’s basket.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

The retailer will deploy the Stripe Terminal at more than 600 stores, and Stripe will simplify online checkout by allowing shoppers to seamlessly pay for items with funds from their bank accounts using Link and Stripe Financial Connections.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

Mashgin plans to use the investment to grow its team, accelerate expansion and scale internationally. The Mashgin solution speeds checkout by reading multiple items simultaneously, although it requires shoppers to set their purchases down on the countertop devices’ base to operate. million in Series B funding at a $1.5

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The 35 brands that will be represented each have individual leases, but American Dream will staff the store, provide a shared checkout experience and host a loyalty program. The “AD” in the store’s name refers to “American Dream.”) 14 for one floor of a planned two-floor space. The ADdress will have a “phase one” opening on Feb.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

Circle K will pilot a touchless autonomous checkout solution in one of its Phoenix locations and plans to add the technology to other store locations.

Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2023

Many business leaders, and retailers specifically, plan to increase their investment in digital technology for the frontline. However, employee shortages are forcing many organizations to prioritize capabilities that support operating efficiency and store performance over employee engagement and loyalty.

Employee Engagement

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

With the right operations and infrastructure systems, retailers will be able to leverage the vast capabilities derived from the computer vision and AI that power frictionless checkout, which produces rich data and insights that enable these additional tools.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Developing a Successful Smart Store Strategy Many retailer leaders will need to adjust their smart store strategies to some extent — whether they have a handful of advanced in-store capabilities or entirely automated storefronts. These adjustments begin at the earliest stages in the planning process.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

The retailer also has been adding new reasons for shoppers to visit its brick-and-mortar stores. An electronic waste recycling program that M.Video launched in summer 2019 is now available in 450 stores, with plans to add another 200 locations in 2021.

Payment Services