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5G can reduce wasted time and prevent inventory shrinkage, providing retailers with cost savings. A pallet of goods can be tracked from departure at the manufacturing site through transit to the store. Delivery and stocking experiences: 5G can support massive IoT connectivity, which can be used to improve product tracking capabilities.
While airports are “public spaces” and micro markets have traditionally been in “closed environments,” the risk of shrinkage outweighs the cost of employee overhead, and since people have already been through security this provides a perception of oversight.
Roaming checkout enables employees to take payments from shoppers from anywhere inside the store. To curb shrinkage, self-pay via an app is used to let shoppers and guests purchase items themselves. They simply scan the item or put it in their cart on their phone, pay and walk out with item in tow.
Many retailers see a 4x return on their initial investment within a few months, thanks to broad applications spanning storeoperations, supply chain, e-commerce, and vendor relationships. AI can save up to 30 weekly labor hours per store, improving associate satisfaction and retention while reducing shrinkage.
They help retailers ensure they have the right goods in the right place at the right time, improving store performance and enhancing customer experience. Reduce spoilage and shrinkage – carrying excess stock of perishable or seasonal items risks those goods becoming unsaleable (except, perhaps at a large discount).
According to the NRF National Retail Study 2018 , inventory shrinkage costs the U.S. RFID technology can provide a technological solution to retailers by supplying knowledge of where the item went missing, allowing them to mitigate the impact of shrinkage by adjusting inventory levels to replace missing or out of stock items.
Point of sale storeoperations – customers want fast and friction-free checkout, and retailers need to know what has been sold. Loss prevention – in the US alone, retailers lose around $100 million a year to shrinkage, + which is a direct hit on the bottom line.
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