Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2024

Microsoft has launched a new Retail Cloud Alliance (RCA) aimed at educating and empowering retailers to leverage cloud technology effectively. This collaborative program features Microsoft experts and resources alongside those from a number of partners, including Adobe , Amperity , Sunrise Technologies and Icertis.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Yet as more retailers turn to immersive customer experiences to create a competitive advantage, there is one major problem many are unprepared for: unreliable internet. To truly bring immersive experiences to life, retailers need to examine their tech stack closely. That’s where cloud-optional technology comes into play.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

The Home Depot has tapped two technology veterans for high-level positions, naming of Matt Carey as EVP of Customer Experience, a newly created role, and Fahim Siddiqui as EVP and CIO. Before that Carey worked for 20 years at Walmart with roles including SVP and CTO. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

Field service companies shouldn’t discount technology to help address staffing shortages. Predictive analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT) and AI run new technologies like management software. Leverage AI where you can.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customer experience (CX) optimization is a necessity for ecommerce retailers and other online businesses that want to convert visitors, drive sales and cultivate customer loyalty. In addition to missing elements, many sites have searches that operate under rules that are so strict they interfere with useful results.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Stitch Fix has hired a new Chief Product and Technology Officer to lead the struggling online personal styling service’s technology, product, data science, security and IT teams. Tony Bacos will begin today and report directly to CEO Matt Baer.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

While autonomous stores and technological innovation are high on the retail agenda, the infrastructure and operational efforts that enable them aren’t often given the same broad attention. But the value of laying a robust foundation for technological adoption extends beyond times of crisis.

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Payment Services Operations Banking Technology 219

Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Marketing leaders are investing in digital experience (DX) technologies including adtech, martech, and commerce tech to support their digital marketing, commerce, and customer experience initiatives. But many struggle to measure success due to a lack of relevant metrics.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This is where full-journey people tracking technology comes into play. Through AI-powered 3D sensors and people flow technology, you can individually and anonymously record the exact geolocation of all people within a physical environment every quarter second with sub-foot accuracy. What are they doing in-store?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

Since deployment, the solutions have become central to store operations. Technology is at the forefront of everything we do from an omnichannel perspective across the globe, and working with Zebra Technologies has been a game-changer for us,” said Jonas Stillman, Senior Director of Omnichannel Operations at Office Depot in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The letdown customers experience when their orders don’t arrive on time, or at all, results in uncertainty and distrust that’s difficult — if not impossible — to remedy. Retailers can expect that customers will turn to other vendors; once this happens, they’ve lost both the sale and the customer’s trust and loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

In fact, results from Retail TouchPoints’ latest Store Design & Experience Survey revealed that 58% of respondents plan to remodel and/or renovate a minimum of 11% of their store footprint through 2024. Leap is helping these brands rise to the occasion by leveraging its strategic relationships with operators.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

The essence and approach of this model and technology can be extrapolated and applied to different industries and technologies. And we push the limits using high-performing feature engineering technology that can successfully manage Big Data data marts, provide visibility for business intelligence users and guide marketing campaigns.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A great digital experience starts with the basics: a strategy for omnichannel engagement; great design; personalized, yet trustworthy, experiences; and, of course, the technology and operations to support it. Partners are key to that effort, particularly […].

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365 Retail

MAY 8, 2024

Frasers Group is embarking on a transformative journey to overhaul its digital landscape, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and the ecommerce experience for customers. The advanced platform will streamline operations such as inventory allocation, stock management, and product tracking.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While people have been shopping online for decades, it’s important to recognize that warehouses, as we know them, are still operating and organized to replenish the stock in brick-and-mortar stores. Many warehouse operations are looking to technology to upgrade every facet of their daily operations. A Well-Oiled Machine.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon has incorporated RFID capabilities into its Just Walk Out cashierless technology to handle the sale of apparel and fan gear at two Seattle sports venues. RFID tags placed on jerseys, hats and other items allow customers to carry out (and even wear out) their purchases without standing in line to check out.

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RTP blog

JUNE 1, 2018

They deliver differentiated experiences and have re-imagined the function of their physical space. Retailers are delivering differentiated customer experiences through investment in store technology, people and process. Executives know that “disruptive technology” is on the 2018 agenda but often don’t know how to execute.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The landscape of commerce and delivering customer experience changed dramatically over the past year, as millions of shoppers found health, safety, social distance and remote work taking center stage in their daily lives. So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2024

By using an AI-enabled software solution to pre-cool the store before a planned energy reduction, the retailer ensures the event doesn’t impact customer comfort. This enables an “ S 3 ” strategy that improves the Safety, Service and Sustainability of their multi-site retail operations and impacts their top and bottom lines.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

While many holiday shoppers favor online experiences to avoid waiting in endless checkout lines or battling over parking spaces, many now face competition from a new challenger: automated bad bots. The bot operators then resell the goods at a higher margin to make a profit. A Roadmap to a Bad Bot-Free Holiday Shopping Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2023

But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. Customers also can schedule deliveries for a specific time, which is particularly helpful with pharmacy items. Another technology that has boosted convenience is a real-time in-store communications solution from Theatro.

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Payment Services Operations Omnichannel Fulfillment 238

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

Within the larger global market, McKinsey estimates that the retail and CPG sectors have the most to gain from AI , with potential to harness the tech and drive huge improvements in operational efficiency as well as the customer and employee experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Shopping center operators are facing a new call to action: Evolve and elevate your experiences or lose your customers forever. We’re pivoting away from being a real estate company and leaning into being an experience company,” said Stephen Yalof, CEO of Tanger Outlets in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

To address these compounding problems, retailers need to re-evaluate their operating priorities by focusing on cost-cutting measures that also enhance customer experiences, such as through automation, AI or other tech. Even further, recent survey data from FIS’ Global Innovation Report found that 83% of U.S.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Retail Customer Experience 338

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Mall operator Simon revealed big plans to expand its Woodbury Common Premium Outlet center in Fall 2023, including the addition of 155,000 square feet of retail stores and restaurants, a 200 -key luxury hotel, a second parking facility and upgraded amenities. powered AI technology to assist shoppers during the 2023 holiday season.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 27, 2018

Great customer service helps control costs as companies squeeze out operational efficiencies. It also fuels sustainable top-line revenue growth by providing differentiated experiences that keep customers loyal to your brand.

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lateshipment

AUGUST 1, 2022

The benefits of automation are clear for the business as a whole, and automation can also transform the customer experience even when the customer isn’t directly involved. Shopping and checkout experiences can be managed directly by the customer, but that’s only half of the overall order experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2024

Generative AI (Gen AI) has brought about a seismic shift that’s reshaping customer interactions and business operations. Gen AI, with its vast potential for enhancing efficiency and personalizing customer experiences, also comes with ethical considerations.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the first usage of Amazon ’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology by a non-Amazon international retailer, Sainsbury’s has deployed the cashierless solution in its Holborn Circus convenience store. Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2024

In today’s increasingly globalized market, multilingual support is no longer a luxury but a necessity for online retailers to deliver exceptional customer experiences (CX), successfully serve and grow their customer bases, increase sales and thrive in a competitive landscape. The true differentiator is CX.

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iVend

JUNE 15, 2022

Customers took to social media to vent their frustration about price differentials of up to 40%, and the confusion of some items being more expensive online than in-store, and vice versa. For a retailer that has enjoyed an enviably strong reputation with the shopping public, this retail customer experience was a big blow to its reputation.

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365 Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Artificial intelligence (A)-driven in-store workforce scheduling solution, Orquest , has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Innovation Awards by the Retail Technology Show. It enhances retail operational efficiency, fosters frontline team well-being and delivers an optimised customer experience.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Is it about digital customer experiences? Digital operations? What does the term “Digital Transformation” mean to you? Transforming business models? Leveraging software ecosystems? Is it a floor wax? A dessert topping? Digital Transformation” as a term loses meaning when it involves everything under the sun.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Perry Ellis is managing this challenge through the rollout of RFID technology, in partnership with Mojix , that will help the retailer manage its supply chain from the store level all the way through broader inventory planning. Having RFID-tagged items also drives efficiency and a great customer experience on a moment-by-moment basis.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There is no denying that modern retail technology – and digitisation of the retail sector – is transforming everything about what shoppers want and how a retail organisation operates. Store associates are at the coalface of the bricks and mortar customer experience journey and play a key part in the digitisation of retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

This surging demand has exposed fulfilment inefficiencies and sent retailers scrambling to power their delivery operations. So how can companies scale delivery while ensuring great customer experience and operational efficiency? Forrester reports that by 2023, ecommerce will drive two-thirds of retail growth.

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