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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Traditionally, online retailers mainly make use of two sensory channels to offer their customer an experience: the visual sense and the auditory sense. This is no longer science fiction. virtual reality).

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Digital Commerce and the Threat of Card-not-present Fraud

BigCommerce

Consumers shop more and more across a variety of devices and channels. Retailers continually optimize their sales channels to deliver more seamless consumer experiences. EMV technology – a chip embedded within credit and debit cards that is generally harder to clone than the traditional magnetic strip of a card.

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Leveraging Technology, Data, and Relationships in Category Management

Wiser

Category management in retail has evolved significantly over the past two decades, reflecting broader changes in technology, consumer behavior, and market dynamics. This approach includes reducing unnecessary additives and presenting products in a way that highlights their natural and wholesome qualities.

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Quantifying Coronavirus (COVID-19) For The Technology Channel

Forrester eCommerce

CDC presented four possible scenarios — A, B, C and D — based on characteristics of the […]. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred in February about what might happen if the new coronavirus gained a foothold in the United States.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Faced with an endless number of brands, product options and channels to shop through, consumers are looking for the perfect combination of “value” and “values.” Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How have shifts in consumer behaviors and expectations impacted the way retailers invest in technology? But has it changed their priorities at all?

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Moving from Monologues to Conversations: How Brands are Driving Innovation with Unified Commerce Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

This concept of starting with a deep understanding of the customer (at times more deeply even than they understand themselves) and building from that point is also the basic premise of retail’s latest technological and philosophical movement — unified commerce. They just want what they want when they want it.

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2024 Predictions and Trends in B2B Ecommerce: Navigating the Digital Evolution

Retail TouchPoints

As 2024 unfolds, the B2B ecommerce sector is undergoing significant transformation driven by technological advancements and shifting buyer behaviors. Here we’ll take a look at these trending technologies and how they will shape B2B businesses’ ability to deliver a frictionless experience with their digitally native buyers.

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