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Retailers Get Real with AI: Four AI-Powered Apps We’ll See this Year

Retail TouchPoints

He is also an adjunct professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he teaches innovation and growth strategy. Kraemer speaks regularly at events such as Shoptalk, Design Thinking Conference, World Forum Disrupt and the IDSA International Design Conference.

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Brick and Mortar to Ecommerce and Back Again

Optimizely

At Shopify’s (re)Unite Virtual Conference , they shared a jarring yet equally hopeful statistic: From the onset of COVID-19, 71% of retail sales processed through Shopify POS have disappeared. But 94% of those lost in-store sales have been replaced with Ecommerce sales.

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Walgreens Exec: Operational Excellence Makes 1-Hour Delivery Promise a Reality

Retail TouchPoints

For example, at launch [associates picking an order] had to stop at the store’s POS and scan a QR code, and when you’re doing a significant amount of volume and there are other customers in the line,” the time needed for these tasks adds up quickly. “So population within five miles of a Walgreens store. “The

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Customer Story: Downtown Books in Dothan, Alabama

Korona

We caught up with Downtown Books co-owner Troy Fountain about opening a local bookstore, how his community received them, and the operational tools that KORONA POS has afforded him. Why Did They Need a POS System? How Has KORONA POS Helped Them Run Their Business? Inventory Management. What Is Downtown Books?

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. More Mobile Deployments for Store Associates and Managers Mobile solutions empower managers to get out of stores’ back offices and onto the floor.

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RFID Retail Benefits: A Guide For 2023

Korona

In the retail industry today, RFID is used most frequently in inventory management, but there are other common applications, too. Inventory Management Many retail businesses have invested in RFID technology in order to increase the accuracy and efficiency of their inventory management.

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2 Ways Retailers Plan to Cut into Amazon’s Retail Media Lead: Stores and Closed Loop Measurement

Retail TouchPoints

“We’re seeing retailers link up directly with publishers and media companies, and so we’ve seen an increasing number of streaming TV partnerships,” said Andrew Lipsman, Principal Analyst for Retail and Ecommerce at Insider Intelligence during a recent session at the Retail Innovation Conference and Expo (RICE).

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