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Canadian Home Furnishings Retailer Bouclair Deploys New POS Solution

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The PredictSpring solution includes both stationary and mobile POS applications along with clienteling, omnichannel commerce and inventory management capabilities.

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Address Labor Shortages by Creating Attractive Retail Career Paths

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Kotlyar predicted that remote consultations with associates will expand beyond apparel into the electronics and home furnishings verticals. FaceTime and texting are becoming the way that retail employees will provide customer service to customers,” she noted.

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The Future of the Mall: Why Developers are Rethinking Everything from Tenant Mix to Events and ‘Adjacencies’

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On a micro level, we try to complement apparel with intimates, we have a very strong exposure to home furnishing in our Cady’s Alley design district, plus entertainment, health and beauty, and we would like to expand on unique food and beverage tenants that define the character of our district.”

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NRF 2023 Spotlights Profitability, Workforce Enhancements and Media Network Opportunities

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[But] siloed data is a huge issue to solve for here; 50% of our customers start their search online and then come into the stores. We’re navigating [putting] ads with the customer experience, but gently; [we want it to be] additive to the customer experience.” — Aaron Dunford, Sr.

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RetailX Virtual: How 4 Digital-First Retailers Leverage Tech To Enhance Human Connections

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people in operations, customer service and its live chat recommendations teams to keep up. Resident Leverages Data To Deliver Customers To Retailers. I’m curious to see what happens with legacy retailers’ omnichannel strategies as we go forward,” Means said. The company hired more than 500.

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China’s Antimonopoly Fine Leads to First Quarterly Loss for Alibaba Since Going Public

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We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”. Overall, online physical goods GMV grew 21% YoY in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the FMCG [ fast moving consumer goods ] and home furnishings categories.

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Holiday Season 2020 Will be Different. Here’s How

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According to Deloitte’s 2019 holiday survey , customers planned to spend over 74% of their holiday budget on retail for clothing, home furnishing, gifts, etc. and the rest on travel and socializing away from home. Have an omnichannel approach. Supply-chain issues. Handle and counter delivery issues such as delays.