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Retail Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow

Teamwork Retail

Early marketplaces and bazaars were simply gathering spots where farmers, hunters, and traveling merchants would trade goods. To service this higher level of commerce in burgeoning urban centers, the department store was born. The department store was the first iteration of what we now consider modern retail shopping.

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Retail Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow

Teamwork Retail

Early marketplaces and bazaars were simply gathering spots where farmers, hunters, and traveling merchants would trade goods. To service this higher level of commerce in burgeoning urban centers, the department store was born. The department store was the first iteration of what we now consider modern retail shopping.

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Retail Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow

Teamwork Retail

Early marketplaces and bazaars were simply gathering spots where farmers, hunters, and traveling merchants would trade goods. To service this higher level of commerce in burgeoning urban centers, the department store was born. The department store was the first iteration of what we now consider modern retail shopping.

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19 Omnichannel Experience Examples from Top Brands

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They’ve also brought their online experience in-store by having their website accessible at POS. A well-known retailer headquartered in Ohio, Macy’s is a standout among the more traditional department store formats who successfully weathered the retail storm by incorporating more digital assets into the customer experience.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

Thieves do not exactly use the POS system, sign up for loyalty cards or freely offer their mobile numbers to get discounts. But internal investigations, third-party studies by loss-prevention experts and deep dives into security footage could provide useful data, including greater clarity into a retailer’s “core shoplifters,” store by store.

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How MDM Helps Retailers Protect the Bottom Line

Retail TouchPoints

Next stop — your favorite department store to pick out an outfit for a work trip later in the week. The store is quite busy, so you flag down a salesperson and they help you check out from a mobile point-of-sale (POS) system.

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