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Engaging Customers Beyond the Point of Sale with Mobile Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

If you are only engaging the user at the point of sale, you’re not actually addressing all of their needs. Further boost their retention and repeat purchase rates by giving them the VIP treatment with early or exclusive access to products, personalized discounts, social media shoutouts and invites to special events.

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Key Disaster Preparedness Takeaways for Retailers from an Eventful Summer

Retail TouchPoints

Amid record-breaking heat waves this past summer, many communities faced some intense weather events that caused significant power outages. For retailers relying on critical IT systems to support both in-store and ecommerce sales, outages from significant weather events can have a big impact on business.

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Gift Shop Operator Event Network Begins Transition to Mobile POS

Retail TouchPoints

Destination retailer Event Network — which operates gift shops for aquariums, zoos, museums, science centers, botanical gardens and other cultural attractions — has upgraded to a mobile point-of-service (POS) system and adopted a new cloud infrastructure as it continues its digital transformation.

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The Best POS (Point of Sale) Systems for 2019: The Ultimate Guide

Ecommerce Platforms

In other words, leveraging an efficient point of sale system software should help you streamline all your in-store operations. Today’s commerce environment has a wide range of solutions for brick-and-mortar stores, most of which are essentially multifaceted point of sale systems. But, here’s the thing. billion by 2023.

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Amazon’s Cashierless Checkout Tech Makes Inroads at Events Venues

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon is continuing to expand the reach of its Just Walk Out (JWO) cashierless checkout tech with a particular focus on events-based venues.

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How Does a POS System Work? 5 Common Point of Sale Questions

Korona

A point of sale system used to be a cash register that simply took account of the sales of the day and organized the bills into sections. The current main function of point of sale systems remains the same. – Point of Sale Components. Which Point of Sale Product Is Best For Your Business?

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Creating Experiential Campaigns with Cloud-Optional Technology

Retail TouchPoints

Today, point-of-sale devices and iPads are commonly used edge devices that can compute data locally and then send important information back to the cloud. Reducing reliance on the internet is necessary for events held in remote areas or stores in rural locations. To help, retailers are transitioning to edge computing.