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Hudson Expands Global Loyalty Program to North America

Retail TouchPoints

Travel retailer Hudson , a Dufry company, has rolled out its loyalty program to its more than 1,000 stores across North America. By accumulating points, members can achieve the 7% discount that comes with Gold status and the 10% off provided to Platinum members.

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GIANT Launches Frictionless Checkout at Associates-Only C-Store

Retail TouchPoints

GIANT has added frictionless just walk out technology at a grab-and-go convenience store located at its Philadelphia ecommerce fulfillment center. It’s a particularly relevant capability for a location like this, where team members would otherwise need to travel off site to purchase food products.”.

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Walmart Canada Will Invest $3.5 Billion To Modernize Stores, DCs And Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Walking the Line: How a Post-Pandemic Retail Hybrid Might Make the Best of Both Worlds

Retail TouchPoints

Local reach will become more important, as many shoppers remain hesitant to travel long distances and instead choose to patronize their surrounding vendors. Considering the above, it’s clear that retailers will be best positioned to fulfill the needs of the new post-COVID consumer with a hybrid approach to physical and virtual space.

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How Businesses Can Prepare For The Evolving Commerce Landscape

RTP blog

Because you’re traveling to NYC in a couple days and you don’t want to pay for express shipping, you select the checkout option that lets you buy online and pick up in-store at the location near your hotel in NYC. You go in, find a sweater that you love but can’t find it in the right size.

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Next-gen vending machines: 5 reasons intelligent vending is trending in ecommerce

GetElastic

Using vending machines as hyper-local micro-fulfillment centers for last-mile delivery is perhaps the one use case Amazon hasn’t already patented. While obvious use cases for vending machine fulfillment include meals and grocery, anything that is typically couriered is fair game -- think office supplies, auto parts and other B2B goods.

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Next-gen vending machines: 5 reasons intelligent vending is trending in ecommerce

GetElastic

Using vending machines as hyper-local micro-fulfillment centers for last-mile delivery is perhaps the one use case Amazon hasn’t already patented. While obvious use cases for vending machine fulfillment include meals and grocery, anything that is typically couriered is fair game — think office supplies, auto parts and other B2B goods.

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