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How Hydra Health is Transforming the Hospital Gift Shop

Retail TouchPoints

To ensure they’re focusing on the right products and experiential elements, Hydra Health conducts a series of focus groups with people it knows will be using the spaces daily. For example, offering fast and convenient payment experiences via mobile devices or even employee badges takes cues from airport retail’s “scan and go” models.

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Shopify vs Vend (2023): Which Solution Should You Choose?

Ecommerce Platforms

Shopify vs Vend, which solution is best for your business? The first thing worth noting is that Vend (now part of the Lightspeed family) is a dedicated Point of Sale solution, or POS service, designed to optimize retail operations. Go to the top What is Vend? Let’s dive into our complete comparison. What is Shopify?

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Nike Returns to its Oregon Roots with Latest ‘Live’ Store Design

Retail TouchPoints

The new strategy came as no surprise; the company already had pulled its products off Amazon in late 2019 as part of an ongoing pivot to focus on growth via its own channels, paring back the number of retailers it partners with and investing more in its own stores, website and mobile apps. A Store Design That Honors the Local Community.

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Making Fulfillment a Revenue Driver: 6 Ways Design and Tech Can Collaborate

Retail TouchPoints

Currently, these groups exist in their own silos — a common challenge that still exists for most retail organizations. For example, many retailers rely on mobile technology to facilitate their curbside pickup operations.

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12 Proven Product-Page Ideas to Increase Your Ecommerce Conversion Rate

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Make mobile conversions a priority. How to Take Pictures That Attract and Convert Customers , from Vend. Research from Google in 2018 showed that 53% of mobile users will abandon a site that takes longer than three seconds to load. Make sure you optimize your site for mobile. Make mobile conversions a priority.

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How To Start a Food Truck Business? A Step-by-Step Guide

Korona

You should also be aware of your city or state’s rules and regulations regarding the location of mobile food vendors. Mobile food facility (or unit) permit. The mobile food facility permit is a permit issued in some areas by the local parks department rather than the health department, although it still has a food safety aspect.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

Now that American retailers are shuttering stores and losing billions of dollars because of shrink, it is time for a sharper focus on the “journey” of another group entirely — retail criminals. Thieves do not exactly use the POS system, sign up for loyalty cards or freely offer their mobile numbers to get discounts.