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The Future of Shopping: What to Expect in 2032

Retail TouchPoints

By 2032, digital will be the most important area of their business, and sectors that today have remained relatively untouched — motor vehicles and parts, convenience stores, furniture/home furnishing stores, building material, and more — will have reinvented their digital posture and orientation.

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City Furniture Overhauls Ecommerce Approach to Create Highly Customized Shopper Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

The home furnishing and accent retailer, which operates 20 showrooms and 13 Ashley Home Store showroom licenses in Florida, partnered with cloud commerce provider Kibo , which offered a flexible ecommerce technology that would allow CITY Furniture to develop and support highly customized customer journeys and a fluid shopping-cart experience.

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City Furniture Overhauls Ecommerce Approach to Create Highly Customized Shopper Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

The home furnishing and accent retailer, which operates 20 showrooms and 13 Ashley Home Store showroom licenses in Florida, partnered with cloud commerce provider Kibo , which offered a flexible ecommerce technology that would allow CITY Furniture to develop and support highly customized customer journeys and a fluid shopping-cart experience.

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4 Ways Retailers Use Digital Technology to Improve the Brick-and-Mortar Experience

Sailthru

more retail stores will close, with apparel, electronics and home furnishings being hit especially hard. The catch is that consumers favor physical stores that are enhanced by technology. Beacons allow mobile apps (on both iOS and Android devices) to listen for signals from “beacons” in the physical world.

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AR and VR in retail: do shoppers buy the hype?

GetElastic

With ecommerce poised to become mobile AR’s largest revenue stream, 32% of brands and retailers plan to use AR or VR within 3 years and 45% believe AR and VR has the most potential to amplify their customer experience. Augmented reality is particularly attractive thanks to lower costs and (relatively) easy integration with mobile apps.

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John Lewis signs deal with Tesco for warehouse space in online sales push

365 Retail

We will use the Fenny Lock site to fulfil customer orders for fashion, small home furnishing items and technology products.”. The company has committed to a £50 million investment in its website and mobile app, with a further £100 million due to be spent over five years for online growth.

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

retailnext

Today, I’m going to dive into some of the technology empowering the Customer Channel in physical retail. Technology is at the foundation of this decade’s transformation. Can you be a home furnishings retailer without compelling 3D product visualization and customization? TECHNOLOGY. I think not. Social commerce.

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