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Three Lessons Grocers can Learn from Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Offering locally sourced specialty foods and artisanal products helps entice new customers and size up against grocers that compete exclusively on price. The grocery industry has been lucky not to have the pendulum swing from the COVID closures of specialty retail.

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Hudson Uses COVID Shutdown to Shave 5 Months off Transaction Platform Deployment

Retail TouchPoints

At the beginning of 2020, Hudson kicked off its deployment of the Flooid platform to provide a new backbone for all transactions across its 1,010 travel convenience stores and specialty retail, which includes proprietary book and tech stores, duty-free shops and food and beverage concessions. and Canada.

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The Labor Shortage: Is Your Brand Simply Surviving or Thinking About its Long-Term Impact?

Retail TouchPoints

Now, with the surge in mobile orders, it’s nearly impossible to estimate your wait time. The surge in mobile orders has not only taken away clarity from customers but has also tanked confidence. Customers are showing up to pick up and order in-store and finding out only the drive-thru service is open.

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Viva La Retail: The Retail Renaissance Lives And Dies By The Connected Consumer

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By Derek Peterson, Boingo Wireless A retail renaissance is upon us, driven by a shift in economics, competition and exponential advancement in technology, per a new report from Deloitte. Mobile has emerged as the crown jewel fueling the resurgence, as digital devices are now central to the in-store shopping experience.

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Can Modern CRM be the Lifeline Retail is Looking for?

Retail TouchPoints

This new dynamic requires a reimaging of the standard customer relationship management (CRM) software that retailers have typically used to offer customers a basic level of personalization. Customers don’t want to be managed anymore; they want to be delighted. The Road Ahead for Retail.

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Retailers, Reach For The Minimum By 2020

RTP blog

While a whopping 84% of e-Commerce and pure-play retailers consider themselves to be thriving , only 40% of specialty retailers, 35% of big boxes, 25% of discount stores, and 17% of department stores claim to be. The retail bar has been re-set, and there are new table stakes. Expand POS to include mobile payments.

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Retail Marketers Want What Email Offers

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Meanwhile, surveyed retailers said that managing the increasing costs of their current advertising channels was the second-highest priority, behind differentiating from competitors. In the survey, 93% of respondents said “mobile content” was critical, important, or relevant to their holiday product presentation strategies.