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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. If one store finds lightning in a bottle, there needs to be a way to replicate that in other stores. #2: Recruiting the right talent is about more than just filling positions.

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

RTP blog

Up to 90% of consumers use their phone while shopping in stores and retailers are increasingly enhancing digital transformation strategies to take advantage of the new mobile-powered shopping era across every vertical, from department stores and supermarkets to hardware, sports and specialty retailing.

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Retailers, Reach For The Minimum By 2020

RTP blog

By nearly anyone’s measure, the Amazonian effect on retail can be considered a massive coronary to the industry. To make matters worse for legacy retailers, along came the Warby Parkers, the Amazons, the Caspers and other previously online-only pure plays, all of which have enjoyed fairly immediate success in brick-and-mortar.

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

Ecommerce Platforms

Store management and payment processing – the two functions that pretty sum up what you should expect from a POS system. In other words, leveraging an efficient point of sale system software should help you streamline all your in-store operations. The two have been built to complement each other in several different ways.