Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For retailers relying on critical IT systems to support both in-store and ecommerce sales, outages from significant weather events can have a big impact on business. As digital IT infrastructure has evolved, the hardware and software tools available to protect these assets also have advanced to help retailers maintain their balance.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2023

But is there anything your retail business can do to profit from AI? Retailers and brands spend weeks or months mapping new products and catalogs to online channels. With AI, those challenges disappear, allowing retailers to more quickly onboard new brands. When it comes to ecommerce, the answer is a resounding “yes.”

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Fabric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

“Inventory is fundamentally evil. You kind of want to manage it like you’re in the dairy business. Tim Cook, CEO at Apple For retailers, improving inventory health sounds simple enough. The balancing act involves optimizing stock levels to meet customer demand while efficiently managing costs. Let’s dive in!

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Sensormatic Solutions ’ TrueVUE Cloud was designed to help global retail enterprises reach and maintain inventory accuracy and fulfillment for customers across all channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Retailers need to handle inventory in stores and distribution centers, keep an eye on both digital and physical shelves and keep costs down with efficient logistics and routing.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Ever visited a retail customer service desk looking for a specific item and been told “The system says there are three in stock, but if they aren’t on the shelf, we don’t know where they are.”? Most shoppers have been in this frustrating position at least once (and most retailers, daily). Get visibility into buying velocity.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Shoppers’ retail preferences will be unlike anything we’ve seen even just a year ago. These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: 1: Retailers are testing brands, hiding the parent brand. It’s still retail, but it’s not.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

Amid rising costs and fears of a looming recession, however, online retailers are finding they can no longer afford the level of generosity that customers have come to expect. retailers were revisiting their returns policies as of late 2022. With numbers like these, it’s no wonder that most U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

At the same time, retailers are harkening back to a time in the not-so-distant past when holding too much inventory was considered an unforgivable sin. In traditional retail, you always want to minimize your inventory holding costs to avoid paying for something you might not be able to sell.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tens of thousands of retail professionals from all over the world will fill New York City’s Javits Center for Retail’s Big Show from Jan. Other retail execs sharing their secrets and success stories represent brands including Crocs, Claire’s, Sephora, Pacsun, The Vitamin Shoppe and L.L.Bean. 13 to 16, 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Siman Group , which operates 15 large department stores across Central America, has deployed an item-level RFID solution that has raised its inventory accuracy levels from the 65% to 70% range up to 95%. The solution also supports omnichannel offerings such as BOPIS by transforming how Siman tracks inventory across the chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

The past few years have been a rollercoaster ride for the retail industry. A survey from this year’s World Retail Congress suggests that the uncertain times aren’t over for the industry. A survey from this year’s World Retail Congress suggests that the uncertain times aren’t over for the industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2022

Supply chain software provider ToolsGroup aims to help retailers plan and optimize sourcing and stock with the ToolsGroup Localized Assortment Planning and Allocation solution. Mi9 Retail Demand Management, which became part of ToolsGroup in November 2021, offers additional assortment planning and dynamic allocation capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the last several years, retailers have increased the speed with which they have built online and mobile app presence. With this evolution into digital sales and the increased use of data mining, retailers are facing unprecedented challenges in digital security.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2022

enter new geographies and develop its store and inventory management software application suite, StoreOS. The technology aims to enable frictionless checkout, real-time inventory tracking and other technologies. “By The investment was led by Singapore investment firm Temasek and 83North.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2023

Academy Sports + Outdoors will extend its use of Revionics’ pricing intelligence software. Revionics software allows Academy to take a customer-centric and data-driven approach to pricing,” said Govind Madhu, SVP Merchandise Planning and Allocation at Academy in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2023

For consumer-packaged goods (CPG) brands wanting to lead their category at major retailers, it’s critical to be strategic and adaptable with a logistics strategy. While many brands try to shave pennies off transactional transportation costs, that won’t drive long-term success in retail locations. on-time in-full. on-time in-full.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

Connecting the world of physical objects into a smart network, IoT technology brings new business opportunities for retailers and provides data-driven insights for decision-makers. According to Grand View Research , the global IoT retail market was valued at $42.38 Inventory management. from 2023 to 2030.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

By necessity, retailers are most concerned with the present day: they have to make sales and engage customers in the moment, no matter what channel they’re operating in. But retail executives also need to prepare for the future (no mean feat in an era of rapid and unexpected change).

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

Retailers embracing Generative AI can stay ahead of the curve and compete in this ever-changing competitive landscape — enabling them to lead with a customer-first approach while operating with more efficiency. With AI, retailers can easily generate full-sentence product descriptions when they are creating items in their inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

While it’s often lumped into the “retailer” category, clearly that is no longer Amazon’s core identifier. Here’s a look at how Amazon is moving even further away from the domain of retailer with the debut of new services in supply chain management, shipping, banking, market research, product development, inventory management and more.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Retailers need to ensure shoppers always have access to the product they want, where they want it, or else they risk losing loyalty in a difficult environment. Advanced RFID capabilities have been implemented in 40 stores and the retailer is in the process of rolling them out chainwide. But if you look at sizes, that varies a lot.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The rollout of 5G has the potential to transform the retail industry by ushering in a new era of connectivity and experience. The advancements it supports should alleviate many of the challenges that retailers have endured during the pandemic. By creating deeper, personalized experiences, retailers will be able to increase sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

The retailer will test inventory management technology in a sixth store. In addition to supporting its employees during the current labor shortage, Vallarta will use the robots to gather real-time inventory data, an important capability as retail continues to grapple with supply chain challenges.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2021

Zebra Technologies will acquire antuit.ai , a provider of AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions designed to assist with forecasting and merchandising in the retail and CPG industries. will serve as the planning and demand forecasting module within Zebra’s retail software portfolio.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2023

With the help of ChatGPT and Bard, the hype around generative AI has soared over the past few months, with experts shouting daily from the mountaintops about its potential to revolutionize the retail industry. One of the most common examples of AI in the retail industry today is in the use of chatbots to provide customer support.

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Algopix

MARCH 23, 2024

UPC scanners, also known as barcode scanners, offer a convenient way to manage inventory, list products, and fulfill orders with precision. By scanning the barcode, sellers can quickly access this information and input it into their inventory management systems or product listings.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2021

For Vietnamese retail management firm Au Chau Fashion and Cosmetic Company (ACFC) , the rapid adoption of online shopping spurred by COVID-19 store closures offered an opportunity to beef up the omnichannel experience across its suite of international brands. . ”

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Ecommerce Platforms

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As one of the most popular shipping apps for ecommerce order fulfillment, ShipStation often gets recommended for managing shipments, finding great deals from carriers, and sending tracking codes. ShipStation is a shipping platform for ecommerce store owners to manage all parcel shipments and tracking in one dashboard.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

The solution provider aims to meet the needs of modern, digitally connected retailers by offering solutions across shopper experience, inventory intelligence, loss prevention and operational effectiveness. Sensormatic Solutions has launched an enhanced Sensormatic IQ platform and transformative services.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

We’ve grown accustomed to these various retail touch points, and as a result, we’ve started to notice omnichannel inconsistencies that might never have occurred to us before — raising our own expectations of our favorite brands and retailers. For example, say you try on a white button-down in-store. Here’s how.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Established retailers exploring how a marketplace model would best fit into their business strategy have a common question — what’s the difference between dropship and marketplace fulfillment that utilizes third-party sellers, and how can it benefit their business? The answer is, quite a lot.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

A well-crafted data strategy is the elixir to growth, especially for fast-growing brands with a strong omnichannel strategy,” Lisbona said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. In 2019, Touchland closed deals with notable retail partners like Urban Outfitters , Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus.

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You want to keep costs low, improve efficiency, and move all that inventory to a location that’s close to your customers. Overall, you get top-of-the-line logistics software, discounts from major shipping partners, and free standard shipping materials, making ShipBob a rather appealing 3PL to consider. Advantages.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

The fundamental shift in retail toward blended digital commerce has created several hurdles for retailers still clinging to traditional blueprints. Modern Warehouse and Production Management Systems for Product Customization. Distributed Order Management Technology for a Unified Customer Experience.

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Algopix

JULY 1, 2023

With the rise of e-commerce and the availability of multiple online platforms and marketplaces, it can be challenging for businesses to effectively manage their listings and reach their target audience across different channels. The 20 Best Multichannel Listing Software You Shouldn’t Miss 1. What are Multi-Channel Listing Solutions?

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Algopix

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Inventory management is a critical aspect of running a successful business, whether you’re a small retailer or a large multinational corporation. In today’s fast-paced and competitive business environment, the efficient management of inventory can make or break a company.

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