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Even Your Shopping Cart isn’t Sacred

Bryan Eisenberg

Birth of the Shopping Cart. The first rolling shopping cart was created by a Piggly Wiggly owner in Oklahoma City. So in 1936, that store owner introduced a rolling cart to make shopping easier. In CRO terms, he reduced the friction of shopping to increase average order size. They don’t.

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Which Shopping Cart is Best for Your Business?

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Well, this is why shopping carts like Shopify ang BigCommerce exist. A shopping cart is a type of ecommerce software that helps website visitors purchase items online. With the many options on the market these days, how do you choose the right shopping cart for you? Abandoned cart saver. E-University.

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Computer Vision and AI: the new weapon against shoplifters

365 Retail

Inferring meaningful information from digital images and videos: retailers’ hopes to have a new, highly efficient tool against shoplifting, loss and organised crime in future are based on Computer Vision, a sub-segment of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The recorded video sequences are matched with pre-defined loss scenarios in the background.

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Walmart and Meredith Cook Up Wide-Ranging Shoppable Content Partnership

Retail TouchPoints

Meredith’s natural language processing and machine learning technology will then give a personalized suggestion for a complete meal solution available at Walmart for pickup and delivery; and A social commerce promotion , in which popular Allrecipes videos become shoppable via Walmart with ads on TikTok.

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Every Marketing Reel Needs a Hook — Automated Testing Sharpens It

Retail TouchPoints

Every year, retail brands miss out on potential revenue to the tune of $18 billion (according to Forrester research) thanks to abandoned carts. That doesn’t mean rude people ditching their physical shopping carts in the parking lot, but millions of consumers being lost in the online purchase funnel for a variety of reasons.

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Harry Rosen Goes ‘Headless’ to Support Digital Service Shift

Retail TouchPoints

But with the industry’s “great digital shift” accelerated by COVID-19, retailers have had to find ways to use technology to support their people — especially store stylists. Customers now can connect one-to-one with their preferred stylists from their homes by participating in online and video chats.

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How to Protect Against Rising Organized Retail Crime

Retail TouchPoints

For example, more stores are installing panic buttons to make it easier and quicker for staff to notify a Security Operations Center (SOC) that a crime is in progress, so they can monitor what’s happening via video and determine how to respond. ALPR technology has become not only more powerful but also less expensive and easier to install.

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