Digital retail theater is becoming reality for consumers as retailers rush to find ways of attracting and retaining store customers. What is digital retail theater? MORE
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Becuase it gives shoppers back significant time savings and it gives retailers potentially enormous costs savings. Amazon's new Amazon Go store ushers in a new era in brick and mortar grocery and convenience shopping. In the early 80's, electronic point of sale (POS) dramatically changed the checkout experience in grocery stores, speeding up checkout lines. MORE
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The vast amount of big data that supermarkets and grocery retailers now have at their disposal is set to have a critical role to play in who wins out on market share in this highly competitive industry. Enhanced data analytics enable the retailers to make rapid buying decisions to enhance the customer experience. Enhanced data analytics enable the retailers to make quick business decisions, improving customer satisfaction and the customer experience. Sanjeev Sularia. MORE
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Computer Weekly looks over how the shifting consumer landscape has changed the retail industry during 2016, with increased collaboration, growing consumer power, and mergers and acquisitions MORE
As we start the sprint to this year's holiday shopping season, I had hoped to start to see the disappearance of the store-centric mentality that has hurt so much of retail for years. This is best illustrated by complaints — from the likes of Target, Walmart and Home Depot — that they are being victimized by showrooming with Amazon. It was a bogus argument from the start. MORE
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retail digital retail in-store checkout PaymentsMobile self-checkout technology promises to not only streamline the physical checkout experience, but more importantly, to bring an augmented digital shopping experience to the physical store. When mobile self-checkout shoppers scan items to put in their physical baskets, digital business leaders will have real-time digital basket data to drive more relevant up-sell, cross-sell, and contextual […]. MORE
Consumers want retailers to implement applications that can be used in-store to offer personalisation and convenience MORE
His post is also relevant to non-retail organizations and even government. The problem is that pricing is a bigger issue in US retail than anyone suspects. Our insights into the US retail ecosystem – based on real-time, comprehensive data feeds – proves that the majority of ecommerce sites are very slow at refreshing online prices. Sanjeev Sularia. MORE
Legacy IT systems are making it more difficult for retailers to collect and use customer data to improve services MORE
Shopping has changed – consumers now want to be able to shop in-store or online, wherever and whenever they want, but the problem is many retailers still don’t see the two roads intersecting, which means they are losing out when it comes to sales. There are retailers that have managed to create a smooth omni-channel experience between online and store, such as Apple for example. Sanjeev Sularia. MORE
A breach settlement with 47 US states has taken the cost of the 2013 data breach at retailer Target to more than $220m MORE
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Another company in Ascent’s portfolio, Vee24, provides live video chat technology allowing brands and retailers to connect in real time with customers over the web, on mobile devices, and in-stores, using voice, video chat, text chat, and co-browsing. MORE
Data breach statistics show retailers need to address customer data security ahead of the GDPR compliance deadline, a law firm has warned MORE
Europol and MasterCard hold a retail cyber attack simulation exercise to raise awareness of the issue and how to respond to attacks, as well as promote information sharing in the sector MORE
Retailers have this love-hate relationship with EMV, in that they love to hate EMV. With that in mind, it's easy to understand why major retailers — Walmart last month and Home Depot last week — are suing Visa and MasterCard in an attempt to fight chip cards any way they can. Of course, the retail argument isn't quite phrased that way. It's slow, cumbersome, alienates customers and until a store fully deploys it, the liability shift is expensive. MORE
In fact, some retailers added video production to their existing photography process and they're using the same equipment. Because of this, video ranks among the top new initiatives where retailers plan to invest in 2016. retail. MORE
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Digital retail theater is becoming reality for consumers as retailers rush to find ways of attracting and retaining store customers. What is digital retail theater?
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The vast amount of big data that supermarkets and grocery retailers now have at their disposal is set to have a critical role to play in who wins out on market share in this highly competitive industry. Enhanced data analytics enable the retailers to make rapid buying decisions to enhance the customer experience. Enhanced data analytics enable the retailers to make quick business decisions, improving customer satisfaction and the customer experience. Sanjeev Sularia.
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Shopping has changed – consumers now want to be able to shop in-store or online, wherever and whenever they want, but the problem is many retailers still don’t see the two roads intersecting, which means they are losing out when it comes to sales. There are retailers that have managed to create a smooth omni-channel experience between online and store, such as Apple for example. Sanjeev Sularia.
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His post is also relevant to non-retail organizations and even government. The problem is that pricing is a bigger issue in US retail than anyone suspects. Our insights into the US retail ecosystem – based on real-time, comprehensive data feeds – proves that the majority of ecommerce sites are very slow at refreshing online prices. Sanjeev Sularia.
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Discussion about the future of retail has never been more lively and opinions around what’s to come are diverse. Is retail dying? I met with and listened to panels of retailers, brands, technology vendors, consultants – you name it. Retailers are at a crossroads.
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As we start the sprint to this year's holiday shopping season, I had hoped to start to see the disappearance of the store-centric mentality that has hurt so much of retail for years. This is best illustrated by complaints — from the likes of Target, Walmart and Home Depot — that they are being victimized by showrooming with Amazon. It was a bogus argument from the start.
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