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Curbside Pickup and How It Impacts Your Retail Strategy

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers were already seeing enthusiasm from customers for more convenient ways to interact during the purchasing process. While some retailers have offered limited order pickup options for some time, this was often limited to certain verticals or a small sub-set of products. The Challenges.

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How Retailers Are Cashing In On A US Coin Shortage

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As the United States experiences a coin shortage due to the pandemic, some brick-and-mortar retailers are forcing consumers to tell cashiers to “keep the change.”. Not only will those customers give the grocers some personal information in doing so, but they’ll presumably revisit the retailer in the future to spend their unused change.

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Cooler Screens Brings New Look To Retail Innovation

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“We are essentially taking glass doors that were probably underutilized and not asking the retailer for any additional physical space.”. From a business standpoint, we believe that things like sales lift are obviously a really important metric,” Dravenstott said, “and you don't hear that much in brick and mortar retail.

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Retailers Are Getting Smarter About Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are starting to play a bigger role in retail, foreshadowing what’s to come in the new decade of the 2020s. According to PYMNTS research , AI and ML are blurring the divide between online and in-store shopping, and bringing an all-new human element into retail. Role of Data.

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The Empowered Consumer

Across the retail sector, organizations are facing a new challenge in the form of the empowered consumer. Armed with a world of information at their fingertips, consumers are looking for information that is tailored to them about what to buy, where to buy it, and where the best deals are.

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Blockchain Finds New Home In Retail Food Supply

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Food retailers need to embrace a new term: digital traceability. If a shipment of avocados says it is fresh until May 1, the retailer can check its proof of provenance, and doesn’t have to take the word of the supplier as that company promises fresh goods to its consumers. And it could be one of the killer apps for blockchain. “We

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Why Amazon And Other Retailers Are Turning To Biometrics

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Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development, including via some of the biggest names in commerce. Take Amazon, which continues to expand its brick-and-mortar retail footprint, and the technology underlying those stores. Larger Trends.

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