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Holiday Shopping Trends and Payments Innovations: Experience as Competitive Advantage

Retail TouchPoints

Mobile-first consumers: With 91% of shoppers using a smartphone to make purchases, mobile commerce sales are expected to account for 62% of all retail sales by 2027. Mobile wallets provide the convenience shoppers have come to expect. Reducing friction provides convenience, increases conversion and lowers cart abandonment rates.

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Don’t Wait Until Black Friday to Protect Your Endpoints

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Endpoints, like laptops, tablets, mobile and BYOD devices, public cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications play a bigger role in retailers’ business and how they engage with their customers. Customers want personal, seamless, no-contact experiences, and each additional endpoint helps provide what today’s customers expect.

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How Privacy Issues in Mobile Apps Impact Retailers

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The popular Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons recently experienced negative publicity after multiple government agencies shed light on the company’s mobile app privacy policies and data collection methods. This discovery tarnished the reputation of a widely respected company with a long history of customer loyalty.

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Turn Your Store Associates into Superheroes with These Four POS Capabilities

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Customer and product information at their fingertips What are some of the functionalities and data that your POS system needs to serve up? Well, let’s start with customer data. Ability to sell even when offline Want to REALLY stress out your employees and frustrate your customers?

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Are You Ready for the Next Mobile Revolution?

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce had to reinvent itself, and mobile commerce is growing. A revolution in mobile technology among retailers is within sight. To be ready for what comes next, online retailers can take a page from those that adapted and grew with the initial shift to a mobile-friendly shopping world.

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The Home Depot Deploys 125,000 Multi-Function Associate Mobile Devices Chainwide

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The Home Depot will roll out more than 125,000 new hdPhones to associates in order to improve both the worker and customer experience at its stores. The mobile devices support communications throughout the entire store and in the parking lots, via both text messaging and walkie-talkie communications. stores by the end of 2022.

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How Retail Businesses Can Use Customer Data to Enhance Targeted Marketing

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Reward Your Most Loyal Customers. Loyalty programs offer another tool to track buying behavior and gather customer data while also driving additional revenue. This type of one-to-one proactive outreach about highly relevant topics is effective in driving return visits and sales of high-margin full-price items.