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5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Focus on Customer Data

Retail TouchPoints

As 76% of businesses that are advanced in their integration of technology, business goals and analytics report a more favorable market position, retailers today can’t miss out on using customer data to improve virtually every aspect of their operations. . Adapt your offerings. Marketers today use 9.4

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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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Build-A-Bear Enhances Shopper Journey by Delivering Relevant Customer Data to Associates’ iPads

Retail TouchPoints

Build-A-Bear Workshop has deployed a new cloud-native, mobile-first POS and customer engagement solution in 450 stores across the U.S., Canada and the UK, with plans to roll out the technology in additional geographies over the next year.

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Don’t Wait Until Black Friday to Protect Your Endpoints

Retail TouchPoints

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

Retail TouchPoints

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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