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Three Lessons Grocers can Learn from Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Offering locally sourced specialty foods and artisanal products helps entice new customers and size up against grocers that compete exclusively on price. The grocery industry has been lucky not to have the pendulum swing from the COVID closures of specialty retail.

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Viva La Retail: The Retail Renaissance Lives And Dies By The Connected Consumer

RTP blog

Up to 90% of consumers use their phone while shopping in stores and retailers are increasingly enhancing digital transformation strategies to take advantage of the new mobile-powered shopping era across every vertical, from department stores and supermarkets to hardware, sports and specialty retailing.

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Retailers, Reach For The Minimum By 2020

RTP blog

While a whopping 84% of e-Commerce and pure-play retailers consider themselves to be thriving , only 40% of specialty retailers, 35% of big boxes, 25% of discount stores, and 17% of department stores claim to be. The retail bar has been re-set, and there are new table stakes. Expand POS to include mobile payments.

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Hudson Uses COVID Shutdown to Shave 5 Months off Transaction Platform Deployment

Retail TouchPoints

At the beginning of 2020, Hudson kicked off its deployment of the Flooid platform to provide a new backbone for all transactions across its 1,010 travel convenience stores and specialty retail, which includes proprietary book and tech stores, duty-free shops and food and beverage concessions.

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The Best POS (Point of Sale) Systems for 2019: The Ultimate Guide

Ecommerce Platforms

Payments – Omnichannel payments, PCI compliance, easy refunds, accept all payment methods, mobile payments. Mobility and Cloud – Mobile inventory, on the spot transactions, quick employee training, personalized branding. Instead, ShopKeep is best suited for small to medium-sized retailers.