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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

By Derek Peterson, Boingo Wireless A retail renaissance is upon us, driven by a shift in economics, competition and exponential advancement in technology, per a new report from Deloitte. Mobile has emerged as the crown jewel fueling the resurgence, as digital devices are now central to the in-store shopping experience.

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

Ecommerce Platforms

Retailers worldwide are seemingly excited about the prospects of this revolutionary approach. As a result, modern point of sale counters basically have PCs and mobile devices running cloud-based programs, which are then connected to local retail hardware like card readers and bar code scanners. ?? Try Shopify POS «.

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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. and Canada.

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