Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As an omnichannel retailer, “everything we do has to be even more omni,” explained Scott Devlin, CIO of The Vitamin Shoppe in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “If With our legacy POS solution, everything omnichannel that we did was going to be sub-optimized. We wanted to get the best experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

Wayfair has launched the Digital Design Studio, a patent-pending technology that aims to bring the best of online and in-store shopping together. The technology will debut at the Dedham, Mass. ” The technology could help Wayfair on its path to profitability, though the retailer still has some work to do.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

However, it was the brand’s omnichannel approach driven by its sales, marketing, and human insights teams that truly made the partnership a slam dunk. The company developed advanced technology in-house that visually places digital mock-ups of displays in stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

The youth-oriented retailer chose the Nedap solution for its ability to help improve inventory accuracy and enhance omnichannel fulfillment capabilities, including increased usage of buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) functionality. The chainwide rollout is expected to be completed in Q1 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

“We remain incredibly excited about our industry and our future — there are more technology products than ever in peoples’ homes, technology is increasingly a necessity in our lives and technology innovation will continue,” said Barry in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

But the retail technology (and wine) enthusiast in me shudders at the idea of cases of wine being laid to waste, especially when data-driven technologies could easily be deployed to help Bordeaux bounce back from its Merlot-est ever sales record. But France’s production pipeline marched on, seemingly without heeding the market changes.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

As a result, more brands need to look for ways to incorporate 3D and AR tech into their omnichannel strategy. The furniture and home goods space is another sector of the market that’s seeing increased applications of this technology. Where Does AR/3D Currently Stand? What Are the Benefits to Brands that Implement 3D and AR Tech?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

My daughter lives in technology. Hawkins’ job is to actually deliver on all those buzzy retail aspirations — omnichannel, seamless, frictionless — and fast, because if there’s one thing the mobile-first Gen Z shopper is not known for, it’s patience. So for us it’s really about getting the right products to her at the right time.”

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 30, 2020

Marketers today must understand and use myriad technologies to support omnichannel ad strategies and deliver moments-based marketing. But the landscape of 7,000+ options is overwhelming and rapidly evolving, especially as new privacy regulations and tech giants like Apple and Google limit access to consumer data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2022

Ron Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Enjoy Technology. Six years later, Johnson might answer that question differently — his “commerce-at-home” startup Enjoy Technology filed for bankruptcy on June 29, 2022, after a series of setbacks including staffing shortages and dwindling liquidity. His response: “Going to JCPenney.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

UK retailer Co-op is working with Walmart Commerce Technologies to bolster its “quick commerce” operations. The Walmart Commerce Technologies partnership is part of Co-op’s broader goal of expanding its quick commerce operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This concept of starting with a deep understanding of the customer (at times more deeply even than they understand themselves) and building from that point is also the basic premise of retail’s latest technological and philosophical movement — unified commerce. Looking to dig deeper into unified commerce strategies and implementation?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The numbers from our latest guide to omnichannel commerce speak for themselves, showing that marketing across three or more channels earns brands 250% higher engagement. From cybersecurity to ecommerce, digital to mobile, she has touched every aspect of today’s technology landscape.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A great digital experience starts with the basics: a strategy for omnichannel engagement; great design; personalized, yet trustworthy, experiences; and, of course, the technology and operations to support it. But to differentiate your company’s digital presence, you will also need to be creative in your approaches and solutions.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Stitch Fix has hired a new Chief Product and Technology Officer to lead the struggling online personal styling service’s technology, product, data science, security and IT teams. Tony Bacos will begin today and report directly to CEO Matt Baer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Relying on these technologies can help inform the consumer about the sensory properties of a product like its texture, smell, and even taste. This is no longer science fiction. virtual reality).

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon has incorporated RFID capabilities into its Just Walk Out cashierless technology to handle the sale of apparel and fan gear at two Seattle sports venues. Earlier this year, Amazon piloted the RFID-enabled Just Walk Out technology for a few games at Climate Pledge Arena, home of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In partnership with FrontRunner Technologies, TalkShopLive is bringing a “live commerce window shopping experience” to NYC. Content is at the core of product discovery and purchase, and through our unique technology we can support a connected approach to digital experience that maximizes content and amplifies omnichannel sales.”

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 1, 2021

Organizations that fail to meet buyers’ expectations for personalized omnichannel communications risk losing market share to competitors that do.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Instead of battening down the hatches and stepping back from investments in technology and transformation, [executives] are looking toward that as a conduit to help them progress through the year and the impending recession ,” said David Miller, Chief Marketing Officer at Mercaux in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Baozun recently established Baozun Brand Management (BBM), through which it will use its technology portfolio to cultivate brands. This acquisition accelerates our evolution into a technology-driven, omnichannel commerce player,” said Vincent Qiu, Chairman and CEO of Baozun in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Brands need to invest in stronger, more luxurious digital experiences to meet omnichannel shoppers with an experience that meets their desires. study noted a lavish brick-and-mortar experience remains the primary goal of luxury brands, it also stressed the importance of targeting omnichannel shoppers. While the Bain & Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Retailers will now be able to plug into Walmart Commerce Technologies’ Store Assist local fulfillment services and the Walmart GoLocal delivery solution through the Salesforce AppExchange. The same technology that powers Store Assist has enabled Walmart to fulfill over 830 million orders across over 4,700 Walmart stores.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Walmart has entered an agreement to acquire Alert Innovation , a robotics automation company that develops material-handling technology for automating order fulfillment in retail supply chains. Walmart has been working with Alert to customize technology for its market fulfillment centers (MFCs) since 2016. in a blog post.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, consumers return to brick-and-mortar stores and seek omnichannel experiences. Retailers increasingly strike balances between direct-to-consumer ecommerce and omnichannel strategies to keep products in stores and in front of consumers. But challenges remain for omnichannel retailers ahead of peak season.

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 26, 2020

^^ CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN ^^ The channel technology stack is a group of technologies that firms leverage to plan with, find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incentivize, co-sell with, co-market with, manage, measure, and report on partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

As 2024 unfolds, the B2B ecommerce sector is undergoing significant transformation driven by technological advancements and shifting buyer behaviors. Navigating digital transformation in 2024’s B2B ecommerce landscape hinges on a deeper comprehension of AI, omnichannel strategies and social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2024

Walmart’s audience and measurement solutions will now be available for brands’ use across Disney’s addressable streaming inventory, offering advertisers closed-loop attribution on their campaigns by applying Walmart’s omnichannel purchase data via clean room technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

The four key strengths that retailers need to build or to nurture are: data depth; data quality; a simple process for media buyers; and a technology stack that enables data management, audience building, tracking, measurement and billing. Kroger’s data arm is known for its detailed customer insights and omnichannel sales reporting.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the state of retail technology advances, companies are learning how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to provide more bespoke shopping experiences online. In any omnichannel approach to sales, it is essential to look at how to replicate the best parts of an in-store experience online.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

RFID technology is far from new; in fact, it’s already been through not one but multiple hype cycles, including the jumpstart provided by Walmart in 2003 when it mandated RFID tagging by its top 100 U.S. But these systems’ reliance on computer vision technology made it a poor fit for apparel sales. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It’s almost always the first to embrace new waves of innovation, test and deploy new technologies, and integrate them into their businesses to create new, dynamic experiences to benefit customers, employees and ultimately — ROI. Likewise, very few in these centers are technology experts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

JD Sports will implement the AI Search solution from Algolia as it seeks to modernize its online presence and stores based on an omnichannel, composable approach. Adoption of the solution complements the retailer’s rebranding as simply JD.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Payments technology is central to the shopping experience. Omnichannel payment solutions allow customers to move effortlessly between mobile apps, websites and physical stores without duplicating data entry of accounts or personal information. Jean-Marc Thienpont is the Head of Omnichannel and Biometric Solutions at J.P.

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