Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

“Food manufacturers have long struggled to connect with end buyers and influence purchasing decisions at the point of sale,” said Mani Kulasooriya, Co-founder and CEO of Cut+Dry in a statement. “Without a platform to share their brand story and product benefits, brands have been limited in their reach.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

They give your customers peace of mind when it comes to saving money and earning rewards at the point of sale. With notifications, retailers can let customers know when they’ve reached the next level and offer special rewards such as double loyalty points days.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This latest addition to Shopify’s offerings relies on the company’s point-of-sale software, which is designed to allow retailers to sell online and offline. Ecommerce platform Shopify is now aiming to help retailers sell anywhere through its unified POS Go all-in-one retail hardware device for omnichannel sellers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This data, which includes sensitive customer information like credit card details, is stored across a number of environments and is accessible through millions of point-of-sales and IoT devices. From ecommerce, logistics and digital marketing, these sectors are heavily reliant on data for their day-to-day operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The space also features an integrated payment system, allowing brands to use it as a point of sale, with products stored in a basement floor stockroom. Along the back of the space’s ground floor are floor-to-ceiling high-definition micro-LED displays, and the store’s glass frontage allows passersby to see the head-turning screens.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Additionally, by leveraging the solution’s cloud technology, Sainsbury’s will gain access to AI-powered real-time data and analytics for sales analysis, estimates of future store performance, associate productivity and cash management.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

From online stores to point-of-sale systems, ensuring smooth customer experiences relies on robust testing of software systems. APIs can also be credited with helping uncover issues earlier in the development process. In the fast-paced retail industry, technology remains the backbone of operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The first is point-of-sale product activation by which only products that are legitimately purchased are activated. “We see a future where technologies like Project Unlock can help the entire retail ecosystem create a great environment for our customers.”. Visualization of how Project Unlock RFID tags will work.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Invest in tax automation: Implementing tax automation can simplify compliance for retailers navigating the challenges of sales tax RDFs, point-of-sale fees and everything else. Staying informed allows businesses to adjust their practices and stay one step ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

The premium apparel retailer operates in 128 countries at approximately 6,800 points of sale as well as online in 59 countries. Seeking to improve merchandise availability and supply chain visibility, Hugo Boss will deploy the Nedap iD Cloud platform chainwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Vitamin Shoppe will update its point-of-sale and promotions capabilities chainwide with solutions from Jumpmind. The retailer will deploy Jumpmind Commerce, a cloud-native, mobile-first POS solution, and Jumpmind Promote, for unified promotions across both physical and digital experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning retailers from offering any type of plastic bag to customers at the point of sale. The new law, scheduled to take effect Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Breaches have compromised customer records, disrupted online sales and caused network outages that impacted customer deliveries. The past year has been brutal for big retailers when it comes to cybercrime. It’s not as though these companies had no defenses.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Stripe will be the first payment platform to offer the service to business customers, including the Shopify Point of Sale app this spring. Tap to Pay on iPhone will be available to participating payment platforms and their app developer partners to leverage in software developer kits (SDKs) in an upcoming iOS software beta.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New tech integrationswill include iPads and other handheld point-of-sale devices for seamless checkout experiences, as well as the integration of QR codes throughout the store to offer customers access to additional product information.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2023

The specialty retailer for Gen Z has selected Manhattan Active Point of Sale to enhance its omnichannel sales strategy and deliver seamless shopping experiences across all channels. The retailer already uses Manhattan Active Omni Order Management, including store inventory and fulfillment capabilities. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

In the point of sale (POS) space, three AI applications show particular promise: Headcount and Heat Mapping in Brick-and-Mortar Retail Insights from shopper behavior data are valuable – and financially impactful – to retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

Customers that have a positive point-of-sale financing experience are more likely to repeat purchases from that retail brand if the BNPL option is white-labeled for the retailer. This is how merchants can reap the benefits of BNPL solutions in today’s ever-competitive market.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Like most retailers of a certain age, The Paper Store debuted in brick-and-mortar — in this case a modest family-run newsstand in Maynard, Mass. that opened in 1964.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2025

Employees at a Barnes & Noble store in Bloomington, Ill. have ratified a new three -year contract under the aegis of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), joining unionized workers at three New York City bookstores, including the companys flagship Union Square location.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modells , Subway (although somehow the Kohls has survived).

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Associates will need to install the mobile Point of Sale App on their iPhones to use it. Morgan Payments powers the Tap to Pay on iPhone service, which can accept credit and debit cards, Apple Pay and NFC-enabled digital wallets.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Consumers now prefer digital payment options, with cash usage declining in all major economies. Cards have become by far the most popular payment method, with contactless now accounting for most purchases made at retail stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

1WorldSync’s 2024 Consumer Product Content Benchmark report revealed that 64% of shoppers have scanned a QR code on a product while shopping in-store. With a quick click on a smartphone, these customers have accessed hidden content, exclusive deals and lightning-fast checkouts. The result?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This includes components like in-store mobile devices, chatbots or virtual assistants on their website, point of sale (POS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and more. Retailers need a base set of technologies that are all connected within the omnichannel ecosystem.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

They need to keep track of what’s new, what’s unique to their location and what just went on sale. If you stop to think about it, we must be a little crazy to expect so many things from store associates today. We want them to be brand ambassadors. Excellent brand ambassadors are like traffic magnets.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2024

On average, nearly 20% of annual retail sales happen in November and December, and the impact of a breach can be disruptive to the business and brand. We are approaching one of the most important and riskiest times of the year for retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For consumers, grocery shopping has become a multi-location event, with shoppers visiting an average of 5.2 stores to cross every item off their lists. This grocery hopping trend has become especially prevalent thanks to consumer-friendly technology like curbside pickup, home delivery and online ordering.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2021

These AR experiences at points of sale can then be broadcast simultaneously and globally on live-shopping and livestreaming platforms, such as YouTube Live, Twitch, Facebook Live and Instagram Live. Retail is changing fast,” said Thibault Mathieu, CEO and Producer of Wilkins Avenue AR in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The company supports nearly $8 billion in gross merchandise value, more than 20,000 online points of sale and $10 trillion in product listings annually. This is the 14th warehouse in Cart.com’s growing network of omnichannel fulfillment centers, which now encompasses 8 million square feet of space across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2024

But a legacy point-of-sale (POS) system that lacked any kind of mobile functionality tied too many associates to cash wrap workstations — a major source of inefficiency during ongoing labor shortages in retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

The retailer is in the midst of rolling out new next-generation store technology, including new point-of-sale (POS) hardware and software, as well as upgrading its stores’ WiFi and network bandwidth. However, there’s been even more going on behind the scenes and in a growing number of JCPenney stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Take Stock of the Inventory Amid the digital transformation of retail, technologies such as SquareSpace have become more commonplace at the point of sale, while self-service kiosks and cashierless checkouts are now ubiquitous.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2024

Partnerships like this one are not new for NBCU, which has been at the forefront of creating shoppable TV experiences, including: In November 2023 , NBCU teamed up with Walmart for a shopping integration tied to the Bravo reality series Below Deck Mediterranean ; In March the company unveiled a range of TV-enabled commerce opportunities for advertisers (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Aēsop operates approximately 400 points of sale across the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, with a recent advance into China, where the brand opened its first store in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Campus foodservice leader Sodexo will open nearly 100 Food Hive markets on college campuses by 2026, beginning with the approximately 30 locations opening during the 2024-2025 academic year.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Today, point-of-sale devices and iPads are commonly used edge devices that can compute data locally and then send important information back to the cloud. This includes traditional brick-and-mortar stores and ‘offsite’ locations such as curbside pickup, pop-up shops, music festivals or sports stadiums.

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