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Resilience is Key as Payments Acceptance becomes Mission-Critical

Retail TouchPoints

Starting at the POS Acceptance Device High availability starts by selecting POS models that have been manufactured to high-quality standards, incorporating reliable components and capable of communicating via both store telecommunication links and fast cellular data networks.

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Retail, POS Finance and the Quest for ESG

Retail TouchPoints

In addition to the products and services they offer, retailers are reconsidering the environmental and social impacts of their supply chains, employee activity and even which partners they choose to work with in an effort to fulfill a moral obligation to their consumers — especially the younger generation.

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Paper Store POS Upgrade Untethers Associates, Boosts Productivity

Retail TouchPoints

The Paper Store promises top-notch customer service in its 100+ brick-and-mortar stores, with associates helping shoppers choose from its widely varied assortment of apparel, accessories, jewelry, water bottles and even packaged food from Stonewall Kitchen (along with paper, pens and school supplies, of course).

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A Blueprint for Retail Cyber Resilience: Evolving Tactics for Today’s Digital World

Retail TouchPoints

Findings from Trustwaves Retail Sector Risk Radar Report highlight the sophistication of todays malware and phishing tactics, as well as the risks posed by supply chain vulnerabilities. These groups often infiltrate endpoint devices, including point-of-sale (POS) systems, employee laptops and mobile devices used for customer service.

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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

In 2024, it won’t be your dad’s supply chain. These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: Retailers need additional tools to fully integrate these stores’ back-of-house (BOH) operations into the rest of their supply chain.

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Lightspeed Integrates Retail and Supplier Supply Chain Data for Greater Flexibility

Retail TouchPoints

The fully integrated stock ordering solution aims to improve supply chain management for SMBs by giving them greater strategic inventory visibility. Omnichannel commerce provider Lightspeed has launched the Lightspeed Supplier Network for North American retailers.

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Preparing Retail Supply Chains for a Post-COVID World

Retail TouchPoints

Many retailers’ supply chains have been hit by the combination of the global pandemic, skyrocketing global logistics costs and the recent dramas in the Suez Canal. What steps do retailers need to take to secure product and supply chains as we move toward a post-COVID world? Demand, Not Supply Chains. Know Where Your Product is.

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