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IoT, big data and real-time location systems have the potential to merge for an unforgettable retail experience.
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The retail industry is in decline. But what if we brought the online experience to offline shopping?
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Disruption — of industries, delivery channels and long-entrenched ways of doing business — has become such a familiar buzzword on the digital landscape these days that using it barely raises eyebrows anymore, much less makes any jaws drop.
But last week’s $13.
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Imagine this scene: On the hunt for a new couch, you walk into a furniture retailer. But instead of being surrounded by chairs or loveseats, you see shoppers peering into virtual reality headsets at stations throughout the store.
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The only things that holiday shoppers want this year are personalization, convenience and mobile — in short, everything — but if you’re a retailer, don't let that intimidate you.
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Retail headlines in the last few years have convinced us that online is killing brick and mortar and that Amazon is taking over. Newsflash: this is a fallacy — and there’s proof.
According to data from A.T. Kearney (pdf), 90 percent of all retail sales are transacted in-store and 95
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We’ve been told that we are special ever since we're little, but how special are we?
I challenge you to find another person in the world that is exactly like you. That person probably doesn’t exist.
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Traditional brick and mortar retailers have felt the threat coming from e-commerce and digital experience for years now.
But digital investments in both in-store and online represent the most strategic and critical areas of growth for leading retailers.
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The first indoor mall in the United States opened its doors in Duluth, Minn. just about 100 years ago — July 20, 1916, to be precise.
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Amazon opened its first physical bookstore last fall — somewhat ironically in a former Barnes & Noble location — in an upscale shopping mall in Seattle.
For a while the store flew under the national radar, viewed by many as a side project of little consequence.
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Many retailers are unknowingly operating with a blind side in their planning and merchandising that threatens to derail them on their path to customer-centricity.
Merchandise planning is the systematic approach to forecasting future inventory requirements.
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Predictive analytics give retailers the chance to forecast sales in ways previously impossible. But many struggle with where to begin when faced with the seas of available data — customer preferences, historical performance, industry trends and other micro- and macro-economic factors.
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A lot of shoppers will have only one hand free when pushing their way through the huddled masses of bargain hunters on Black Friday this year.
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Last Christmas Eve, Amazon received an early gift in the shape of a patent for "anticipatory package shipping." The patent describes a method for shipping a package of one or more items to an end destination’s geographical area without specifying the delivery address at time of shipment -- the
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