Make sure you give your best smile when you are shopping in 2020. That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making...
Brick-and-mortar retailers have one key advantage in the competition against eCommerce: Only they can immediately provide physical products. That advantage evaporates if consumers arrive at stores only to find the items they want are out of stock, however. Getting inventory levels right is challenging, particularly...
Cameras reportedly are taking a more important place in the world of grocery, perhaps to the detriment of cashiers. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which said that the technology, “pioneered” by Amazon for its Amazon Go grocery stores, will allow such merchants to...
Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. Customers online leave behind all kinds of data in their wake — who they are, how often...
March 26, 2019
Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. Customers online leave behind all kinds of data in their wake — who they are, how often they visit or purchase items, what they’ve looked at and […]
December 23, 2019
Online shopping has fundamentally changed the rules of how to gauge a company’s performance around the holidays. Unlike the old days, the number of people visiting a store on a major shopping day is no longer an indicator of success, Wall Street analysts say, according to Reuters. Instead, the array of tactics to judge success […]
July 07, 2019
Cameras reportedly are taking a more important place in the world of grocery, perhaps to the detriment of cashiers. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which said that the...
December 18, 2018
Police in the United Kingdom are planning to use facial recognition over the holidays in highly-populated areas to find criminals, according to reports. Police plan to use the technology to...
