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The future for retail is bright but the road is rocky
Research from Juniper may well predict consumer retail spend will increase by 25% in the next three years but that does not mean that it will be easy. Read more…
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Retail to ‘Metail’ – how telcos prepare for next-gen customers
Will Gibson, from Maplewave, has some ambitious ideas that focus on what telcos need to be doing now to cater for next-gen ‘metail’ customers. Read more…
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Retail staff think they can provide better service with tablets
66% of surveyed retail staff believe that if they are equipped with tablets, they could provide better customer service and improve the shopping experience. Read more…
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Why the future of retail is not black and white
What we probably need is a better way of measuring whether retail is doing well or not so well and stop dividing it up between physical and online Read more…
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Retail is not dead, it is just changing shape – a lot!
Listening to the news over the past couple of weeks you would be forgiven for thinking that retail is dead. Read more…
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Microsoft challenges Amazon Go in automated grocery tech
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores, in a nascent challenge to Amazon’s automated grocery shop, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Redmond, Read more…
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Is the future of retail heading for a cold, dark place?
Few would have thought that retail would become interesting, at least not in our world. Even fewer would have thought that retail would become one of the most disruptive and disrupted arenas on earth. Corner Read more…