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Two-pronged Approach to Tablet Strategy
The boom in tablets is giving retailers the opportunity to raise their game and engage in retailing tactics that deliver a superior customer experience.
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5 Questions with Scott Moreland of Motorola and Dan Wittner of RBM Technologies
The boom in tablets is giving retailers the opportunity to raise their game and engage in retailing tactics that deliver a superior customer experience. In this lunch and learn Web session you will hear about a two-tiered approach to deploying tablets.
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The Continued Benefits of In-Store Merchandising
SymphonyIRI recently published a new report entitled “Merchandising Trends: Driving Consumption through Shopper Marketing.” In it, they note the role merchandising plays in retail across various consumer packaged goods categories.
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Top 50 Retail Brands: Walmart Retains No. 1 Spot but Amazon Leads in Growth
By a wide margin, Walmart once again leads Interbrand’s Most Valuable U.S. Retail Brands list for 2012 – even though its total brand value declined by 2%.
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Union Bank Launches RBM Technologies’ Visual Merchandising Solution to Enhance Campaign Execution Across Retail Branch Network
Union Bank to Use RBM’s Visual Merchandising Manager
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3 Key Elements for Upgrading your Brick and Mortar Store
A recap of a Super Session at the National Retail Federation’s “Big Show” in New York City. In this session, Alison Paul speaks to a recent survey by Deloitte LLP on the next evolution of the retail store: Store 3.0
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President Clinton’s Challenge to Retailers
From his keynote address at NRF 2012. Finding new solutions to old problems by embracing our common humanity and planning for the future.
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National Survey: More than Half of Retailers Testing In-Store Tablets in 2012
RIS News looks at retailers’ incredible interest in tablets, exploring the status of current deployments, examining near-term investment intentions, and tracking future trending plans.
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Survey: Mobile technology leads to better customer experience
Three in four retail associates and managers said they provide a better in-store customer experience when equipped with the latest mobile technologies, according to Motorola Solutions’ annual Holiday Shopping Survey.
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3 Ways To Win In A Brutal Economy
The retail outlook for the 2011 holiday season may be more promising than 2010, but executives know there’s a much larger issue looming overhead than sales this quarter. Here are three hybrid approaches retailers can use.
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Netflix, Google, Amazon, Target and Publix rank highest in brand simplicity
Netflix, Google and Amazon top a list of the 10 “simplest” U.S. brands, according to Siegel+Gale’s second annual Global Brand Simplicity Index.
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5 Store Management Factors Vital to Retail Profitability
According to most job descriptions for retail general managers, their chief responsibilities center on hiring, training and supporting store employees, merchandise management at the store level rarely enters the discussion.
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What is Retail Localization?
A working definition of the term “Retail Localization” as it applies to shopper marketing, in-store media, visual merchandising and the great retail industry.
Sears Explains Its Success In Content Marketing
While FitStudio is a major content marketing initiative, it is one of several Sears multichannel programs. Depending on the program, we have various ROI related metrics. For some programs, we are measuring membership acquisition, engagement, page views, return visits, coupon redemption, or purchase.
Partner Collaboration Drives Merchandising Success
Innovative merchandising created through collaboration among retailers and suppliers requires careful planning and dedication, but it can be a powerful driver of incremental sales if executed properly, according to presenters at an FMI2012 session here.
Harris survey ranks Kohl’s, Nordstrom, Target and Walgreens highest in their categories
Kohl’s, Nordstrom and Target ranked first in their categories in a new survey by Harris Interactive The 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend (EQ) study surveyed Americans about brands across several retail segments, revealing which brands prompted them to open their hearts—and consequently—their pocketbooks.
Macy’s Takes the Lead in Tech-Enhanced Shopping
While many retailers are working hard to get technology out the door and on the floor, none have mastered a truly technologized shopping experience – except for Macy’s, that is. With an omni-channel strategy that takes the lead, Macy’s has created tech-enhanced store shopping.
New Balance Enhances Customer Experience with VeriFone App
New Balance has selected VeriFone GlobalBay’s Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution to engage customers by untethering the store associate from a fixed location POS register. This will provide mobile checkout at the point of interaction where it’s needed.
Scaling Down Retail Space
Manhattan retailers are facing the same intensified pressures from Internet retailers and a slow recovery that are causing big box stores to close and shrink throughout the country. Only here, landlords are better positioned than their suburban counterparts to deal with the weakening demand by returning the space from whence it came.
Gap Inc.’s Piperlime to make Retail Store Debut in NYC
The new 4,000 sq. ft. Piperlime store will offer a similar curated assortment as online, the company said. Styled as a boutique, the store will feature the best range of coveted, iconic brands like Milly, Frye and Citizens of Humanity as well as little known finds including Tinley Road, Ash and Maison Scotch.
Sears Combines Outlet Stores and Hardware Stores Units into one Company
Sears Holdings Corp. revealed in a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the previously announced spinoff of its Sears’s Outlet and Sears’s Hometown and Hardware stores will now combine the two chains into one separate company.
Bonobos Launches First Offline Store on Newbury St.
As one of the worst-dressed cities in the country, (thanks, GQ!), Bonobos is here to save Boston. The New York based company, which boasts the largest men’s Internet-launched clothing brand in the U.S., is opening its first offline, brick and mortar shop today on Newbury Street.
Survey Shows 66 Percent of Retailers Interested in Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) as a Core Customer Service Strategy
Motorola Solutions, Inc. MSI -0.30% today released the findings of a survey that demonstrates increasing interest from retail, hospitality and field service industries for mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solutions as a core strategy for improving customer service.
Multi-Channel vs. Omni-Channel, and Other Key Takeaways
At the recent RIS event in Orlando we learned that retailers are still figuring out the differences and challenges of operating multi-channel versus omni-channel. Retailers are in the process of defining the differences between the two and gaining understanding of where the lines are drawn for each strategy.
Target Begins Remodels of 90 Stores to Expand Fresh Food Offering
The June stores will be the second of three cycles of remodels for Target this year. Stores scheduled for the June remodel cycle span markets across the country, from Des Moines, Iowa, to El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
