Personalized Recommendations Drive Double-Digit Conversion Lift
Personalized Recommendations Drive Double-Digit Conversion Lift

One-to-one customer engagement enabled by machine learning yields a 13 percent reduction in bounce rate and a 33 percent average order value improvement at Marmot.

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  • Personalized Recommendations Drive Double-Digit Conversion Lift
    Personalized Recommendations Drive Double-Digit Conversion Lift

    One-to-one customer engagement enabled by machine learning yields a 13 percent reduction in bounce rate and a 33 percent average order value improvement at Marmot.

  • Instilling A Genius For Innovation
    Instilling A Genius For Innovation

    Leadership and ownership are the key components necessary to drive innovation in the retail organization.

  • Unprepared For Mobile Commerce
    Unprepared For Mobile Commerce

    I’ve spent a lot of time on the road over the past several weeks attending various industry events, and one of the major topics discussed at all of them has been the evolving role of personalization in omni-channel retailing.

  • ERP Relief For Stores On Wheels
    ERP Relief For Stores On Wheels

    To gain access to automated, real-time replenishment data, Mister Safety Shoes underwent a full-scale ERP overhaul that helped its mobile stores deliver the best possible customer experience.

  • Firearms Retailer Practices Gun Control
    Firearms Retailer Practices Gun Control

    Multifunctional POS and tight inventory controls power the gun lover’s destination store Thunderbird Firearms Academy.

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  • The Next Big Email Frontier: Encouraging Browsers To Buy
    The Next Big Email Frontier: Encouraging Browsers To Buy

    Cart abandonment emails were a revelation to many online retailers – opening up the possibility of recovering revenue with a series of automated messages. The concept has worked brilliantly. Our customers see as much as a 53x the investment in the technology needed to trigger the messages.

  • Training, Associate Effectiveness, And The Role Of Technology
    Training, Associate Effectiveness, And The Role Of Technology

    Well-trained associates are a vital piece to achieving success in retail, and yet associate training and retention pose significant challenges. Why? Because retailers are under intense pressure to keep costs low and sales high. And, unfortunately, staffing is still viewed as an expense that needs to be controlled and even cut in order to generate bottom line results.

  • Retailers’ Guide To Understanding Advanced Guest Wi-Fi
    Retailers’ Guide To Understanding Advanced Guest Wi-Fi

    The ubiquity of the smartphone, which in the US has more than tripled since 2010, has had an enormous impact on retailers and how they interact with their customers. One of the most significant retail trends created by the mobile era is customer demand for free Wi-Fi.

  • Successful Mobile Engagement: Strategy Matters
    Successful Mobile Engagement: Strategy Matters

    With surveys quantifying the game-changing benefits of unifying in-store and online experiences, it’s no wonder retailers are embracing mobile engagement innovations to increase conversions, boost cross-sales and enhance loyalty.

  • Global E-Commerce: Building a “Boundary-less” Business
    Global E-Commerce: Building a “Boundary-less” Business

    Plunging into global e-commerce can feel overwhelming. If you’ve ever wondered how you could easily manage the intricacies of duties and taxes, currency conversion, customs processes and the constantly changing regulations in addition to your current responsibilities, take notice.

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  • Mobile Coupon Return On Investment: Real Results From Real Retailers

    Mobile coupon popularity is growing rapidly in the retail sector. One analyst firm, solely focused on mobile, predicts that mobile coupons redeemed will almost double between 2014 and 2019 to more than 31 billion.

  • Robotic Goods-To-Person Picking Technology For Simplified Omni-Channel Order Fulfillment

    Perfect Pick’s goods-to-person model allows businesses to do more with less by dramatically increasing productivity and efficiency, but with much fewer workers.

  • Easter Holiday Promotional Analysis,

    Determining exactly when to have a sale, how long it should last, and how much to discount are recurring challenges for every retailer. One way to gain the upper hand is to have easy access to data-backed insights on your competitors’ promotional tactics at your fingertips. Such insights can reveal how your promotional calendar compares to others’, how discounting affects traffic, and how your promotions benchmark against competitors’.

  • The Retail Doc Weighs In: A Prescription For In-Store Success

    We’re excited for Bob Phibbs — the acclaimed speaker, writer, and CEO of the Retail Doctor, a New York-based retail consultancy — to be in Chicago later this week, where he will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s Retail Summit.

  • Infographic: A Portrait Of The Millennial Shopper

    Representing the largest and most diverse generation in U.S. history, Millennials possess $200B, collectively, in annual spending power. Yet, attracting and retaining the attention of the Millennial shopper remains a challenge for many retailers.

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    At March Networks, we believe in simple, easy-to-use video surveillance systems that help retailers decrease losses and increase profits.

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    NetSuite delivers a cloud-based, multi-channel retail management system that brings together NetSuite Retail Anywhere POS with eCommerce, CRM and marketing, merchandising and order management, financials, and warehouse management into a single, centrally-managed solution.

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    MultiSight by Schneider Electric

    MultiSight is a Video as a Service (VaaS) company that leverages the power of video to identify operational efficiencies for multi-location businesses.

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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK

  • Are Your Ready To Double Your Wages?
    Are Your Ready To Double Your Wages?

    It’s commonly held that the maintenance of a retail workforce consumes a double digit percentage of total revenue—in some cases north of 20 percent. In foodservice and hospitality segments that figure can climb to 30 percent.

Where Retail Apparel Meets Airport Security?

Bodylabs and 3DPrint.com are holding a jointly hosted webinar on June 23 called How to Use 3D Body Imaging to Innovate In the Apparel or Footwear Industry. Jon Cilley, Chief Evangelist and Director of Marketing for Body Labs, will discuss the company’s research and the potential for 3D technology to change the clothing and footwear industries.

Shoptalk 2016: Believe The Hype

In the weeks leading up to Shoptalk, “the nextgen commerce event” held in Vegas last month, it seemed as though not a day went by without receiving an electronic update announcing the newest big-name company to join the impressive and ever-growing speaker lineup. Like many people who attended Shoptalk’s inaugural event, I had high expectations for the show based on, well, hype. After all, Shoptalk’s creators are the minds behind the Money 20/20 juggernaut, so I was excited to see for myself the show that promised to deliver what nextgen commerce actually means for the retail industry and the customer experience.

The Sacrifice Of Building A Brand

I wasn’t familiar with Hammitt when I sat down with Tony Drockton at SuiteWorld, NetSuite’s annual customer conference, last week in San Jose. A minute hadn’t passed before I ascertained that Drockton lives up to the “Chief Cheerleader” title printed on his business card. The guy is a juggernaut, hell-bent on reinventing the way women shop for and enjoy their high-end handbags.

Saving Money, Saving Stores

Last week brought brick and mortar retail some solemn news. Aéropostale is closing 154 stores on the heels of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing, and Sports Authority is considering the liquidation of all 450 of its stores after its own Chapter 11 filing in March.

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  • Unprepared For Mobile Commerce
    Unprepared For Mobile Commerce

    I’ve spent a lot of time on the road over the past several weeks attending various industry events, and one of the major topics discussed at all of them has been the evolving role of personalization in omni-channel retailing.

  • Instilling A Genius For Innovation
    Instilling A Genius For Innovation

    Leadership and ownership are the key components necessary to drive innovation in the retail organization.

  • ERP Relief For Stores On Wheels
    ERP Relief For Stores On Wheels

    To gain access to automated, real-time replenishment data, Mister Safety Shoes underwent a full-scale ERP overhaul that helped its mobile stores deliver the best possible customer experience.

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