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Retail Innovation Has Changed — Can SMBs Keep Up?

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The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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How A Retail Incubator Could Produce The Next Big Innovation

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The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. He added that “our customers buy our product because we offer advantages over the technologies mentioned here. Customer Journey.

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The Retail Innovation Race Pits Products Vs. Services

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Innovation takes many flavors and paths, and that’s especially true when it comes to merchants who sell retail products and companies that sell retail services. Innovation Role. But that doesn’t mean innovation is impossible for those service providers, of course. According to the PYMNTS/AEVI research, 44.8

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Cameras Help Fuel Retail Innovation

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When it comes to retail innovation — changes that promise to influence commerce not only this year, but in the 2020s — cameras could have a significant role. This data certainly isn’t nothing, but it pales in comparison to the data troves that digital retailers have. Take security cameras for starters. “We Data Blocks.

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How Furniture Fuels AR And Other Retail Innovations

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Everyone needs furniture and home furnishings, and that need is helping to drive innovation in that sector of the retail economy. Among the latest examples is a PYMNTS interview with Beck Besecker, CEO and co-founder of Marxent , a company that sells 3D commerce technology. Touch and Senses. That’s not all, though.

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Retailers Start New Traditions With Innovation Around The Holidays

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Today, of course, is the day after Thanksgiving. In a season where tradition is key, retailers are setting new ones with the help of emerging products and services on this Black Friday. Rethinking Conventional Retail Wisdom . It was hard to pick up any article about retail and not end up reading an obituary for a mall in 2014.

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How Drive-Thrus Are Speeding Up Retail Innovation

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If so, you’ve been at the site of one of the hottest areas of retail innovation. The general idea, of course, it to further personalize the consumer experience and also save customers the trouble of pulling out credit cards or phones to make purchases. Been on a fast food drive-thru lately? are now looking to follow suit.”.