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Data Enabler VoltDB Takes Stock Of Retailers’ Evolving Inventory Needs

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It has advantages for retailers, too. Data Enabler VoltDB helps retailers carry that load, with broad, deep, and most importantly, fast data reporting that enables them to adapt to fluctuating inventory needs on the fly. 100 percent accuracy – Data managed by VoltDB is always accurate, all the time, for all decisions.

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Robot Retail Is Now A Real Thing

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Few harbingers of the future have managed to unsettle so many in retail as the advent of automation. Let’s say you have a firm that does both — it produces a good, but it also has people in management, sales, and marketing,” Gregory told Bloomberg.

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German FinTech N26 Eyes IPO With Hiring Of New CFO

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The former CFO of Zalando SE, one of Europe’s most successful eCommerce retailers, Kemper was instrumental in leading the company’s IPO in 2014 on the Frankfurt stock exchange. In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. Its most recent valuation was $3.5

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Data Enablers: Motionloft, For Retail Traffic And More

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But how does a retailer know how many people are coming in and out of its space? San Francisco-founded Motionloft launched in 2010 with the intent to solve the problem of inaccurate and unavailable pedestrian and vehicular traffic numbers. People are always moving. They’re going in and coming out of buildings every day.

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How Millennials Are Propelling Halloween To New Retail Heights

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Retailers are set to clean up this Halloween, as 2017 is looking to be a record-setter for consumer spending during the holiday. Halloween is no longer just for the kids and those with kids,” wrote Allison Zeller, director of research for the National Retail Federation (NRF). brand manager, in an interview with VinePair.

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Whole Foods Might Take Over Many Sears, Kmart Stores

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Sears — which hasn’t turned a profit since 2010 — was once the biggest department store chain in the country. After analyzing all of Sears’ remaining real estate, BMO has estimated that the retailer has about 480 locations open, with 80 expected to close. Yet, it has failed to keep pace with competitors in recent years.

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Canada’s Lightspeed POS Inc Raises $179M In IPO

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Overall, the firm has a small and medium-sized business focus and its platform can be utilized for different functions including inventory management and point of sale (POS). s 2010 U.S. The company’s Lightspeed platform, as it stood, already served small to medium-sized retailers. took $131 million in through its IPO.