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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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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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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. That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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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 Pharmacies Are Driving Retail Innovation

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The nearly universal need for medication and other remedies is driving retail innovation via the pharmacy sector — and that includes the area of customer experience. One of the keys of the commerce game these days is providing a deeper customer experience, and that holds true when it comes to healthcare retail.

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Charting New Retail Courses With Fitness And Beauty

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And, in beauty retail, online hair and body care brands such as Ouai are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores like Ulta Beauty. iPhone app-enabled marketplaces such as Trainiac are letting consumers work one-on-one with a personal trainer.

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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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