How IoT is Revolutionizing the Retail Industry - Total Retail
Jan 3, 2024 · IoT retail solutions enable transactions between mobile devices and connected point-of-sale (POS) systems. Whether shoppers use Apple Pay, Google Pay or in-app purchases like facial recognition payments, IoT-powered terminals use wireless electronic processing to streamline transactions through cashless and automated payments.
What You Need to Know About Consumer Shopping Habits
Aug 30, 2019 · This wouldn’t have been possible in a pre-e-commerce world. Of the people we polled, the majority (42 percent) said they prefer shopping in-store rather than online (24 percent) during the summer months. This aligns with trends in total in-store and online sales. In 2018, e-commerce sales grew by 15 percent and reached $517 billion, but that ...
Changes in Big-Box Retail Tell a Fascinating Story - Total Retail
Mar 28, 2024 · By Spencer Jordan. At a time when the commercial real estate landscape is evolving with unprecedented speed, changes in big-box retail are an important storyline. Appreciating how and why big-box concepts have thrived in a post-pandemic environment, and understanding the logic behind decision making with regard to everything from store layouts ...
Solving the Problem of Long Lines and Wait Times - Total Retail
Jul 18, 2022 · Innovative companies are turning to virtual queues to solve the problem of long lines and human impatience. Virtual queues replace physical lines, allowing consumers to wait from anywhere and receive status updates and communications via their personal devices. With artificial intelligence-powered tech, virtual queue management platforms ...
Survey Offers Insights Into Retailers' Tech Buying Processes
Oct 9, 2024 · Here's a series of charts providing a glimpse into the tech buying processes for the 214 survey respondents — who represented a mix of retail organizations (omnichannel, brick-and-mortar-only, online-only), as well as CPG and wholesale brands, with those companies ranging in annual revenue from $1 billion or greater to less than $1 million.
Meet the Staff - Total Retail
The Total Retail staff can be contacted at One Penn Center, 1617 JFK Boulevard, Suite 1750, Philadelphia, PA 19103 or at 215-238-5300. Melissa Campanelli is the brand and content director of the Retail and Travel Group at NAPCO Media, which includes Total Retail, Women in Retail Leadership Circle, and Women Leading Travel & Hospitality.
Total Retail Releases its 2022 Top 100 Omnichannel Retailers Report
Nov 2, 2022 · The sixth annual Top 100 Omnichannel Retailers report was released late last month by Total Retail. The report features a ranking of 100 leading retailers and brands based on the omnichannel capabilities across their organizations (e.g., supply chain, pricing, loyalty, payments), and the execution of those programs.
The Top 200 Catalog – Selected Profiles - Total Retail
Mar 1, 2004 · Catalog Success and Marketing INFORMATION Network® present the Top 200 Catalogs: The Greatest Housefile-Growth Rates Among Catalogers The charts reflect our second-annual ranking of the top 200 North America-based catalogs as measured by recent housefile-growth rates. You’ll notice that catalogers selling apparel/shoes, home furnishings and food fared particularly well. But other consumer ...
Countering Retail Theft Without Sacrificing Customer Experience
Feb 19, 2024 · A concerning trend has emerged in the evolving retail landscape over the past few years: the spike in retail theft. As examples, Los Angeles and Dallas experienced staggering increases of 109 percent and 73 percent, respectively, in shoplifting incidents from H1 2022 to H2 2023. As the problem intensifies, communities are left grappling with the repercussions, witnessing stores either fortify ...
2024 Retail Technology Report Findings: AI and Investment Trends
In this bonus episode of Total Retail Talks, Total Retail's Kristina Stidham and Joe Keenan discuss the brand's recently released 2024 Retail Technology Report.Listen in to learn about this annual report, including how data is collected, key findings to emerge from this year’s survey of technology decision-makers from across the industry, and implications for retailers’ businesses.