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Innovations in Smart Checkout
Pam Danziger
July 25, 2023
Nobody likes waiting in line for a checkout lane to open. No one likes waiting in line, period. Self-checkout was supposed to solve for that, ...
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Can Generative AI Revolutionize Retail?
Robin Lewis
May 24, 2023
Headlines blast that generative AI can revolutionize the retail industry. Really? Well, if I can overcome my cynical view that this awesome technology breakthrough, if ...
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Proto Holograms Are Leapfrogging to the Future
Kate Newlin
May 15, 2023
I have seen the near future and it is speeding toward us at warp speed. Case in point: When I worked at Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve, ...
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Retail Tech Opens a New Chapter
Sarah Holbrook
April 10, 2023
As the vernal equinox flips the calendar to Spring, festivals and innovation summits have emerged from hibernation. At the South by Southwest festival in Austin ...
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TikTok Retail Marketing at Risk
Arick Wierson
April 4, 2023
Digital marketers in the retail industry have been thrown into a state of flux in recent days with news emerging that regulators in Congress and ...
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What Mark Twain Has to Say About the Metaverse
Kate Newlin
March 28, 2023
Remember Mark Twain’s observation about the weather? Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. Brand growth in the metaverse is quite like ...
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Shoptalk 2023 Is Also the Industry’s Tech Festival
Robin Lewis
March 20, 2023
Shoptalk is well known in the retail industry as an exciting, forward-thinking gathering infused with tech innovations for retailers and brands. How do they stay ...
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After the Crash, NFTs Are Repurposed for Retail
Sarah Holbrook
March 14, 2023
NFTs have sprinted through the hype cycle, from frenzied enthusiasm to disillusionment in less than 24 months. Signals are hinting that they may have reached ...
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