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Two smartphones with images of the The Flash AR app...

Perfect Corp. and Warner Bros. partner for interactive AR movie try-on experience

YouCam Apps launches an exclusive collection of AR movie effects for Warner Bros. The Flash

Exterior view of the NIU electric scooter store

#brick and mortar retail #Tech in Retail

NIU opens world’s first unmanned store for passenger vehicles in Sweden

Long opening hours and low costs make the concept particularly customer-friendly and attractive for expensive city locations

Man with gray hair and dark jacket in front of a customer terminal at EuroShop...

#brick and mortar retail #epos systems

Digital label - Unpacked in a new way

TareTag makes it possible to display product information even if you bring your own containers.

#Tech in Retail #customer experience

Hibike in Germany benefits from digital price tags

German bicycle retailer uses technology by Delfi

Different outfits on clothes rails in a fashion store...

#online trading #e-commerce

Open app, call fitting room, try on

Amazon sets on the fashion niche with Amazon Style with all-modern technology

Electronic price tags stand on a cat tree

#digitization #Tech in Retail

Raiffeisen relies on automatic price control

Optimized processes thanks to electronic shelf labels

Top view of the drawn version of a supermarket

#online trading #e-commerce

Instacart announces ‘Connected Stores’ technology

New technology to help grocers seamlessly unify the online and in-store shopping experience

#brick and mortar retail #retail

Nike Style is part retail, part creative studio

New Nike store in Seoul features gender-agnostic zones for style-led collections

A modern design fashion pop-up store with mannequins standing on white tiled...

#omnichannel #shop design

Garage’s connected pop-up store in Toronto

Digitally-enabled store for today’s hyperconnected consumers

14.11.2021 #e-commerce #payment systems

INTEGRATING CASH with digital channels

COVID-19 raised safety concerns over cash handling, but those fears dissipated as the pandemic dragged on

By October 2020, cash had rebounded and reasserted itself as “the top way to make a purchase throughout 2020,” according to a report by Javelin Strategy & Research for ATM operator Cardtronics. ...

02.08.2021 #digitization #sustainability

Digital Care Labels: Show eco-consumers you mean business

Why fashion should allow consumers to take part in their garment’s circularity story

Clothing brands are actively seeking ways to lighten their environmental impact. It’s shocking that, on average, 23 kilograms of greenhouse gases are produced per kilogram of fabric, and in North-West Europe alone, around 4.7 ...

15.06.2021 #brick and mortar retail #sustainability

QR-based aRC quick scan tool for display recycling

arken wants to help retailers improve the recycling of displays at their end of life in-store

Retail display specialist arken P-O-P International announced the launch of aRC – the arken Recycling QR Code to create an easy and accessible way for help retailers improve recycling of permanent and semi-permanent displays at their end of ...

06.05.2021 #coronavirus #smartphone

Cash versus cashless: payment attitudes of European consumers

Contactless payment methods are gaining importance, but cash has not yet been written off

In 2019, the European Central Bank (ECB) conducted a study on the payment attitudes of consumers in the euro area. The study called SPACE assesses consumers’ use of cash and non-cash payment instruments at the level of each participating euro ...

08.03.2021 #online trading #e-commerce

Three ways to make better use of mobile marketing

Social media, mobile optimization, QR codes – practical rips for retailers

The pandemic has rapidly changed the way consumers interact with brands, with digital platforms becoming the sole way for browsing and purchasing goods and services in almost all sectors. This has resulted in a tremendous rise in the use of mobile, ...

17.04.2020 #online trading #digitization

"Love greetings" from the online shop

With the web-based application ViDGREETS, online shoppers can record personal messages and send them together with their purchase.

ViDGREETS – the name says it all. With this feature, customers in the online shop can quickly pack and send video greetings with their order. Retailers can also use it to send messages to their customers. In an interview, Marco van Eersel ...

30.08.2019 #brick and mortar retail #mobile payment

Strategic partnership in Brazil for new checkout-free stores

Zippin and Lojas Americanas: national roll-out underway

Zippin announced it has entered a strategic partnership with Brazil's largest retailer, Lojas Americanas S.A., to deploy its checkout-free technology in stores across the country. Though its innovation vertical, "IF – ...

26.08.2019 #mobile payment #app

App creates personalised shopping experience

The Swiss trading company Valora is opening its first cashless convenience store

The goods are chosen, scanned and paid for using the avec smartphone app. Mobile computer vision specialists Scandit’s scan engine is a key component of the customer-facing app. The future of shopping - whether online or offline - is ...

01.07.2019 #barcode scanner #QR code

45th anniversary of the barcode in retail

GS1 US celebrates the barcode’s relevance as the backbone of commerce

GS1 US®, the information standards organization best known as the administrator of UPC barcodes, this week celebrates 45 years since the debut and first scan of the iconic barcode. On June 26, 1974, a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum carrying a ...

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21.01.2019 #app #customer retention

Retailer app identifies counterfeit products and strengthens customer relationships

Secure barcodes on paper labels offer retailers and customers many benefits

Counterfeit goods prompt harmful financial losses due to a loss of sales and profits, decreased tax revenues and by threatening jobs – and this doesn’t just impact retailers and manufacturers. According to EUIPO (The European Union ...

06.08.2018 #digitization #cashpoints

No-checkout store of the future: Successful retail projects

Fine-tuning of the major rollouts has also started in Germany

Robots as sales consultants, REWE’s self-checkout at the neighborhood store or digital price tags. Slowly but surely, customers get used to and increasingly accept these innovative supermarket concepts. But are customers ready to take the next ...

11.08.2017 #mobile payment #payment systems

Visa supports the new global QR Code Payment Specifications

Simplifies onboarding for small and medium-sized merchants who want to deploy QR code digital payments

Visa announced its support of the new global QR Code Payment Specifications from EMVCo, the global technical body that manages the EMV Specifications. The specifications cover consumer-presented and merchant-presented QR code use cases for digital ...

15.01.2015 #smartphone #QR code

Barcode scanning in mobile shopping apps skyrockets on Black Friday

Scandit-powered mobile shopping apps saw as much as 40x increase in barcode scans on Black Friday 2014

Scandit, developer of the leading software-based barcode scanning solutions for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, today announced that consumers scanned more than 4.5 million barcodes with Scandit-powered mobile shopping apps ...