How IoT & Connected Smart Products Can Play A Role in Facilitating Omni-Channel Retail Experience

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Internet of Products, Internet of Things (IOT), Retail Technology

What was the last thing you bought online? Why didn’t you go to a store to buy it? Was it for the vast number of items you could scroll through before making a choice or the recommendations that the website or app pulled up for you, remembering your choices and interests from a previous visit, […]

IoT for Consumer Retail – List of Top Companies & Solutions

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Internet of Products, Internet of Things (IOT)

We’ve compiled a list some of the most prominent companies providing IoT solutions to consumer retailer brands.  Let’s take a look:  1. Qliktag Qliktag IoT Connected Smart Products Platform allows brands and manufactures to assign a QLIKTAG or internet identifier to everyday consumer products and allows them to participate in the Internet of Things.  Enabling […]

How Connected Technology Breathes Life into Brick and Mortar Retail

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Internet of Things (IOT), Retail Technology

Brick and mortar retail is not dead nor dying. There are some things we love about brick and mortar retail outlets which online retail cannot compensate for. Using our senses to make decisions and being able to touch, smell, see and experience products cannot be replicated online. However, the brick and mortar retail experience could […]

Smart Products and Smart Packaging Infographic

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Internet of Products

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Going Digital with Product User Content & Instruction Manuals

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Retail Technology

User instructions & product documents are an essential component of many categories of consumer products. You bring home a new product, maybe a TV, Printer, a bed or even a frozen food product. Think of the amount of content that accompanies these products including the in-box documents. Bundles of paper and tiny typeface instructions accompanying […]

Role of Product Data in Retail Automation

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Retail Technology

Automation has replaced the human effort of executing business processes. The latest report published by private sector think-tank McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) which assessed the effects of automation in various socioeconomic environments, suggests that 30% of the Earth will be automated by 2030. With AI and VR systems taking over nearly all industry sectors in recent times, […]

The Store of the Future is Here: AmazonGo

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News

No lines, No Checkouts, No Registers – Welcome to Amazon Go. Seattle, US: Amazon’s vision which incepted almost four years back has been steadily coming to life. The retail giant opened their cashier-free store in Seattle, on Monday. After a year-long testing phase, the store is now finally open to customers. Amazon has successfully weaved […]

PIM Software Solution- A Buyers Guide

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Internet of Products, Retail Technology

As the retail industry keeps evolving, retailers and organizations continue innovating technology-enabled processes for refining product operations. Whether a business is just starting out or has been established for a while and has multiple SKUs, supplier, vendors and customer under its belt, product information management plays a critical role in the end to end retail. […]

Walmart empowers customers to Scan & Go

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News

Walmart helps customers save time and money with its mobile app – Scan & Go Walmart is making it easier for customers to save time with its fast, simple and easy to use mobile app – ‘Scan & Go’. The retail giant is expanding a test of its popular mobile express Scan & Go app […]

It Takes a Product Content Obsessive Organization to Nail Digital Retail

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Retail Technology

The face of digital retail looks promising as many e-commerce giants are challenging the status-quo of traditional retail. Technology leaders are obsessed with developing tools and software aimed at driving sales. According to a webinar by Forrester Research, digital influences ½ of the retail market, especially in the United States. This does not imply that […]

The Retail Product Information Matrix- What IS Real Neo?

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Product Information Management, Retail Technology

Remembering the iconic Sci-fi thriller, the Matrix, which put forth the idea of ‘simulated reality’, let’s recall the famous conversation when Neo met Morpheus for the first time and Morpheus asks, “What Is Real? How Do You Define Real? “If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you taste and […]

Top 5 Product Information Management Trends to expect 2018

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Product Information Management

Do you remember the last time you purchased something, without googling it or looking the product up online? Well, we don’t either. The shift in retail technologies has enabled customers to gather as much information as possible. Product Information plays an important role in today’s omnichannel retail world.  The rising cost of poor product information […]