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OnDemand: Retail Analytics Webinar

by Greg Buzek
on 1/27/23

When looking at analytics, there are 4 levels – what happened (Descriptive), why it happened (Diagnostic), what could happen (Predictive), and what should happen (Prescriptive). The data is clear from this independent research completed in late 2022. The retailers that are using predictive and prescriptive analytics are significantly outperforming retailers […]
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Repeat: 4 HUGE Mistakes Companies Make at NRF’s Big Show

by Greg Buzek
on 11/3/22

This is worth repeating as we have a lot of new people in the retail industry. I think we originally shared this in 2010, then again in 2015. Every year vendors spend thousands, even millions of dollars setting up booths, demos, and having parties around the National Retail Federation Big […]
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Marriott International Announces Instant Booking Solution for Meetings and Events With Groups360 Marriott International Announces Instant Booking Solution [...]

Marriott International and Groups360 announced the launch of Instant Booking for Marriott’s portfolio of hotels in the United States and Canada. Marriott International is the first brand to have a direct integration with Groups360 to offer the “Instant Book” functionality for both guest rooms [...] Read Article ›

Nestlé Purina Taps VR to Optimize In-Store Shelf Merchandising Nestlé Purina Taps VR to Optimize In-Store Shelf [...]

Nestlé Purina Petcare has successfully completed their implementation of a new 3D tech solution aimed at helping partners optimize their store shelving and reach more customers. The pet care company will now use the integrated solution – which employs headsets to allow users to interact in a [...] Read Article ›

Amazon Web Services to invest $35 billion in new data centers Amazon Web Services to invest $35 billion in new data [...]

Amazon is making another hefty investment in its cloud business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest $35 billion by 2040 to establish multiple data center campuses across Virginia. The e-tail giant is evaluating different localities across Virginia and will make site decisions at a later [...] Read Article ›

Stripe and Amazon ink deal involving expanded payments processing and AWS usage Stripe and Amazon ink deal involving expanded payments [...]

Under the new agreement, Stripe becomes a strategic partner for Amazon in the US, Europe, and Canada, processing a “significant” portion of the e-commerce giant’s total payments volume across its businesses, including Prime, Audible, Kindle, Amazon Pay, and Buy With Prime. Stripe will also [...] Read Article ›

Coca-Cola Bottler Turns to Shopper Data for SKU Rationalization Insights Coca-Cola Bottler Turns to Shopper Data for SKU [...]

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) Netherlands hopes to avoid out-of-stocks and overstocks with a new investment in assortment optimization. The bottling company, which serves 600 million consumers and has 1.75 million customers across 29 countries, has tapped SymphonyAI Retail CPG’s technology [...] Read Article ›

Kroger increases associate productivity with cloud analytics Kroger increases associate productivity with cloud analytics

Kroger Co. is leveraging cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to improve real-time associate performance. America’s largest grocery retailer is deploying a variety of Google Cloud data analytics, AI, and ML tools under an application framework co-developed [...] Read Article ›

'Walmart Business' Takes on Amazon With New B2B Procurement Website 'Walmart Business' Takes on Amazon With New B2B Procurement [...]

Walmart has unveiled a business-to-business procurement website in its latest bid to compete with Amazon. Launched Friday (Jan. 20), Walmart Business is an eCommerce site and “customer experience” aimed at Walmart’s small and medium-sized business (SMB) and nonprofit customers. Read Article ›

Cybersecurity Budgets and Staffing to Increase for Retail and Hospitality Industry Cybersecurity Budgets and Staffing to Increase for Retail [...]

Information security teams have always had to do more with less, but 2023 might be the year when they are able to do more with more. Riding a three-year trend, 70% of CISOs expect their budgets to increase again this year, while 60% also expect more FTEs, according to the CISO Benchmark Report [...] Read Article ›

GNC shifts customer contact center to cloud GNC shifts customer contact center to cloud

The vitamins and supplements retailer is utilizing the cloud-based UJet Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform as the backbone of its omnichannel, customer service operations. As a result, GNC hopes to leverage the heightened flexibility of the UJet cloud platform to more easily implement new, [...] Read Article ›

Chipotle adds location-based technology to its mobile app Chipotle adds location-based technology to its mobile app

Chipotle this week updated its popular mobile app, which hosts about 30 million Rewards members. The updates are certainly not bells or whistles, but rather the addition of simple new features meant to reduce friction for loyal consumers, who have proven they visit more frequently and spend more [...] Read Article ›

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