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  • Tech Guest Viewpoint: Physical Security Elevates Customer Experience

    By Steve Sell, Director of Marketing, Retail, Tyco Integrated Security

    The shift towards an omnichannel retail environment is no longer a theory; it’s a reality that customers are expecting higher levels of customer experience and savvy retailers are responding to as fast as they can. As the lines between brick-and-mortar, online and mobile shopping continue to blur, retailers must deliver an exceptional customer experience across all channels.

  • Tech Bytes: Three Technologies Poised to Disrupt Future of Retail

    A lot of attention has been paid to a variety of technologies currently disrupting retail, like beacons and wearable devices. Here are three technologies still in the development phase that hold potential to radically disrupt retail, and even life as we know it, in the next 10 years:

    Quantum Computing

  • Chili’s provides digitally rewarding experience

  • Accenture expands retail practice with Javelin purchase, digital center

    London - Accenture is expanding its retail practice with an agreement to acquire Javelin Group, a U.K.-based retail strategy consulting and digital transformation services provider. The acquisition will expand the capabilities of Accenture Strategy to help retailers and consumer brands accelerate their digital transformation.

  • Report: Google to roll out 'Buy' buttons

    Google Inc. is reportedly planning to start providing users with “Buy” buttons in their search results within the next few weeks.

  • Braving the Currency Storm: What U.S. Brands Can Do

    By Brian Ehrig

    The U.S. dollar has risen by more than 20% against the other major currencies over the last year, buoyed by a respectable if not torrid economic recovery and sinking oil prices, among other factors. That could be a breath of fresh air for U.S. shoppers with a taste for imported goods. For global mega-brands like PVH, Microsoft and Coach, however, the implications are closer to a gathering storm.

  • Accenture acquisition to expand digital consulting capabilities

    Retailers are poised to benefit from a new deal between Accenture and Javelin Group, a UK-based retail strategy consulting and digital transformation services provider.

    The acquisition will expand the capabilities of Accenture Strategy to help the world’s leading retailers and consumer brands accelerate their digital transformation. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and completion of the acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.

  • Ascena goes shopping for career women

    Ascena Retail Group may be looking to attract younger, more career-oriented shoppers with its $2.15 buyout of rival Ann Inc.

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