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Physical experience, digital convenience: The future of retail

CIO

The future of retail is “phygital,” as every retail and ecommerce publication on the internet is screaming right now. If you’ve never heard the term before, it’s a portmanteau of “physical” and “digital” – and represents the merging of the two forms of retail and shopping. How do they do that? How do they do that? Can AI help?

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Nvidia offers retail loss prevention software to accelerate accelerator chip sales

CIO

GPU manufacturer Nvidia is expanding its enterprise software offering with three new AI workflows for retailers it hopes will also drive sales of its hardware accelerators. Nvidia isn’t packaging these workflows as off-the-shelf applications, however. The workflows are built on Nvidia’s existing AI technology platform.

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How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics

TechCrunch

If you’re the founder of an e-commerce startup, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using a platform like Shopify, BigCommerce or WooCommerce, and one of the dozens of analytics extensions like RetentionX, Sensai metrics or ProfitWell that provide off-the-shelf reporting. Don’t rely on them after you’ve outgrown them.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Building Custom Retail Software

KitelyTech

The retail industry relies heavily on software for sales, both in selling products and processing sales. For a company to really stand out, it needs to have custom-built retail software that not only works well for selling to customers online, but can also be used to facilitate states in stores efficiently.

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Hivery bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

TechCrunch

Hivery , a startup that bills itself as an “optimization platform” for retailers, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global, the embattled private equity firm, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, AS1 Growth Partners and OneVentures. We call it ‘hyper-local retailing.'”

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Streaming Analytics in the Real World

Cloudera

From leading banks, and insurance organizations to some of the largest telcos, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare and pharma, organizations across diverse verticals lead the way with real-time data and streaming analytics. The data shelf life is decreasing,” said Marr. Static, historical data is no longer enough. .

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New Zealand-based Imagr thinks camera-based AI is the future of shopping trolleys

TechCrunch

With COVID, I think what you probably saw was a huge rush on supermarkets that really exposed a number of things retailers weren’t prepared for,” Will Chomley, CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. “It Imagr, which recently had a pop-up shop in London to demonstrate its tech, is currently raising its Series A after it raised $9.5