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AI at the retail edge: What’s new, and what’s coming soon

CIO

You couldn’t tell what someone was buying until they swiped their card, and by then they were done shopping.But when combined with a long-standing technology — radio frequency identification (RFID) tags — smart shopping is finally beginning to deliver on its promise. RFID can even enable self-service checkouts in the apparel industry.

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Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M

TechCrunch

adults in an August 2021 Gallup survey saying that they’ve been unable to get a product they wanted in the past two months because of shortages. They] struggled with … opacity due to multiple middlemen and their manufacturers being thousands of miles away.” Fashinza’s B2B supply chain marketplace.

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Zest wants to make buying and sending gifts online ‘delightful’

TechCrunch

While it might ruin the surprise, a 2015 survey from Loop Commerce (now GiftNow) found that buying the wrong size and the hassle of online returns were some of the top reasons people were reluctant to buy gifts online. There’s certainly something to affording recipients some choice in their online gifts.

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Covid-19 Accelerates The Need for Retail, Manufacturing Supply Chains To Adapt

Cloudera

The ongoing disruption to critical supply chains in both the manufacturing and retail space has seen businesses having to respond quickly, turning to data, analytics, and new technologies to better predict and manage ‘real-time’ business disruptions. . Companies are also shifting their technology investments. Brent Biddulph: .

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How to reinvent Mobile eCommerce App through Personalization

Openxcell

Growing digitalization in the business involves growing competition and brands are evolving technology to deal with the competition. The last year 2019 is the big answer proving why “Personalization technology” is important and how it helped business marketing to grow. Process of reinventing business with technology.

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Don’t let product returns eat into your profits

Zensar

In a customer survey, 91% of the respondents indicated that the return policy impacts their purchasing decision to a great extent. Besides chipping away at your pocket, returned goods are also impacting the environment adversely due to a shortage of space and resources to handle it. Use of Intelligent Technology for Better Product Fit.

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Jamstack Conf 2021 Speaker Lineup

Netlify

2021 State of the Jamstack Survey results. With physical stores closed by the pandemic, Universal Standard, the most size-inclusive apparel company, migrated to the Jamstack on Shopify with Nuxt.js. But as content management systems are concerned, WordPress is still king due to its long history and well-crafted UX. Live demos.