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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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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $17 million, which CEO Sankalp Arora says is being put toward expanding Gather’s deployment capacity and go-to-market plans as well as hiring new machine learning engineers. So does Pensa Systems, Vimaan, Intelligent Flying Machines , Vtrus and Verity.

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Chiper aims to ease inventory burdens for Latin American corner stores

TechCrunch

The way that retailers design their systems to visit corner stores means the stores have to buy more products to last a longer time between visits, but often don’t have the working capital or shelf space,” Bonilla told TechCrunch. “The All of the processes are connected with our technology that stakeholders access from an app.”.

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Next Best Action Marketing: How to Implement Hyper-Personalization with Machine Learning

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll discuss what the next best action strategy is and how businesses define the next best action using machine learning-based recommender systems. The funnel for each customer is unique as each customer learns about a company or its services at their own pace and style. This changes the game for marketers.

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How Retailers Use Artificial Intelligence to Innovate Customer Experience and Enhance Operations

Altexsoft

percent of all retail sales (2.3 eCommerce share of total retail sales worldwide from 2015 to 2021. To remain competitive, retailers must allow in-store customers to enjoy the benefits of online shopping. In 2017, global eCommerce sales accounted for 10.2 trillion US dollars). This figure is projected to reach 17.5

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AI-First Benefits: 5 Real-World Outcomes

Cloudera

In a retail operation, for instance, AI-driven smart shelf systems use Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based applications to alert the back room to replenish items. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a focus for research for decades, but has only recently become truly viable. Benefits aplenty. Faster decisions . Error reduction.

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Freshflow is helping grocery retailers fight food waste

TechCrunch

For years grocery retailers have been using data driven forecasting to help them predict demand to figure out which products to reorder to keep shelves stocked. ” “And because that is the opinion … until now, for the most part, retailers have just relied upon people to do this part.” That’s nothing new.

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