SmartStores is a technology news site targeted at developments in the retail sector. It covers topics in retail as diverse as privacy to technologies that are bringing retail into the 21st century.
Today’s retail environment competes head on with an ever increasing online world of shopping and shipping. The online world certainly has advantages that include: purchasing from your home, smart tracking, loaded preferences, and recommendations. But retail is reacting in a positive way by utilizing its own advantages like the personal touch, interacting and presentation of products, as well as the ability to attract passers by.
Smart technology can and should be added to the retail experience, to allow retail to compete on even terms with some of the advantages that online shopping has. Technology such as smart shelves, smart carts, smart payments, robots, and augmented reality via smart phones are certainly adding value. RFID technology is also helping retail to keep track of all incoming and outgoing products and aiding smart technologies to interact with products.
At SmartStores, we will keep you up to date with unique ways that retail is competing with online shopping to lure shoppers back from the internet.
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