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Office Depot Accelerates Services Offerings With Oracle Cloud

Office Depot has been adding business and IT services to its offerings through acquisitions, including BizBox and CompuCom. The retailer also has made changes to its underlying IT infrastructure that…

News January 30

Retail Innovators Create Landscape For Promising Israeli Tech Startups

Four organizations dedicated to retail innovation — The Shelf, Nielsen Innovate, JVP Play and Deloitte — have collaborated to create the Israeli RetailTech Landscape, mapping out 100 promising Israeli startups…

News January 30

L.L.Bean Extends Forecasting Timelines To 18 Months, Tightens Inventory

As a retailer that began its journey in the catalog business, L.L.Bean has taken many steps to evolve its supply chain to cater to consumer demand. The latest move has…

Features January 30

Samsung Unveils Pop-Up Shop Solution, Emphasizes Many Opportunities Of Pop-Ups For Retailers

Retail TouchPoints’ Editor Andrew Gaffney sits down with Ian Hutchinson of Samsung to discuss the company’s new solution for pop-up shops and why there’s more opportunity to gain data out…

News January 29

New College Degree Program Provides Consumer Experience Management Training

The changing nature of retail — including the need for more customer-centricity — has had an impact on universities seeking to prepare students for jobs in the field. Recognizing a…

News January 29

The Top 5 E-Commerce Fulfillment Predictions For 2018

By Andrew Atkinson, GrandCanals There’s something about the start of the year that brings out the crystal-ball-gazer in all of us, even though, as Nobel-prize winning physicist Niels Bohr once…

Executive Viewpoints January 29

Key Trends From The 2017 Holiday Shopping Season

The 2017 holiday shopping season was record-breaking. Black Friday sales alone totaled $5 billion — with customers spending more than $1 million per minute online, according to e-commerce platform Shopify.…

Executive Viewpoints January 29

The Evolution (And Challenges) Of Omnichannel

Andrew Gaffney of Retail TouchPoints sits down with Madeleine Doucet and Michael Wexler of Multidev Technologies to discuss the evolution of omnichannel, the challenges retailers face when it comes to…

News January 29

Does The 5.5% Holiday Sales Increase Signal A 2018 Retail Rebound?

While 2017 was arguably a year of turmoil for retailers, the industry managed to end on a high note: $691.6 billion in holiday sales for November and December, a 5.5%…

Features January 28
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