Amazon launches an assistant to help with employee social distancing

June 17, 2020

Amazon, in a quest to keep employees healthy, is using a newly developed assistant technology to help workers adhere to social distancing rules.

5 reasons why chatbots represent a huge opportunity for retailers

by Julien Rio — Marketing Director, Engage Digital, RingCentral

Julien Rio, marketing director at RingCentral Engage Digital, outlines some reasons e-commerce retailers should consider using chatbots.

Amazon debuts first Go Grocery store

February 25, 2020

Omnichannel giant Amazon is opening the doors today to its first cashierless grocery store, called Amazon Go Grocery, in Seattle.

AREA15 CEO talks experiential retail and the need to be cool and creative

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

AREA15 CEO Winston Fisher is passionate about retail development and delivering immersive experential experiences. He shares his insight on why content is king…

Researchers: Printed masks can fool facial recognition systems

December 24, 2019

Researchers at Kneron, an artificial-intelligence provider, said they fooled facial recognition systems using a printed mask showing a different person's face…

Nets trials facial-recognition payments

December 18, 2019

Under the tagline "Hungry? Face it," Nets, a Nordic provider of digital payment services, has launched a pilot testing facial recognition as a payment method…

All the ways SD-WAN reduces costs for retailers

Jeff Bradbury, senior marketing director, North America for Hughes Network Systems, maps out how retailers can save money with SD-WAN, and that often the total…

What retailers really need in a voice assistant platform

Efrat Blaier, co-founder and CTO of Mmuze, explains why retailers should be looking at the platforms with specialized functionality for their unique fields…

Examining the state of voice shopping

Matt Lang, strategy director, and Will Hall, chief creative officer, of Rain, examine all that's been happening with voice retail technologies this year.

Survey: There is a digital disconnect happening in retail

November 21, 2019

While nearly every retailer (95%) realizes the important of evaluating the user experience, and how it impacts business outcome, a good number (60%) are…

Study: There's a disconnect between retail, IoT value

November 20, 2019

While more retailers understand the value in IoT technology, just half know how it will impact operations in the next three years. That, according to a Retail…

How to: Keep pace with the rapid pace of CX technology

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Retailers struggle with keeping up with all the emerging customer experience technologies and the challenges in piloting and testing. Find out from an expert…

Talking With: AWS retail leader Tom Litchford on data, the cloud, retail customer experience

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Tom Litchford, head of worldwide business development, retail, for Amazon Web Services, provides insight on pain points for retailers striving to boost the…

Amazon mulls selling cashierless technology to other retailers

October 1, 2019

Amazon is speaking to people about bringing its Amazon Go cashierless technology to other retailers such as airport shops and movie theaters, according to a…

Talking With: Ricardo Belmar on the big CX buzz in 2019

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

It’s been a year since Retail Customer Experience chatted with Ricardo Belmar, senior director of global enterprise marketing at Infovista, about trends…

Attaining retail operational excellence with indoor location technology

Chris Todd, CEO of Theatro, explains why It's time for retailers to focus on applying location technology to associates in order to serve customers more…

Why robots will never replace human connection in retail

Marc Gingras, an entrepreneur, angel investor and CEO of Foko Retail, explains why robots, an increasing presence in retail, and other new age technology isn't…

New York home to driverless fleet

August 12, 2019

The Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York is now home to a fleet of six driver-less cars running seven days each week to shuffle ferry passengers for free around the…

Cashierless checkout startup raises $35M in funding

August 8, 2019

Standard Cognition, which provides cashierless checkout technology, has raised $35 million in Series B funding, which more than doubles its valuation to $53…

The rise of technology in experiential retail

Mark Matthews, marketing strategist, NEXT/NOW, surveys the rise of experiential technologies in retail, from atmosphere to wayfinding to analytics.