Customers rely on essential businesses for food, medication and other daily needs. With such high traffic, it is vital for these businesses to effectively communicate in-store COVID-19 health protocol updates and address real-time issues to keep both customers and employees safe.
\nTo help essential businesses relay important ongoing information to customers and employees, LG Business Solutions has introduced a suite of cart-based digital signage bundles that allow store owners to easily communicate health and safety protocol messaging in real-time where it will be most effective.
Modern retailers operate in a disruptive world. Everything from how products are sourced and distributed to how consumers shop can be jolted at any time. Global interconnectedness makes retail vulnerable to incidents that in the past would only have limited impact.
\n\nFortunately, cloud computing serves as an ideal underlying technology solution to the enterprise issues posed by this environment. This paper examines how retailers can move their enterprise operations to the cloud to obtain the transparency, scalability, flexibility, and sheer analytical power needed to keep their operations ready to respond to whatever crisis may arise, before it occurs.
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Retail facilities managers face ever-growing challenges to maintain their stores: rising costs, tighter budgets and ever greater scrutiny from the C-suite. Thanks to advancing technologies, they also have more analytical tools than ever before to help them control those costs and justify these costs to headquarters. But are they using these analytics to their full potential?
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While everyone’s scrambling to collect data on every touchpoint, not enough brands are taking the time and effort to sync up their datasets (or their cross-channel strategies).
\nTo help brands understand how digital interactions line up with in-store behaviors, we triggered visit-detected surveys to nearly 16,000 consumers about their cross-channel shopping habits following a trip to a brick-and-mortar retailer.
\nAnd they told us a lot.
Fill out the form to download the report.
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