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Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Is the Convenience Industry Ready?

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Even retailers whose stores use BI tools suffer from low hit rate and lack clear revenue gain. In this article, we exami...

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How Technology Inspired and Drove Fast Fashion’s Meteoric Rise

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Gamification in Retail: Delighting Shoppers & Store Teams Alike

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Paper Coupons: Still Relevant for Retailers in a Digital World?

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What Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Bet Means for Retail

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In this survey, we asked 1,500 grocery shoppers about their experiences with the industry's biggest brands. Learn what's...

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How One Retailer’s Productivity Point System Failed Employees

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Speak and Shop: How IT Teams Use Retail Voice Technology

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4 Retail Inventory Mistakes and How to Fix Them

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In these interviews, learn how the top women in grocery are tackling challenges in the industy, and what they think are ...

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Retail Technology — 5 min read

What You Need to Know About Grocery Store Technology

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Cannibalism and Complementary Effects in Retail

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How Retail Technology Investments Improve Same-Store Growth

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What is Boring Retail? And How to Avoid It in Your Stores

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In this article learn how top retail brands are using AI to improve their store walks and ability to discover and correc...

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Tracking Promotions Across Your Retail Chain

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How to Improve Same-Store Sales Using Promotions

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Why Do Retail Customers Prefer an In-Store Experience?

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Novelty Detection: Finding New Classes of Anomalies in Complex Processes

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In this report, learn what convenience shoppers care most about, and how they rank the top c-store brands according to e...

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Retail Technology — 3 min read

Kohl’s Geek Day 2018, The Future of Retail Technology

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Know This: Demand Patterns vs. Purchasing Patterns in Retail

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The Challenges of Time-Series Forecasting in Retail

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The Challenge of Solving Operational Issues in C-Stores

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In this article, learn how CB4 helps operations and IT teams accomplish their shared goals with a minimum requirement of...

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Aggregated Market Basket Analysis and Tricky Analytics

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Retail Analytics – How Granular Should You Get?

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How Conventional Sales Benchmarking Fails Retail Analytics

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