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Welcome back to our first retail opening round-up of 2019. Read more in Insider -Trends 

Requiring only an app to get started, Hero means that store associates can make more of quiet periods in-store by using their selling and relationship-building skills live online. The results speak for themselves. Hero reports a ten times higher conversion…

“It’s only by working with Ikea, we can tuck that sound into the furniture in hidden ways, that we could really stop people thinking about the speaker, and start thinking about the sound,” Sara Morris, product manager at Sonos Read…

Digital transformation is ultimately defined by the value of information, so addressing this soaring volume of unknown files with appropriate data management tools is crucial in turning that data into genuinely useful insights for the business. Read more in raconteur…

Pensa, a company that makes an autonomous mobile perception system to track inventory in stores, has $5 million in additional funding after a newly-announced round. With a total funding of more than $7 million, Pensa is now a contender in…

Over the last three years, thousands of stores shuttered–and dozens of companies went bankrupt. In 2017 alone, 7000 stores closed their doors, and many brands with large retail footprints filed for Chapter 11. Read more in Fast Company  The surprisingly…

Consumers can see a whole host of technologies are maturing: face recognition, voice recognition, image recognition. Taken together, these technologies make new forms of A-COMMERCE possible Read more in TrendWatching  The Future Of Retail By David Mattin was last modified:…

As one of the biggest retail markets in the world, Tokyo is fast becoming one of the most sought after places for retailers to embark on, and the level of innovation within these stores is something to aspire to. Find…

Check out our picks below to see the latest retail openings in Paris Read more in insider trends  The Best of Paris Store Openings November 2018 By Emma Palin was last modified: November 19th, 2018 by futu rist

Βoth retail leaders and laggards agree on the importance of improving the customer experience (CX) — and using innovation to do so. For example, 71% of leaders are committed to providing a better customer experience, compared to 68% of all…