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Microsoft AI Tool Lets Retailers Track Shoppers’ Actions

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Microsoft announced that it is launching two new software solutions to give traditional retailers the ability to track customers and improve service. The two new solutions — Dynamics 365 Connected Store and Dynamics 365 Commerce — were created to help businesses transform the retail experience.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable margin was for a firm operating in the retail business. In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average.

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Walmart Offers Cheaper Supplier Finance For Sustainability

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The retailer’s Sustainability Index Program analyzes data across a product’s lifecycle to assess its impact on the environment. Supply chains account for more than 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and more than 90 percent of air, land, water, geological resource, and biodiversity impacts.

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Loyalty Firm Punchh Raises $40M For Brick-and-Mortar Analytics

PYMNTS

As eCommerce rises in popularity – currently accounting for about 11 percent of retail sales, which is an increase of about 14.8 percent from last year – retail is coming up with innovative ways to compete. That data is then fed into Punchh’s AI models to help improve its analytics engine.

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AI/Bot: Dole’s Secret Artificial Intelligence Weapon

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PYMNTS spoke with Dole Packaged Foods Asia VP of Marketing and Innovation Ashvin Subramanyam and Albert CEO Or Shani about this campaign and learned what AI is doing for the retail space. It’s clear that artificial intelligence has had an enormous impact on the retail industry as evidence by Dole Asia’s awareness campaign results.

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How 6 organizations have achieved Superplännen

Jedox Finance

Retailer accelerates budgeting and reporting 2. Chemical manufacturer plans for any scenario Integrating cross-organizational data 3. Cleantech provider integrates data seamlessly 4. Excel was sufficient when Accent had just 20 stores, but the retailer grew to more than 400 stores in just three years.

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UberMedia Hopes To ‘Fence In’ Customers With Optimal GeoSpace

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UberMedia , a company known for transforming “mobile behavioral data,” announced on Wednesday (July 13) that it was launching a new product, Optimal GeoSpace, which the brand says will erect a “virtual fence around individual retail shopping areas, enabling retail marketers to fully capitalize on the actual footprint of a customer.”.