digital retail

Programmable Retail: Reading the Status of your Business from the Network (the Sunny Day Example)

These are certainly not easy times to be a retailer. While consumer spending is continuing to outpace analyst expectations despite

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Programmable Retail: Writing Intentions to the Network (the Rainy Day Example)

The weather, what a celebrity wore, a winning recipe from a cookery show, an on-trend brand opening a flagship store

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5 Ways to Stop Hackers Hitting your Retail Business

In my last blog, we established that retailers are a very attractive, and lucrative, target for hackers, and that cyber

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Why working in Retail got so frustrating, and how Cisco Retail is working to fix it

Ever find shopping frustrating? I do, as I lamented in my last blog. But we should all spare a thought

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More than Just Security: The Future of In-Store Surveillance #3

In my previous blog in this series, we explored some of the new and exciting possibilities created in retail by

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Why shopping got so frustrating, and how Cisco Retail is working to simplify it

In days of old (way back in the early 2000s), if I wanted to buy something, I had two choices.

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More than Just Security: The Future of In-Store Surveillance #2

In the first of this blog series, we explored some of the new and exciting possibilities created in retail by…

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Diary of a Digitally Disrupted Consumer: Top 5 New York Tech Trends In-Store Right Now

The great and the good of the retail world (35,000 in total) last week descended upon New York for ‘Retail’s

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More than Just Security: The Future of In-Store Surveillance #1

When is an in-store security camera not a theft prevention measure? When it’s a video-based analytics tool, of course! IP

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Diary of a Digitally Disrupted Consumer: Looking Ahead – 2017 Resolutions for Retailers

If astrology covered industry, UK retailers would be reading their 2017 horoscope with trepidation….

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