Consumer goods companies who have struggled with digital marketing efforts over the years can look to Heineken USA for inspiration.
Source: Retail Leader
The pace of digital integration occurring in the supermarket industry is accelerating.No one would dispute that. Less clear is how fast and how far shoppers embrace digital engagement methods and fulfillment options.
Source: Retail Leader
Kohl’s, which had record online sales over the holidays while its overall business slumped badly, says that one-third of online orders are now either picked up in its stores or shipped by one (shaving a half-day off its average delivery time).
Source: Fortune USA
In November 2016, Verizon outlined a plan to combine consumers’ offline information—postal addresses, email addresses, device type, etc.
Source: ER
Cybercrime became big business last year. With large-scale hacks that affected Dropbox, Linkedln, Yahoo, Oracle, and even the IRS, the problem has reached crisis-level proportions.
Source: ER
Merchants and the payments industry alike are vying to encourage more consumers to use contactless payments as a way to displace cash, know more about consumer purchasing behavior, and expedite the transaction process.
Source: Digital Transaction
The upside lies in the phrase “faster payments,” with various proposals calling for real-time settlement, a term that means settlement within seconds. No more waiting a business day or longer to have use of funds.
Source: Digital Transaction
Tim Cook has talked up a lot of technologies since becoming Apple Inc.’s chief executive officer in 2011. Driverless cars. Artificial intelligence.
Source: Bloomberg
You may not be surprised to learn that pizza production at Domino’s hasn’t changed much in the 57 years since the company was founded.It’s still essentially hands on the dough and in the cheese.
Source: Bloomberg
China’s leadership seems to understand that when it comes to artificial intelligence, cheap imitations just won’t do-not when its rivals include Alphabet, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft.
Source: Bloomberg
Brick-and-mortar retail will continue to score with customers with digital services for consulting, purchase and delivery.
Source: iXtenso
Artificial intelligence has had a remarkable rise to fame over the last decade, evolving from unsuccessful attempts at creating ‘thinking computers’ into something that will fundamentally transform our lives for the better.
Source: TheRecord