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AI in Retail: Computer Vision for In-Store Inventory Management

In our AI in Retail series, we discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way retailers operate and interact with customers. This report discusses how computer vision can be integrated into inventory management systems to bring benefits to retailers. Selected use cases illustrate that retailers are collaborating with technology providers to roll out computer vision applications.

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Computer Vision and Visual Search: Transforming Retail Operations and the Shopping Experience

The retail industry has seen the rapid adoption of computer vision over the last few years. This transformative technology is enabling greater operational efficiency for retailers and is providing shoppers with new ways to explore products and interact with retailers and brands. Walmart is leading legacy retailers in the R&D of computer vision, while collaboration with emerging technology providers is a key adoption strategy for many retailers.

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Holiday 2019: Global Holiday Cities—London

London retailers rise to the holiday challenge with innovative approaches to draw in and engage consumers for the 2019 holiday season. We’re seeing railway stations transform into shopping destinations, popups popping up and department stores offer a range of experiences.

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How Computer Vision Can Save Retailers from Costly In-Store Execution Issues

Retailers face a complex business environment in which strong in-store execution is key to delivering a consistent, high-quality shopping experience—which requires exceptional store operations management. Poor in-store execution can easily lead to issues such as infrequent stock replenishment, misplaced SKUs and non-compliance with planograms, prices and promotions.

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Insights into Belgrade’s Innovation Ecosystem

We discuss the nature and impact of the emerging technology innovation ecosystem of Belgrade in Serbia, which is evolving as a solid community of innovative companies and as a regional hub for the Balkans and Southeast Europe. The Coresight Research team visited Belgrade to talk with notable accelerators and startups, including one that applies blockchain technology in the food supply chain and another that helps retailers with staff training.

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Holiday 2019: UK Black Friday Insights

On November 29, Coresight Research’s UK team undertook its fifth annual tour of stores in central London for Black Friday. In this report, we pick out likely outperformers, one apparent underperformer and other stores of note. We also provide a table comparing promotions this year to those of 2018.

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Retail-Tech Landscape: Artificial Intelligence in Retail

In this report, we continue our Retail-Tech Landscape report series, which spotlights innovative retail-tech companies that are disrupting the retail industry. This landscape focuses on technology startups that are providing AI solutions for the retail industry across the supply chain.

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Retail-Tech Landscape: The Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) improves retail operations and transforms the consumer shopping experience. This report continues our Retail-Tech Landscape series. It lists notable companies that are utilizing the IoT to provide applications focused around improving consumer engagement, measuring and analyzing shopper behavior and managing supply chains, inventory, store operations, payments and waste management.

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RFID and NFC in Retail

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communication (NFC) are key technologies to digitalize store operations and can be instrumental to facilitate omnichannel retail.

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Amazon Prime Day 2019 Insights: Europe

Prime Day 2019 started July 15 at midnight local time in the UK and eight other European markets and ran for 48 hours. Amazon offered Prime Day deals to shoppers in in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, France, Belgium and Austria.

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