Staying one step ahead of the competition (or two if brands can swing it) is a crucial part of the wider issue of giving consumers what they want. Predictix has grown a company on the back of just that kind of predictive analysis, and its...
For decades, there weren’t many who could compete with Walmart when it came to in-store pricing, discounts and sales. As the retail landscape has shifted to emphasize the digital over the physical, though, Walmart has been confronted with the need to adapt to a new...
As startups work on projects like IoT and FinTech innovations that stand to change retail in the near future, just as many businesses have their eyes trained on the distant horizon in retail and what it might bring. For point-of-sale system manufacturer Elo, that future...
It’s not enough to have a robust eCommerce operation anymore. If that same platform doesn’t work when customers try to engage with it across another medium, retailers put themselves at risk of more lost sales than they can count. Fortunately, Mozu just announced a solution...
As consumers wait for the Internet of Things to round into a marketable and affordable form, startups are hard at work making sure that the next level of IoT functionality is ready and waiting for those early adopters brave enough to try something new. With...
When retailers try to untie the Gordian knot that has been slow-to-stationary beacon adoption, discussions usually center around infrastructure, policy and other behind-the-scenes development issues. This has kept some retailers chasing a wild goose of beacon potential that may never materialize — unless some new startups...
As beacons enter yet another year of waiting to take off, more and more startups are getting into the game of trying to figure out the secret sauce to perfect beacon implementation and consumer engagement. Notify Nearby, a recent entry to the field, may turn...
Beacons made more than a few top 10 lists around the tech world’s blogosphere, but few put forth specific steps by which beacons might finally make 2016 the year they established themselves in the retail world. Now, it looks like Estimote is at least keeping...
Minkasu, a mobile payments company operating out of California, has just secured $1 million in seed funding through a consortium of investors, TechCrunch reported Friday (Jan. 15). The roster of investors included a number of individual investors, among them Dan Palanisamy, former Bank of America...
