Solopreneur Vs. Entrepreneur: Two Paths to Building Your Dream
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The Ideal Technology Stack Can Revolutionize Supply Chain
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How Tech is Redefining Beauty Retail in India?
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AadhaarPay and Cash Become Preferred Modes of Payment for Women Customers
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Small Merchants Gain Popularity in Bigger Markets
Gone are the days when a small merchant running a shop in some town or tier-3 city was unable to register its presence in bigger markets of tier-1…
Retail in Future: Harnessing the Power of New-Age Tech to Thrive in 2021
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2021: An Intricate Year to Retain Growth and Progress
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2020: A Game Changing Year for the D2C Industry
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84 pc Indian Consumers feel AI drives better customer experience
About 84 per cent Indian consumers agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to provide better customer experience, improve brand…
Automation Trends In E-Commerce 2021: A Game Changer
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Low-Code Emerges as Key Enabler for Retail's New Normal Journey
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Disruptive Retail Tech Trends to Watch in 2021
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Robotics & Artificial Intelligence: Fueling Growth of Indian FMCG Industry
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Transformation Of Digital Retail
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New Tech:The Way It's Changing Consumer Purchasing
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What New Experiences are Consumers Looking from Retailers in 2021
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Companies Using Product Intelligence 5.5x More Likely to See 25%+ Growth Y-o- Y
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Touchless Payments: Enabling Smooth Transactions For Retailers
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OnePlus: An Experience-Driven Success Story
OnePlus, has succeeded to make a mark in offline expansion despite being a digital-first brand. In collaboration with several retail partners,…
What are the trends that are seen this year for online shopping?
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Technologies That are Helping SMEs Expand this Festive Season
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How Chatbots & Intelligent BPO Are Enhancing Customer Experience In Retail Industry
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Scenario and prospects of Artificial Intelligence in retail & consumer goods sectors
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Why Retailers Are Innovating & Diving Deeper into AI and Robotics Solutions?
From groceries and consumer electronics to apparel and pharmaceuticals, all retail sectors are hyper-competitive today.  As customers in the present…
Retail & Etail Reset & Reimagined- Enhancing CX virtually
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Smart Home Trends in India and How IoT is enabling it
Smart Home systems have witnessed massive growth and adoption globally in the last 2-3 years. Even in India, we are witnessing a tremendous increase…
Benefits of Having a Custom Software Development Company
As far as modern software and commerce go, technology is considered as being at the centre of it all. Business owners all around the world might find…
How to build Phygital shopping experiences in India?
The retail industry in India comprises of over 15 million retailers including small, medium and big; and both traditional and modern trade are…
How to Choose an E-commerce SEO Agency?
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Important features every e-commerce website must have
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How AR/VR is the future of Retail
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How to select right 'contactless' payment enabler for retail business?
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Rise of the new retailer, in the new normal
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How Digital Transformation is Revolutionizing the Retail Industry
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Decoding the new normalcy: Adapting to change in customer preferences
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Cybersecurity Threats Every Ecommerce Startup Should Watch Out for
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How data technology can help small businesses ride the e-commerce wave
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How AI Can Save the Day for Retailers Amid Coronavirus Crisis
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[Covid 19] How zero touch payments are booming?
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How Blockchain Helps in Shaping Up the Retail Industry
You might have heard of the new digital currency that is circulating the cyberworld called Bitcoin. Resembling the stock market, Bitcoin also…
Explore the next level of consumer experience with retail analytics
The India retail industry is one of the most dynamic industry and has undergone a disruption like never in the last few years! Retailers are striving…
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How advanced digital technologies deliver immersive consumer experiences?
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How Virtual CFO Can Help Small Retailers?
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How Retailers Can Win With Data Driven Retail Experiences?
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How New-Age Analytics Can Transform the Retail Industry?
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How Sales Force Automation is Transforming the Way of Doing Business in India?
India is thriving on technology as part of its journey to become a global power. The technological revolution has gone beyond sectors and become an…
Indian retailers should ready for IFRS 16-driven change
Indian corporations, like their counterparts around the world, are working to ensure compliance with IndAS116 - the local equivalent of the IFRS 16…
How Retail Giants are Leveraging their Brands from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data?
Information can be a game changer if used wisely. The amount of data retail companies capture these days across various trade channels, have left the…
Top learning from traditional brick-and-mortar retailers to safeguard the cart!
India’s traditional brick and mortar stores havelong relied on “relationship marketing” to ensure customer loyalty and incremental long-term…
How AI is strengthening omnichannel analytics in Indian Retail Sector?
For retailers to deliver a truly omnichannel experience, they must integrate data across channels and evaluate the same. This is easier said than…
The Emergence of Analytical Techniques in Value Retail
Could you ever think the data accumulated a decade ago, while carrying day today business could boil down to digits in zettabytes and help us to…
How AI is next big thing in data driven customer engagement?
Artificial Intelligence is not a single technology; rather, it’s an umbrella term for technologies inspired by human biological systems. AI…
How sound-wave technology is poised to revolutionize the retail space in India?
Post the implementation of demonetization, the government made substantial strides towards the propagation and acceptance of digital payment…
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Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (GCPL) is a leading FMCG company which operates in India and in several other emerging markets. It’s products reach…
Four Voice assistants’ trends that are changing the retail sector
You never grow old enough to not give into your mom’s sentiments. It was the auspicious Akashya Tritihya and her instruction was clear ‘if not gold…
Human Intelligence the future of AI?
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Capgemini research reveals consumers are embracing AI
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How Ease of Conducting Digital Transactions is Transforming the Retail Experience of Indian Consumers?
Technology and retail have had a slightly complicated relationship- while technology has been brimming with ideas to transform the retail segment,…
FirstCry Launches Virtual Assistant Jenna
FirstCry.com, India’s largest omni-channel baby and kids retailer, today announced the release of its Virtual Assistant – Jenna, an Artificial…
How Macy’s is creating seamless shopping experience?
Macy’s, Inc. is one of the US based premier retailers with strong footprint of more than 700 department stores operating under the nameplates Macy’…
How Marico gains agility in decision making process?
Operating in the wellness and beauty space, Marico Ltd. ranks amongst India's leading consumer products companies. It is currently present in 25…
How payments are becoming more innovative?
Indian customers tends to prefer conventional way of shopping by just walking inside the store select goods they need and pay either by cash or…
How personalization is transforming Retail?
Personalisation was always an important aspect and with the advent of e-commerce it has become mandatory all retailers to personalized the entire…
How technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality’ (VR) and ‘Augmented Reality’ (AR) are changing the retailing forever?
Taking the recent forecasts in count, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) could well become the biggest technology disruption since the…
How digital transactions can be secured?
As India moves rapidly toward organised retailing and cashless transactions, quick response (QR) code-based payments are gaining ground by the day…
How retailers can deal with counterfeit luxury?
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As the dust settles down on demonetization it is pertinent to ask if the process of demonetization is really a game changer for digital payments.…
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Post demonetization, consumers are fast moving towards cashless transactions. For digital payments, customers look for faster, safer and seamless…
How technology can boost event based sale activities!
There is no denying the supremacy of technology in the retail sale segment with both online and offline business scaling to new heights with it.…
HDFC RED starts its instagram photography campaign, #LanesByLens
HDFC RED, a digital marketplace for home buyers and developers, aims to bring back the importance of the lanes in our lives, through the medium of…
Indian Retail Real Estate: Proofing the Revolution
Indian retail real estate has undergone a tremendous metamorphosis since the advent of organised retail in the early '90s. Major transitions have…
Global Accessories major CAPDASE Joins Hands with YMS Mobitech
CAPDASE, known for delivering a wide range of innovative solutions and its partnerships with the world's leading smartphone companies, has inked a…
How mobile messaging can upturn revenue for retailers?
It has been observed that the retail industry is experiencing a significant paradigm shift driven by technological innovations. The…
How Indian retailers are moving towards omni-channel retail Version 2.0
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Every new business trying to start and establish itself faces a lot of challenges since its inception. However, B2B Tech Startups face some…
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