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GUEST RESEARCH:  Across regions, consumers say they are willing to spend more for food and beverage, cleaning products and more, but high prices and perceptions of greenwashing remain key barriers

In an increasingly technology-driven world, more and more data is being gathered by the products and services that we use. Gone are the days of paper sign-ins - instead, digital check-in products are just one example of how computing has transformed how data is collected, collated, and stored.

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Leaders Achieve Up to 3X Revenue Growth and 1.7X Customer Lifetime Value

GUEST RESEARCH:  KFC, Guzman Y Gomez, Zambrero and Subway record the highest new store openings

New feature turns complex data into confident growth strategies, taking the risk out of location decisions

GUEST EVENTS:  Discover key technology trends in Retail, Transport & Logistics and Manufacturing

COMPANY NEWS:  Forrester study finds anticipating customer needs and improving 

V200 expands Motorola Solutions’ enterprise security offerings for customers in retail, healthcare, hospitality and education

GUEST OPINION:  Omnichannel innovation, AI-driven personalisation, and sustainability among the key drivers shaping the future of retail

New Relic State of Observability for Retail report shows significant benefit of investing in observability, with 302% ROI reported by retail organizations

GUEST RESEARCH:  Inflation, inventory, and AI-driven strategies to shape peak season

New Relic has unveiled the New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform, which the company says transforms observability from ensuring uptime and reliability into a key driver of business growth and developer velocity for enterprises worldwide.

GUEST OPINION:  Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) technology is a widely adopted solution for automatic vehicle identification across a variety of public and private sectors. This system uses optical character recognition (OCR) to read and interpret vehicle registration plates from images or video footage captured by cameras, providing valuable insights and automating several processes.

GUEST OPINION:  Businesses of all kinds are advancing strategies and programs that bring together data from all corners. Combining and coalescing the data is helping find new solutions to problems or to unlock value. Increasingly, one of those pillars is physical security.

Cutting-edge innovations in supply chain planning and generative AI took centre stage at annual Manhattan Exchange event

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COMPANY NEWS:  As cost-of-living pressures mount and the post-End of Financial Year (EOFY) period settles in, the retail landscape is being reshaped by a critical factor: return policies. New research from Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) reveals that consumers are becoming increasingly cautious with their purchases making flexible and customer-friendly return options more essential than ever. The study showed that 72% of respondents are now more inclined to return products due to financial pressures, underscoring a shift towards more discerning purchasing behaviour.

As Australian consumer expectations hit an all-time high, 77% of shoppers say they expect full transparency regarding the location of their online orders throughout the entire delivery process.

The National Retail Association (NRA) has warned that if the Reserve Bank decides to raise interest rates at its next meeting, at minimum it would “significantly weaken consumer demand, forward orders and employment in the lead up to the critical trading periods of November and December” and, at worst, “potentially trigger a sector-wide recession in retail”.