Retail

TD Tawandang And Google Cloud Democratize Analytics And AI To Rejuvenate Mom-And-Pop Stores And Thailand’s Grassroots Economy
Google Cloud accelerates the delivery of a high-tech, retail-as-a-service platform that levels the playing field for micro-retailers across the country Bangkok, Thailand, May 5, 2022 – TD Tawandang (“TD”), a leading retail technology company, is collaborating with Google Cloud to help conventional mom-and-pop stores reinvent their business operations, overcome competitive challenges, and boost profitability. Thailand’s mom-and-pop stores – …

Shoppers Know What They Want. Does Your Site’s Search Understand?
How many times has a shopper searched for a product on a store’s website only to get results that aren’t relevant—or worse, provided no search results at all? While most ecommerce sites have search capabilities, few accomplish their ultimate goal: making it easy for customers to discover the products they want. Some 94% of U.S. …

The 2022 NRF “Big Show” Validates Retail’s Need To Leverage Digital Connectivity And Data To Transform Business
For a look ahead at the trends that will animate the retail industry this year, let’s take a look back at the 2022 National Retail Federation (NRF) “Big Show” in NYC. Attendees at January’s event were treated to tangible examples of how retail challenges are being solved today, including new solutions to help them parse …

Using AI/ML And Real-Time Data At Scale To Help Retailers Improve On-Shelf Availability And Ecommerce Profitability
Editor’s note: We’re inviting partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that has seen tremendous change. The original version of this blog was published by Trax Retail in October 2021. Please enjoy this updated entry from our …

How To Build A Digital Commerce Platform On Google Cloud
Are you a retailer looking to create a next-gen digital commerce platform? If so, you have landed at the right place! This post describes three different ways to modernize your ecommerce platform on Google Cloud. No one way is right or wrong. You can start off on any path that works well for your team …

Retailers Unwrap A Successful 2021 Holiday Season With Google’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday Program
Over the last five years, the November-December holiday shopping season has accounted for an average of 19 percent of annual retail sales, driven in large part by the surge in shopping over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In 2021, nearly 180 million Americans shopped between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, generating online sales of $8.9B …

Retailers Now Need To “Always Be Pivoting.” Here’s Three Moves Keeping Them Going
For years, retailers have been told that they must embrace a litany of new technologies, trends, and imperatives like online shopping, mobile apps, omnichannel, and digital transformation. In search of growth and stability, retailers adopted many of these, only to realize that for every box they ticked, there was another one waiting. And then the …

How Can Demand Forecasting Approach Real Time Responsiveness? Vertex AI Makes It Possible
Everyone wishes they had a crystal ball—especially retailers and consumer goods companies looking for the next big trend, or logistics companies worried about the next big storm. With a veritable universe of data now at their fingertips (or at least at their keyboards), these companies can now get closer to real-time forecasting across a range …

Quantum Metric Explores Retail Big Data Use Cases On BigQuery
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that has seen tremendous change. The original version of this blog was published by Quantum Metric. Please enjoy this updated …

Crate And Barrel Boosts Online Customer Experience With Better Site Search Powered By Lucidworks On Google Cloud
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that has seen tremendous change. We hope you enjoy these series of guest blogs from our partners. Crate and Barrel …