How a Positive Customer Experience Leads to Loyal Shoppers

When a shopper steps inside a store, their gaze fixed on the return counter while awkwardly carrying a crumpled box under their arm, the spotlight shifts to the retailer. This is their moment to shine or falter. The way a store handles this crucial...

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Research Shows Return Rates Are Nearly Double Online Versus In-Store

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Safeguarding Retailers: Ecommerce Fraud Prevention Best Practices

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Appriss Retail Named a Leader by RIS News 2020

Annual Ranking Pegs Appriss as a Top Player in Retail Across 22 Separate Categories Appriss Retail, the industry leader in retail performance improvement solutions, today announced that the company has been named a leader by RIS News as a part of the....

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It’s Time to Refresh Your Perspective

“Jim, what could we do differently?” “Liz, how can I find out…?” You have probably asked a vendor to explain how to use a solution feature. When was the last time you called customer service for a new perspective, a fresh approach to your process? Many....

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Appriss Retail Makes Aspect, APIS, and LPMS Available in the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Newly Acquired Solutions to Benefit from Unlimited Capacity for Growth and Scalability Appriss Retail, the industry leader in retail performance improvement solutions, today will make several of its retail loss prevention solutions – Aspect EliteLP™, APIS....

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Infographic: 5 Ways to Improve Associate Training & Customer Service

Improve store employee training and deliver more value to the business. Has associate training taken a back seat to “more important” tasks? Consider that front-line employees create the last and most important impression on consumers. This reason alone should....

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Implementing a Continuous Arrest Monitoring Program in Your Workplace

Industry Best Practices The growing popularity of at-home grocery and meal delivery services, as well as in-store consumer perks, such as play areas for children, have left customers interacting with retail employees in a new and vulnerable way. Sending....

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Is Your BORIS/BOPIS a Win-Win? | Part Two

5 Things Every Store Should Consider View part one of the blog here. In the first part of this series, we covered the many options there are when it comes to deciding how your Buy-Online-Pickup-In-Store (BOPIS) and Buy-Online-Return-In-Store (BORIS) services....

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Is Your BORIS/BOPIS a Win-Win? | Part One

View part two of the blog here. 5 Things Every Retailer Should Consider The new frontier of omnichannel retail has proved to be an exciting and challenging time. Instead of brick-and-mortar stores only serving their original purpose of selling goods or....

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Appriss Acquires Verisk’s Retail Loss Prevention Solutions

Adding product lines and client bases increases Appriss’ retail performance improvement leadership Appriss, a leading provider of data analytics solutions in safety, health, and retail, today announced the acquisition of the retail loss prevention solutions....

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Ways to Protect Profits—and the Customer Experience—with AI

Consumer spending drives 70 percent of the U. S. economic growth according to a recent article in The Balance, making every fluctuation in retail sales important to a myriad of businesses. Manufacturers, suppliers and logistics companies, as well as all the....

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ORC at All-Time High, and Return Fraud Adds to It

A loss prevention professional’s personal experience in the dramatic increase in ORC activity Organized retail crime (ORC) is at its highest level of all time, and return fraud plays a big part. ORC losses averaged $777,877 per $1 billion in sales in 2018, up....

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How Retailers Moved from Rules to Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad category that includes several different types of analysis or methods of creating a system in which the program makes a decision based on the available information. Self-driving cars are a glamorous example of a system....

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What Is the Optimal Retail Return Rate?

Accepting retail returns began as a marketing technique. The objective, then and now, is to give the consumer the confidence to trade that hard-earned paycheck for something new. A trustworthy retailer, the reasoning goes, stands behind the quality of its....

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