SmileDirectClub is trying to patent its entire retail ‘experience’
After review, Modern Retail has retracted this article
In this month’s data sheet, we look at the state of AI and how it’s being applied for retailers. Among experts, such as the VP of emerging technology at Walmart Global Tech, whom Modern Retail interviewed, many noted the way AI allows retailers to gain a better understanding of their customers.
The third and final installment of the Modern Retail Index looks at retailer financial performance and revisits the impacts that e-commerce and fulfillment strategies, the previous two index dimensions, have had on retailer performance YoY.
In this edition of the Modern Retail+ Research Briefing, we look at retailers’ investments in value-added services and technologies like virtual try-on, which are intended to enhance the in-person shopping experience, as well as their plans for future expansion.