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Profit from Drytac’s pattern coating science

Drytac

Taking this a step further, Drytac, which offers products across all the main adhesive technologies, has developed a pattern coating process to apply adhesive in dots, lines or various differing shapes to offer maximum performance to customers. Another advantage of pattern coating is the reduced consumption of adhesive products.

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How conversational commerce is redefining the way customers interact with brands

Inside Retail

This isnt about completely overhauling the shopping experience, it’s about injecting AI “in-the-flow” to optimise and streamline it. For example, generative AI can be used to summarise thousands of product reviews into concise snippets, sparing consumers the need to sift through endless opinions.

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PXP Launches the Next-Generation Technology Platform PXP Unity

Retail Focus

Amongst its stand-out features is the platforms ability to transform raw real-time transaction data into actionable insights, empowering merchants with intuitive dashboards that turn complex data into clear strategic direction, including important metrics such as transaction success rates, refusal patterns, payment methods, and scheme performance.

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Research uncovers the habits of consumers using BNPL. Hint: They spend more

Inside Retail

In Australia, birthplace of Afterpay, Zip, Openpay, and Latitude, its estimated that (allowing for flow-on effects) BNPL services contributed $14.3 A growing influence on spending The economic impact of BNPL is substantial in the countries that have pioneered its adoption. billion to gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2021 financial year.

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How AI could solve product returns and other supply chain challenges

Inside Retail

Geopolitical tensions, global trade challenges and increasingly frequent natural disasters are all affecting the manufacture and flow of goods, from securing raw materials to delivering finished products. AI can evaluate return histories to detect suspicious behaviours and patterns. This affects costs as well as product availability.

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Why consumer spending in one retail category is outpacing all others

Inside Retail

The newly released Cost of Living Insights from CommBank iQ explores how economic uncertainty is flowing to people’s wallets. However, behind the headline numbers sits a range of spending patterns. An analysis of de-identified transactions from approximately 7 million Australians reveals that while discretionary spending is up 1.3%

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Reinvest and innovate: Key takeaways following Fenton & Fenton collapse

Inside Retail

This collapse follows the demise of Australian furniture brand Brosa late last year – which cited declining sales and cash flow pressures – as well as heightened challenges faced by small-to-medium sized retailers that are struggling to cope with rising costs, and a slowdown in foot traffic and consumer activity.

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