Retailers have invested heavily in digital transformation over the past few years, rolling out self-checkout, mobile payments, omnichannel commerce and cloud-based platforms. However, many organisations still...
Tag: NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific
Self-checkout’s second act: Why Diebold Nixdorf sees AI as retail’s new loss prevention layer
Self-checkout was meant to improve retail economics. Instead, it exposed a new margin leak. Retail shrink hit US$112.1 billion in 2022, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF),...
How AEON is rewiring retail for the age of agentic commerce
For decades, AEON won with a familiar retail formula: more stores, more inventory, more foot traffic. That era is over. In a market defined by real-time data, predictive...
Can AI save the mid-market retailer? The battle for the future of physical stores
Physical retail isn't dying. It's being brutally sorted. As e-commerce commands 42 per cent of global sales in Asia alone, brick-and-mortar stores face a hard ultimatum: get smarter...
NRF 2026 APAC PREVIEW – From prediction to autonomous execution: Enter the era of AI-native retail operations
Ahead of NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific (NRF 2026 APAC), technology leaders are describing a retail future where AI no longer simply recommends actions to humans...