Cloud-based software firm Tulip Retail, which provides a mobile app suite for store associates in retail settings, has raised $40 million in its latest funding round. The round was led by American venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. During its four years in business, Toronto-based Tulip...
With smart devices in the hand of nearly every consumer, it’s hard to debate the fact that store associates may not know as much as those they’re serving. Research from Tulip Retail shows a majority of consumers believe they have an upper hand on retail knowledge...
Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you. That’s the tune that a lot of consumers with smart devices in hand may be metaphorically singing to store associates in today’s brick-and-mortar retail locations. With access to any information...
As the rise of eCommerce marches onward, physical retailers increasingly rely on store transformation initiatives to reinvent brick-and-mortar stores to maintain majority market share and boost consumer interest. One such retail reinvention shifts the role of store associates from a sales position to one of...
May 02, 2018
Consumers are increasingly turning to their mobile devices for their eCommerce purchases as a percentage of overall sales are set to skyrocket. In fact, sales through mobile eCommerce channels are poised to make up half of all online sales by the year 2020 — worth nearly $250 billion annually – and the bulk of those transactions […]
