Thought Leadership

Appriss Retail – Thought Leadership

Appriss Retail professionals are in the news and at the podium all year long. They even wrote the book on retail analytics (available on Amazon).

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05-24-2018

Artificial Intelligence and eCommerce Return Fraud Prevention

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Presented by Jerry Boersma, Chief Software Architect, at Retail Risk Stockholm on 24 May 2018.

05-10-2018

Experimental Design and Loss Prevention Programs

NEWS COVERAGE

Written by David Speights, Ph.D., Daniel Downs, Ph.D., and Adi Raz, Ph.D. The purpose of many loss prevention programs is to reduce shrink, reduce returns, and lower other negative sales impacting activities. It is important, when designing an…

05-08-2018

The Evolution of Technology is Likely to Keep Retailers and LP on its Path of Automation

NEWS COVERAGE

It can be dizzying to read about the “store of the future” and the changes new technology promises to usher in, so which of the advances will truly alter how LP goes about its mission? Artificial intelligence (AI) is one emerging…

04-30-2018

Internal Investigations Expanding into an Omnichannel World

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Presented by David Speights, PhD, Chief Data Scientist, at the RILA AP Conference on April 30, 2018.

04-26-2018

Artificial Intelligence and eCommerce Return Fraud Prevention

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Presented by Jerry Boersma, Chief Software Architect, at Retail Risk London on 26 April 2018.

03-01-2018

Stop Worrying about the Retail Apocalypse and Focus on the Tsunami of E-commerce Returns

NEWS COVERAGE

The average return rate at physical retail locations is between 3-9%, and is 12-30% for online retailers. Retailers should be worrying less about the supposed retail apocalypse, and start worrying more about the influx of…

02-21-2018

Machine Learning: Bon-Ton and Appriss Retail

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Presented by David Speights, PhD, Chief Data Scientist, at Innovision 2018 on February 21, 2018.

02-20-2018

Predictive Analytics

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Presented by David Speights, PhD, Chief Data Scientist, at the Appriss Retail User Conference on February 20, 2018.

02-05-2018

Are Higher Return Rates a Blessing in Disguise for Retailers?

NEWS COVERAGE

Written by Tom Rittman, vice president of marketing at Appriss Retail. In 2017 retailers project $351 billion in sales will be lost to returns, but there is more to the story. According to the 2017 Consumer Returns in the Retail Industry Report…

01-24-2018

The Rising Cost of Retail Returns Fraud

NEWS COVERAGE

As online shopping transactions increase, and businesses try to make the returns process attractive to consumers, so attempts at retail fraud also increase. New research puts a figure on the cost to retailers and their employees.