Point of Sale: Retail & Travel Weekly Highlights

Here’s a weekly roundup of inter­est­ing links & news about retail, online retail, and travel & hos­pi­tal­ity, com­piled by the indus­try experts & thought lead­ers on our Adobe Con­sult­ing Retail & Travel team:

• The Retail Orga­ni­za­tion of the Future [FutureLab]
• The State of E-Commerce (info­graphic & stats) [Mashable]
• The State of E-Commerce Check­out Design 2012 [Smash­ing Magazine]
• Wal-Mart Test­ing Mobile Check­out (says it can cut $12 million/year for each sec­ond cut from check­out) [WSJ]
• Sephora Gets a Dig­i­tal Makeover to Attract Con­nected Cus­tomers [Brian Solis]
• One Macy’s (Digial + Store + Sin­gle Cus­tomer View at Macy’s) [Hub Magazine]
• Neiman Mar­cus, Visa Team On Fash­ion­able Mobile Ser­vice [Medi­a­Post Online Media Daily]
• Updates Around Same-Day Deliv­ery [Busi­ness Insider]
• Death to Paid Search? Google PLAs Dou­ble Con­ver­sions for Less [Media Post Online Media Daily]
• When Will Your Smart­phone Really Replace Your Wal­let? (A decade?) [Wired]
• How Mobile Tech is Chang­ing Travel (Info­graphic & Stats) [Mashable]
• Air­lines Face Sep­tem­ber Stall [WSJ]
• Books, Book­stores, Cat­a­logs (link to dis­cus­sion on ‘Future of Book & Book­store’) [MineThatData]

Michael Hal­brook is a man­ager in Adobe Con­sult­ing focused on dig­i­tal strat­egy, ana­lyt­ics, and opti­miza­tion in the retail & travel indus­try. His team serves retail & travel clients with the Adobe Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing Suite, help­ing retail­ers with online & offline mea­sure­ment of retail & travel acqui­si­tion, opti­miza­tion, and con­ver­sion, and devel­op­ing & exe­cut­ing on new dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing strate­gies. He tweets at @Halbrook.