The world of retail has changed pretty dramatically in the first half of 2020. Karen Bomber, Honeywell's Director of Vertical Marketing, helps us sort out the tech solutions and trends benefiting and transforming retailers. How is personalization driving customer experience? Who benefits and struggles with innovations like curbside pickup, BOPIS and self-checkout? Finally, we make some predictions about the future of retail.

*Recorded mid-May 2020*

#VARValue - How should VARs think outside of the box in retail?

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Karen: Voice-Enablement

Dean: Board Games

John: "Autonomous Vehicles are Ready to Disrupt Society..." - Cold Call podcast ep

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Honeywell's Guided Work for Retail

Digital transformation expert Dr. Christine Perales and BlueStar's Healthcare BDM Matt Jordan discuss the acceleration of digital technologies in healthcare during the pandemic and what it means for the future. How is telehealth impacted? What are organizations doing with analytics? How is all of this change impacting the reseller channel?

*We had some audio noise during the early part of the podcast so we had to jump from the guest intro right into our topic, skipping out on a great shoutout to our frontline healthcare workers putting their lives on the line everyday to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. They are true heroes.*

#VARValue - How do VARs approach healthcare customers during a crisis?

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Matt - RFID/RTLS

Dr. Perales - Augmented Intelligence

Dean - "It's Time to Put AI on a Data Diet"

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Elo Medical Grade Touch Monitors

The U.S. is pretty far behind the rest of the world in adopting contactless and mobile payments, but that's likely to change dramatically as retailers and customers look to eliminate touching terminals that hundreds or thousands of others have touched as well. Toby Hutchinson, BlueStar's Payment Sales Manager, joins us to talk about the demand shift. What are the benefits beyond the obvious? How does pay-at-table improve business? What was slowing down the adoption before?

#VARValue - How does BlueStar assist with payments?

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Toby - Cryptocurrency

Dean - Telemedicine

John - Newcomers podcast

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It's the trailer! For our podcast! Who are the hosts? What will we talk about? Who is this for? Come on, we can't spoil it all for you...just listen!

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