{"id":1260328,"date":"2013-09-17T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/retail-pro-global-conference-to-address-changing-retail-landscape\/"},"modified":"2013-09-26T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T15:19:17","slug":"retail-pro-global-conference-to-address-changing-retail-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/retail-pro-global-conference-to-address-changing-retail-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail Pro Global Conference to address changing retail landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certain things about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/Solutions\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"dnautolink\">retail industry<\/a> may never change, such as the strength of a brand. Building a quality product and establishing a sterling reputation among customers are just as important now as they ever were. However, omnichannel&nbsp;commerce, the advent of mobile devices and improvements in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/Solutions\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"dnautolink\">point of sale<\/a> technology have created a new shopping environment, and merchants will be able to learn more about these topics at the Retail Pro Global Conference held in Barcelona next month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To address the different needs of and questions about the industry, Retail Pro will hold&nbsp;its Business Partner Summit on October 18 &#8211; 20, and the Customer Summit on October 20 &#8211; 22. Presenters will discuss the future of the market and how merchants can improve the customer experience while integrating new trends into their ongoing operations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Customers will be able to hear from Keith Conner, Director of Product Management, and Ket Venethongkham, Director of Retail Pro University, during their &quot;Ways to Grow Your Business Using Mobile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/Solutions\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"dnautolink\">POS<\/a>&quot; presentation. The speakers will address how technology&nbsp;is changing the retail environment and what merchants can do to stay current with these trends as well as shopper expectations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Registration information for the Retail Pro Global Conference can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/Community\/2013Conference\/Registration.php\">https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/Community\/2013Conference\/Registration.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain things about the retail industry may never change, such as the strength of a brand. Building a quality product and establishing a sterling reputation among customers are just as important now as they ever were. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/retail-pro-global-conference-to-address-changing-retail-landscape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1260329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail-pro-in-the-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}