Bengaluru leads, through retail-AI companies like Impact Analytics and CommerceIQ, and online-store start-ups like GoKwik, ShopDeck and Fynd, many of them built for India's own online sellers. Hyderabad and Chennai follow through PDI Technologies, a maker of software for fuel stations and convenience stores, and through the checkout makers, like NCR Voyix. Mumbai appears through Cimpress, which prints custom products ordered online.
For an engineer, this is business software for shops, sold to retailers and brands rather than to shoppers. Java engineers lead, .NET engineers are well above their usual weight at the store-software makers, Node engineers are common at the online-store start-ups, and GenAI engineers are above their usual weight in pricing and search.
Retail tech is one of the Industry Verticals of
The Market Segments follow a shop from its online storefront, through its prices and its checkout counter, to the shelf, the genuine product and the printed one.
Building the online store, its checkout and its search is the work of companies like Fynd, GoKwik, ShopDeck, Narvar and Netcore Unbxd.
Deciding what to charge and what to stock comes from retail-AI companies like Impact Analytics, CommerceIQ, Revionics and Wiser Solutions.
The checkout counter and the systems behind it come from companies like PDI Technologies, NCR Voyix, Aptos Retail and MishiPay.
Checking with cameras that the right products are on the shelf is the work of companies like Infilect, Snap2Insight and Retail Insights.
Proving that a product is not a fake is the work of companies like Entrupy, Ennoventure and Crane Authentication.
Custom printed products and clothes designed on screen come from Cimpress, The Customization Group and CLO Virtual Fashion.
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