Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Three of the country’s biggest retailers are taking significant steps to get consumers into the holiday shopping groove — and to do so (much) sooner than later. For its part, Walmart plans to hire 150,000 new U.S. A consumer survey conducted in August by YouGov and reported by Yahoo! Beginning Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re a consumer brand in a category with Amazon private label, however, Amazon’s private label presence certainly feels more pronounced. The canned format is not only heavy, which drives up shipping costs, but they also dent easily, driving up customer complaints and replacement costs. How do I Compete?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S. in the next five years and also has its sights set on international expansion, with plans to launch omnichannel operations in key markets in Western Europe and Asia Pacific next year as well as an innovation center in Taiwan.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2021

In the outdoor category, Eddie Bauer is a bit late to the game — REI Co-op has rented its gear for decades and expanded its offerings in 2019; that same year, DTC Coozie Outdoors (which has since been renamed as Arrive Outdoors )launched its own gear rental program.

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Wiser

JANUARY 18, 2019

To learn more about the changes consumers are looking for in the coming year, Wiser has surveyed over 2,400 of our mobile app users about their 2019 shopping preferences. Their responses could help you improve sales and meet more consumer expectations in this digital age. 2019 Shopping Trends. This year is no different.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 18, 2021

NEW YORK – More than 80% of Americans are worried that their packages will arrive late or they’ll be victims of fraud this holiday season, according to a new consumer study released Monday. The challenge for retailers will be to deliver an exceptional experience regardless of where, when and how consumers choose to shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Whole Foods delivered three times as many orders in 2020 as it did in 2019, causing the costs associated with equipment and technology to rise. However, grocery margins are tight, and retailers are limited in how many costs they can pass along to consumers: prices rose 3.7% Orders placed through Amazon Prime will include a $9.95

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

compared to 2019 for the six weeks from Nov. The other complicating factor is you’ve got consumers who are incredibly aware of the supply chain, inventory and shipping challenges that are out there. The consumers’ concern about health and safety is still there, just like it was a year ago,” said McCall.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And yet that’s exactly what Amazon is doing with its Ships in Product Packaging (SIPP) program, which, as the name suggests, allows products to ship in their original box or bag without any added Amazon packaging. Then in 2019, the program was expanded to Amazon’s retail vendors. and Canada. and Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Holiday hires will help retailers leverage their store-based omnichannel fulfillment capacity through buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, home delivery and ship-from-store services. More and more, retailers’ last-mile efforts are tied in with shipping and delivery companies. The rescheduled Prime Day, set for Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Retailers will have to have a definitive plan to communicate order confirmations, delivery updates and delay notifications. Consumer Expectations are Higher. Consumer Expectations are Higher. Consumers Want Options.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. Loyalty Shifts to Value.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the impacts of the most unique holiday in decades are still being felt: retailers should plan for continued shipping delays in the short term, and also continue to refine their omnichannel operations as they prepare for the rest of 2021. 3 shopping day in 2019. 11 through Dec. 24, 2020), or 2.4% 1 through Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2020

of consumers said that they plan to spend about the same or more on holiday gifts compared to 2019 — the highest level recorded by Tinuiti in the past three years. Just because consumers are looking to spend less doesn’t mean they are cutting out spending completely.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

While this figure is down $50 from 2019, given 2020’s overall uncertainty, such a slight decline would represent a significant victory. Adding to the overall shipping volume will be those consumers who would normally have purchased a gift in-store and brought it to the recipient themselves.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In a three-year deal, Coles plans to deploy Palantir’s tools across more than 840 supermarkets to cut costs and “redefine how we think about our workforce”. Food (and the labour needed to grow, pack and ship it) is transformed from a human need to an optimisation problem. A walled garden Second, dependence.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Inflation has tightened margins and supply chain issues have caused havoc with inventory planning. Newly developed freight booking tools have made it easier and more efficient to book containers on large cargo ships, thereby reducing the need for air freight, which is generally seen as producing a larger carbon footprint.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2022

While this is standard practice in the luxury fashion space, it’s not common knowledge among consumers, and many of them were outraged when they found out. Together with Tim Bloore, he launched Azura Fashion Group in 2019 to provide brands with an alternative way of dealing with excess stock. However, Wood saw an opportunity.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that). In fact, McNamara noted that Mastercard predicts a comeback for Black Friday 2022, with total sales exceeding 2019 results.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But new direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands like Sundays are designed to streamline the process and develop multipurpose products that can adapt as consumers’ needs change. Sundays was founded in November 2019 by Barbora Samieian, Noah Morse, Sara Samieian, and Moe Samieian Jr., We love doing this for a few reasons,” Samieian said.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Your clients’ websites must clearly communicate how inventory can be delivered, arrival time frames, and what different shopping and shipping options cost. Undertake the following: Create a sitewide banner that boldly announces purchase-by dates for remote holiday shipping to prevent consumer letdown and brand reputation damage.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The platform is doing triple the volume it did in 2019, its last normal trading year that wasn’t affected by Covid-19 lockdowns. . Next on the list of innovations is a consumer-facing app, which PixelForce will help build. It has always been part of the plan, and now’s the right time,” Kore explained. One-hour delivery .

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Davidson senior software analyst, said that was likely necessary to build trust with consumers. “If Advertising and consumer choices Yet the company has time and again allowed advertising to creep into its recommendations. Amazon says the label today relies primarily on criteria such as reviews, shipping speed and price.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Digital will continue to be the star: Although Black Friday spending was lower than Adobe’s projections, consumers still spent a total of $9 billion online, making it the second-largest online spending day in U.S. Consumers spent $10.8 Shopper Yield data revealed that spend per consumer increased 36.3% over the 2019 holiday.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 1, 2021

BASEL, Switzerland — Bayer will invest €100 million to further enable sustainable innovation, production and consumption of their consumer health products, which include global brands such as Aspirin, Bepanthen, Claritin and Elevit, the company said Wednesday.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2022

Consumer expectations may differ from economic reality. If consumers don’t like a product or service, it won’t make money regardless of its price. Those who understand their customers’ motivations take them on a journey with their products and services, and the value consumers derive from them is part of the story.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. Richard Maicki. Keith Jelinek.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Based in Toronto, Superette was founded in 2019 by entrepreneurs Mimi Lam and Drummond Munro. The company now operates six brick-and-mortar shops in Canada and plans to open locations in the United States next year. The shop is located within a complex made from shipping containers. A checkerboard floor defines the space.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2021

Preet said the pandemic has accelerated digital adoption for consumers and businesses alike. At the height of the pandemic, not only did Toys R Us offer curbside pickup , it partnered with food delivery service DoorDash to offer same-day shipping on items that were available in-store. The company also introduced drone delivery in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Even back in August, major carriers such as FedEx and UPS already were seeing holiday-level volumes, with UPS’ shipping volume up 30% and FedEx’s up 25%. To respond to changing consumer behavior, retailers are not only encouraging consumers to shift how they’re shopping, but when.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

Now Flip is planning an “aggressive” expansion beyond the beauty category in the coming months that is likely to enlarge both its brand portfolio and its user base. “I It was “a normal ecommerce marketplace, not rocket science,” said Agha, but what his marketplace did differently was elicit product reviews from real consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon focused on these and other investments as a justification for its planned increase in Prime membership fees, which will go into effect in late February for new members and late March for current members. billion in Q4 2021, up 98.6% Prime Reasons to Pay More. Since 2018 in the U.S., All About the Advertising. billion in Q4 2020 to $10.3

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Here are five ways retailers can modify their returns practices to make a positive impact on their bottom lines: Direct consumers to physical locations to decrease costs; Automate actions that benefit the retailer. Direct Consumers To Physical Locations. in the retailer’s facilities. in the retailer’s facilities.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Strandbags is gearing up for a big few weeks of online shopping as consumers snap up steeply discounted products during its Click Frenzy and Black Friday sales. Instead of launching two new websites at the end of October as originally planned, he set a new deadline of mid-August. New look and feel.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Amazon’s director of Australian operations, Mindy Espidio-Garcia, said that 2,000 seasonal workers had been on-boarded to help pick, pack and ship customer orders at its sites, over the festive season. He added that as businesses began reopening after lockdowns, and in the months since, many have struggled to find talent to fill positions.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

As more consumers are vaccinated and COVID restrictions begin to ease, the key questions many retailers will be asking are what will consumers want to buy, and how can they make sure they have the right product, in the right place, as consumers start to resume some of their pre-pandemic activities? Know Where Your Product is.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s a need that extends beyond our social behaviors into our purchasing decisions — nearly one-quarter of consumers identify a strong sense of community as the main driver of loyalty to their favorite brands. Consumers don’t make purchasing decisions solely based on practical considerations. Human beings need community.

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