Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

31, 2021. “We’re toy industry sales increased 11% in Q3 2021 from 2020, according to the NPD Group , driven by price increases, a continuation of pandemic lifestyles and fewer promotions. Adobe reports that out-of-stock messages are up 172% compared to January 2020 and up 360% from January 2019. said Pandya. “

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

In fact, Salesforce has already predicted that the modest growth of the 2021 holiday shopping season could foreshadow this year , with Q1 data showing a 3% YoY decrease in global digital sales. and shoppers placed 12% fewer orders worldwide compared to the same period in 2021. Shoppers will Buy Even Earlier to Avoid Price Hikes.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Amazon placed an order for 100,000 electric vans from Rivian in August 2020, and the first part of the fleet will begin making deliveries in 15 cities over the course of 2021, starting with Los Angeles. By 2020, ML tools changed the packaging mix significantly, reducing the use of boxes from 69% to 42% of items.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

Country manager for the company’s Australia/New Zealand territory David Boyer said that the changing habits towards increased consumer e-commerce spending – which developed over the course of the pandemic – have remained relatively undisturbed in 2021.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the latest data from Australia Post, more than four in five households shopped online in early 2021 – an all-time high that’s been rising steadily since the global pandemic first sent people to online channels in record numbers. In the US, for example, eMarketer reports that D2C sales now account for 33% of Nike’s revenue. .

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2022

Since 2020, the global logistics industry has seemingly gone off the rails. Both 2020 and 2021 saw record-breaking levels of consumer demand brought about by the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Unfortunately, this could continue to affect shipping through this year’s holiday season.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Online fraud cost digital commerce merchants $27 billion in 2021 , so it’s no surprise that retailers have redoubled their focus on eliminating these threats. As just one example, Chewy was a pandemic winner, but the company spent more than half a billion dollars marketing to consumers in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ecommerce holiday sales are projected to reach a whopping $210 billion to $218 billion this season, up 11% to 15% from the 2020 holiday season. With port delays, extended delivery times and increased consumer demand, what can retailers do to salvage the 2021 holiday season? Can I do this for Holiday Season 2021? Absolutely!

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before the NotPetya attack rampaged through Europe in 2017, affecting companies including FedEx and shipping giant Maersk, few people would have thought a vulnerability in a piece of accounting software could create such devastation. Those trends are set to continue in 2021.

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Store Growers

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Last Updated on December 22, 2020. Those early conversations about stock levels or shipping back in August are now far behind us, and the numbers have been put on the board. Hopefully we can continue that trend in 2021, but do some of the things we’ve been missing out of as well. Top Google Ads Articles 2020.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 19, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions increased nearly 30 percent during the 2021 holiday period. The data showed that BNPL transactions peaked more than 43 percent in October as shoppers began their 2021 holiday shopping early. Within October 2021, a peak at 99 percent was recorded compared to the same period in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Brick-and-mortar sales — which will account for 81.2% Regardless, these communications will be crucial to whether holiday customers return throughout 2021. of total U.S. holiday retail — are expected to decline 4.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It would be easy to assume the retail industry coming out of 2020 was in dire straits. On the other hand, some businesses, such as home improvement stores, actually saw sales increase throughout the pandemic and began course-correcting their retail footprints to account for more online traffic.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But seller uptake was slow — at the end of 2020, Google Shopping had approximately 8,000 sellers, according to Marketplace Pulse. In July 2020 Google eliminated commissions and fees , making it free for merchants to not only list their products on Google but also to highlight deals and discounts. digital ad revenue (up from 7.8%

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Retailers seeking guidance as they look ahead to an uncertain Q4 will find plenty of solid, practical advice in the 2020 Retail Strategy and Planning series of webinars, now available on-demand. Brands are trying to do the same amount of work, or more work, with less,” said Jessica Amenta, Account Director of Reality Interactive.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

According to thredUP ’s 2020 Resale Report , “online thrifting is a bright spot in the broader COVID retail slump. With consumers seeking bargains from home, online secondhand is set to grow 69% between 2019 and 2021, while the broader retail sector is projected to shrink 15%.”. That’s where Worthy comes in.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Increases in cost of shipping both for raw materials inbound to Brazil plus outbound finished goods to our markets were a big factor for some of 2021 and much of 2022, but things have mostly normalised now,” he added. As shipping rates reduce it is important for businesses to have a dynamic view on their costs,” he elaborated.

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VMS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For starters, the price of shipping containers has skyrocketed in 2021, and costs are expected to continue rising. Salesforce is predicting that companies will spend even more on ocean freight in the second half of the year than they did for the second half of 2020. Likewise, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Since it debuted in 2020, Bookshop.org (which is run as a nonprofit) has raised more than $28 million on behalf of independent book sellers in the U.S., This is what enables the site to offer competitive shipping speeds and pricing. Bookshop.org profit split 2020-2021.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Through an Instagram account called ‘Outta The Gloss’, the group detailed their grievances and urged a boycott. The company had laid off 200 retail staff after permanently shuttering all of Glossier’s bricks-and-mortar stores in 2020 due to the pandemic. Unlike on Instagram, its Twitter follower count has been up and down since 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Concurrently, the summer of 2020 brought the highest number of new business applications in the past 15 years, and this trend has continued, with Americans filing a record 1.4 million applications to start new businesses through September 2021. As more transactions happen digitally (i.e.

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Rangeme

JULY 12, 2021

How will the pandemic affect US ecommerce sales in 2021? May 17, 2021. 5 Top 100 Retailers 2020 List. 5 Top 100 Retailers 2020 List. How a New VAT Rule From BREXIT Now Impacts Every US Seller Shipping to UK Customers. January 4, 2021. private labels account for a whopping 47.5% June 8, 2021 Yet, U.S.

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A1 Retail

JULY 2, 2021

The global ecommerce market is expected to continue to grow in 2021, illustrating that there is a strong a market for cross-border ecommerce. As the COVID-19 pandemic brought much of the economy to a halt in early 2020, cross-border ecommerce proved to be a bright spot compared to the growing uncertainty in other industries.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Then I went ahead and predicted three ways retail would fragment throughout 2021 anyway. Last year, I interviewed Jonathan Reeves from Eagle Eye for my Shopology show and he predicted that online would account for half of retail sales by 2030. Then, in April 2020, as restrictions started, they jumped to 11.1

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

PY: As a pure play online business focused on at-home comfort, we were well-equipped to adjust to the changes we faced in 2020. We’ve taken that and expanded our social responsibility efforts, sustainability targets and metrics, and really honed in on accountability on numerous fronts. In the middle of 2020, we raised $1.25

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Retailers pulled off a successful 2021 holiday season despite the challenges posed by the omicron variant and ongoing supply chain issues. 24, 2021, according to data from Mastercard. 21, 2021, through Jan. drop in 2020. 21, 2021, through Jan. drop in 2020. “It’s Overall sales were up 8.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2021

Powell and CEO Charlie Cole, both of whom started at the company in early 2020, are part of a “new team charged with giving the brand its groove back, and that requires tech investment,” Powell said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. We needed to account for those things in the changes we’re doing,” said Powell.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This year’s report, “ 2021 Deloitte Holiday Retail Survey ,” examines what retailers can expect from shoppers as they tackle their holiday shopping. A merry and bright holiday season, for some 2021 holiday spending intentions are approaching 2019 levels, signaling a return to our next normal.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

However, traditional spreadsheet analytics cannot account for store-by-store variations in the promotion’s effectiveness or secondary effects such as demand cannibalization. According to Digital Commerce 360 , American consumer online spending in 2020 increased 44% to $861 billion.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Major retailers survived 2020 by transforming how they got their products into customers’ hands. Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. Lower shipping costs.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Perhaps with M&S now motoring, Norman might jump ship to see if he can perform a similar feat at its rival? Brittain, who stepped down from Whitbread in January this year, also sat on the board of M&S as a non-executive between 2013 and 2020. She also helped to rapidly grow and subsequently sell Costa Coffee for £3.9bn in 2018.

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I Love Fashion

AUGUST 19, 2021

Many businesses made the shift from just offline to a combination of online & physical spheres in 2020-21 but struggle to provide quality social media customer service. survey said “ great customer service ” is a motivation to recommend a brand online (Newberry, 2021). Here are some facts to blow your mind (Newberry, 2021)-.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Episode 286 is a hot take on Amazon Q4 2021 earnings. Amazon released their Q4 (and full year) earnings for 2021 on Thursday February 3rd. in 2021, which was just above the industry average of 17.9% In 2021 total revenue was $31.16B growing at 32% Year over Year. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With only two months left of 2021, retailers should already be looking ahead to the new year for the newest trends, technology, marketing tactics, products, and solutions for improving their business. According to McKinsey , by March 2020, 265 million people were using livestream shopping.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Yet, Shein was the most downloaded fashion shopping app on Apple’s app store in Australia at the end of March 2021. billion (US$10 billion) in 2020. Shipments to US shoppers typically take 10 to 15 days, as products are first shipped from China to a warehouse in Los Angeles, before being sent out via the regular post.

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