Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Beginning in October, online shoppers of Happy Returns’ merchant partners — including retailers such as Levi’s , Steve Madden , Dressbarn and Olive —can return products in person at Staples retail locations for an immediate refund or exchange, without a box or label. ” PayPal acquired Happy Returns in May.

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Retail Next

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shoppers want their orders the next day, with free shipping whenever possible. The rise of e-commerce has encouraged businesses to rethink how they communicate with consumers and manage their supply chains. Here are some of the most significant retail shipping trends to look for in 2020. Same- or Next-Day Delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

The pandemic put pressure on every retailer’s website, but GNC faced a unique obstacle: the company had rolled out a revamped ecommerce site in January 2020, just in time for social distancing and lockdowns to cause a massive shift toward online ordering. Because we were only 60 days in, there was instability with the site,” said Hamby.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Inflation is driving up shopping prices as we head into the holiday season, a time when many people already feel pressured to go all out on gifts for family and friends,” said Colleen McCreary, consumer financial advocate and Chief People Officer at Credit Karma in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. said Pandya. “

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Home furnishing brand Cloth & Company is working with 3D asset creation and management provider All3D to help even small retailers and designers overcome this challenge through the creation of virtual showrooms using 3D rendering software. Creating the virtual showrooms was a fairly intuitive process.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Paul Gould, Sheridan Group’s general manager, was on site at a cotton farm near Goondiwindi, Queensland, on Wednesday to witness two tonnes of cotton, from textiles and garments, being spread across the soil which is being prepared for the next crop in October. “It And fibres don’t have to be shipped offshore.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Winter elements have historically been unkind to packages, which as a side note is why shipping insurance is a good idea during the winter. Brick-and-mortar sales — which will account for 81.2% of total U.S. this year by two full years.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

For many SME retailers, the thought of scaling their businesses to enter new markets has many perceived barriers, particularly if you’re managing multiple roles within your business from stock procurement to marketing, quality control and customer services. The post Trading overseas?

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 27, 2022

After the pandemic-driven surge in consumer demand that triggered a frenzy of shipping activity and skyrocketing prices, logistics and transportation companies are signaling a fast slowdown. Shipping and wholesale prices are plunging and orders are not being placed as often. . Disruptions in the Container Shipping Industry.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Much of the complexity in supply chains over the last 12 to 18 months was happening farther upstream – so Havaianas experienced some of the same problems as other brands, but at a different point in the process. Be it trade shows, buyers, or subcontractors, it’s all reliable, according to Esser.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The San Francisco-based platform shipped its vast array of discounted products straight from their factories. “[The Flying on a high off the pandemic online shopping trend, Wish debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange in December 2020 providing it with an initial valuation of £11.4bn ($14bn).

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

One key challenge that retailers must address is making sure they know where product is in their business before they promise it to consumers or store managers. At the moment it is hard to accurately determine how much digital sales will drop (if at all), and whether this drop will be more than compensated for by an uptick in in-store sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

market saw over $400B in returns in 2020. This was rendered possible as retailers and brands offered low-cost shipping, unlimited holding periods and easy returns. As ecommerce matures into adulthood, consumers are taking for granted the ability to return and exchange items at will. Overcommunicate with your customers.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Experience: We all experienced the GFC – I was CEO of The Good Guys at the time – and the principles of dealing with a downturn are pretty much the same, except in the current situation, we have the added benefit of a more dynamic channel in e-commerce. You look at all of those controllables very closely. Michael Ford.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As we look back at the past couple of years for clues about what the future holds for supply chains, we see similar issues have become apparent across e-commerce and international logistics. How do I manage increased process complexity? Managing increased process complexity. Let’s examine the solutions for each of these issues.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

We have found ways to be prepared for rapid increases in throughput,” Luke James, the director of supply chain at BoozeBud, told Inside Retail. BoozeBud has reintroduced its contactless delivery service in lockdown-affected areas to support customers following the government’s advice to stay at home. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

Due to the coronavirus, retailers saw a drop in returns abuse in the early part of 2020, driven primarily by the drop in transactions overall. Wardrobing has a negative impact on the merchants — driving up shipping and replacement costs while also impacting what can be returned and sold at full price.

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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. It could be something as simple as a button that doesn’t render properly on a mobile device.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 4, 2021

Claire Webb from Advanced Supply Chain Group looks at why playing a waiting game won’t help retailers beat soaring shipping costs. Many retailers are looking to protect margins against rapidly rising shipping costs. The factors have triggered a long-running period of disruption and caused shipping costs to escalate.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2020

One of the more jaw-dropping retail statistics of the past few months is the more than 400% increase in Walmart shopping app downloads. in the first quarter of 2020. They have plenty of room to offer great discounts, and will be more confident about their shipping guarantees as well.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers stuck at home have had the time to thin out their wardrobes and make room in the garage — along with strong financial incentives to turn their possessions into cash. According to thredUP ’s 2020 Resale Report , “online thrifting is a bright spot in the broader COVID retail slump. That’s where Worthy comes in.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon 2020 is the year when the eCommerce narrative shifted in a major way. Walmart’s US eCommerce sales were up 79% in 2020 and were up 11.0% This service is also beneficial for consumers worried about their goods being stolen after they are dropped off. Take a look at Target. More than 1.7

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Retail Insider

MAY 25, 2021

This week we are looking at Most Promising Newcomer – a category which is perennially popular and where the list of winners over the four years have all gone on to achieve big success. Another technology innovation which allows retailers to centralise management and set up self-checkout systems at speed. 2020 winner Infarm.

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Independent Retailer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Locked down consumers, desperate for a distraction, scrambled for everything from at-home fitness equipment and gaming consoles to gazebos and scatter cushions — and warehouses were cleared of stock as supply chains buckled under the extraordinary pressure. Even returns are up, reaching 17 percent in 2021 from 11 percent in 2020.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mid-year, Walmart announced that its profits were sinking – an attempt at transparency aimed at calming investors and soothing shoppers. etail employees in the earlier days of the pandemic came to work in spite of the dangers, then many were forced to stay home from work for months at a time. Other retailers followed suit.

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Hyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Claron Kinny, SEO Outreach Specialist at Beaconstac , a company that creates and manages QR codes for brands for an immersive offline and online CX. We have all encountered QR codes at some point in our lives, and their popularity has only grown throughout the coronavirus outbreak.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

distraction, scrambled for everything from at-home fitness equipment and games consoles to. The lucky ones managed to balance stock levels reactively, replenishing a steady. Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained – and in 2022, they have dropped. in 2020 (National Retail Federation). business.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

representing the fastest growth in at least a decade and sales so far this year have been strong. But in 2020 Marks & Spencer opened up its website to outside apparel brands. Marks & Spencer started selling food online in September of 2020 through its partnership with Ocado. Bringing in more third party brands.

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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. Will you deny returns at a store level?

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you have a traditional retail business or a pure play eCommerce company then Amazon is a great model not just for how fast goods should be shipped but also for how to think differently about how to monetize your customer base. Amazon launched Amazon Pharmacy in 2020 which offers online ordering and delivery of prescriptions.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The results are part of the world’s first global parcel theft survey which found that close to one in ten people across the world said they had at least one parcel lost or stolen from May 2021 to April 2022, amounting to a staggering 1.009 billion packages1 globally, at a total cost of £33.6 Overall, 7.4 Global parcel loss and theft.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 13, 2022

At the same time competition from the likes of McDonald’s and Starbucks were luring customers away from the iconic Canadian brand. This was reflected in Tim Hortons’ same store sales growth which was slowing, dropping from 2.5% McDonald’s was on to something when it launched its “Famous Orders” promotion in 2020.

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Retail Minded

MAY 14, 2022

He dropped his plans for a corporate job, set up a BigCommerce e-store, took on a silent partner and hired staff. An entire at-home gym kit – complete with power rack, barbell, bench and plates – became their star product, and Bells of Steel held its own as a popular DTC home-gym supplier for the next decade.

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Rangeme

APRIL 8, 2021

Welcome to consumer technology in the age of COVID, where tech gadgets of all kinds became an essential part of the way we lived, worked, learned, entertained and pretty much performed every other activity during 2020. Working and learning learn at home becomes the norm. Following are some key takeaways from these interviews.

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Retail Insider

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

It’s not been about people sitting at home with takeaway cartons. Yes, food delivery was growing at a terrific rate and had become a meaningful part of the sector but it was never going to replace the dining-out experience and become the dominant force that it has during covid-19. It will certainly not replace the old dining-in model.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s It’s a different landscape this year than last year, which was different than the year before,” said Peter McCall, Senior Manager, Retail Consulting and Advanced Analytics at Sensormatic in an interview with RetailTouchPoints. At the end of the day, we view this as a successful season.”.

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