Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 was a critical year for the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space. At the same time, they’ve had to navigate consumers’ increased desire to buy from brands that align with their social and environmental beliefs. Back in January 2021, it meant speculative trading card investments. Why do you think this is?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2021

and UK shoppers between December 2020 and January 2021 — saw a whopping 83% of respondents indicate that convenience was more important to them in online shopping than it was five years ago. In fact, 78% of those surveyed said they value ease and convenience more now than they did prior to the pandemic. Source: Linnworks.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The need to provide an efficient omni-experience was evident in 2021.?Those Retailers are grappling to evaluate with the right network across a blend of large warehouses, smaller localised fulfilment centres and deliveries from stores. Consumers are increasingly online and on social media, which is leading to a boom in social commerce.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

However, over the 12-month period from November 2021 to November 2022, online purchases were down 3.8 per cent due to lockdown-driven spending in 2021. All this shows e-commerce has become critical to any retailer’s sales strategy and there are significant benefits for brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This exponential growth, highlighted by President Harley Finkelstein at the company’s Q3 2021 earnings call in late October, came as a surprise to just about no one given ecommerce’s recent unprecedented growth. RTP: Where do you see social commerce fitting into the mix for local retailers in the coming years?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The return to offices and social events is inspiring consumers to level up their wardrobes and focus more on apparel and footwear. this holiday season compared to 2021, and McNamara cited consumer demand for more deals and promotions as a likely reason. YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The payoff is that because these consumers are diligent about doing their research, they return fewer items, “which is so much more sustainable.”. Extended Festival Designed to Mitigate Fulfillment Crunch. Spreading out some of the load makes it easier on [Alibaba’s] fulfillment and logistics partners,” said Halliwell.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The agenda for the virtual 2021 Retail Innovation Conference , taking place Nov. Brick-and-mortar locations are still essential parts of the shopper journey, but they need to be reconfigured to accommodate both shopper discovery and functions like flexible store-based fulfillment. 17 from 1:20 to 2:10 p.m. Join the discussion on Nov.

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Retail Minded

JANUARY 21, 2022

Recognized and respected as the largest conference and expo in the world supporting the retail industry, I was both excited and proud to return to the NRF show floors for the first time since the global pandemic. Enhancing these fulfillment challenges includes leveraging robotics, and there was no shortage of these to explore at NRF.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2021

Executives from a who’s who of retailers, social networks and even advocacy groups shared their visions of retail’s future at NRF Converge 2021 , held June 21-25. Whilst shoppers have been able to engage with virtual experiences for the past year, shifts online have raised the bar around convenience as shoppers return back to stores.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. E-com returns 10-15% growth rates. 6:08] Startup automation things that could bring automated picking to store fulfillment or small fulfillment centers or.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. more than 20 21 largely because 2021.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2022

First move to making fulfillment by Amazon available to non Amazon sellers or at least sellers off of the Amazon platform and so it’s kind of interesting. Checked out on Tick Tock in huge quantities yet but it’s super interesting the Amazons kind of approach to social commerce, is get content creators and influencers and sellers.

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