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How Ecommerce Retailers Can Prepare Now for Back-to-School 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The 2022 back-to-school (BTS) season could be the most “normal” since the start of the pandemic, with even more demand than the record-setting BTS 2021 season for clothing, classroom supplies and new technology. Give Back-to-School Shoppers Alternative Payment Options. Streamline Your Checkout Process for Busy Parents and Students.

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Turn Tricky Market Conditions into Revenue-Increasing Opportunities

Retail TouchPoints

The new year is here; however, the market challenges of 2022 didn’t evaporate with the turning of the calendar. Have a simple checkout process. Powerful marketing initiatives and detailed product pages don’t mean anything if the buyer bails because the checkout process is too complicated. Make customer service a priority.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Trading overseas? It can be smooth sailing for SME retailers that do their research

Retail Focus

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. Simplifying the schemes available.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

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W ITH THE WORLD adjusting to Covid a few years later as less of a threat and more a part of everyday life, retailers sought to return to business as usual. n 2022, inflation drove prices and interest rates higher. Starbucks workers organized at many locations in 2022. In 2022, everything reversed. Happy New Year.

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How Qalara is Bringing the ‘Inherently Eco-Friendly’ Products of South Asia to the World

Retail TouchPoints

After getting her MBA at Stanford, she returned to India and spent the next decade in retail, just as ecommerce was taking off in the country. Enter Qalara, which two years on from its launch features more than 1,000 producers selling over 150,000 ready-to-ship and made-to-order products, primarily in the home and lifestyle category.

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Cross-Channel Home Décor Retailing: 5 Take Away Lessons from The Game Changers

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While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans. What is cross-channel retailing?