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How Retail Returns Influence Customer Retention

Retail TouchPoints

It’s meant to be quite simple for a shopper, but as an ecommerce retailer, you know it’s not that easy — especially if the customer changes their mind and wants to return said magical shipment back to your shop. What happens next, by way of return experience, most certainly impacts whether they will purchase from your business again.

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Planning to sell online in the US? Here are some tactics to ensure success

Inside Retail

Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns , shares with Inside Retail advice on getting started in the US market, some tips on cross-border shipping and logistics – including managing returns in a way that builds customer loyalty – and how to drive repeat business. Begin with baby steps, she advocates.

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Salesforce Predicts Just 1% YoY Online Sales Growth for U.S. Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

To maximize both sales and profitability this holiday season, both retailers and brands will need to focus on customer retention and loyalty: “A lot of switching happened over the past few years, and now consumers are looking for value and quality,” said Garf. Shorter return windows generally mean more sales taking place in December.”

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2023: The Year of Customer Retention? Retail Tech Predictions

Retail Assist

Blending physical and digital to get the basics right will be paramount: from visually appealing displays and signage, tidy shop floors, well-stocked shelves and accurate stock information, efficient queue management of sales, click and collect, returns and service points, to the availability of knowledgeable and empowered retail teams.

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How Merchgirls supercharged business growth by 300% during the pandemic

Inside Retail

During this time, Merchgirls defaulted to manually fulfilling orders, requiring in-house staff to manage their bookings individually via phone and email with carriers. Reduce costs with fulfilment optimisation. Before joining Shippit, we were using a very clunky system,” says Pippa Joseph, Director at Merchgirls. What were the results?

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Three ways to provide customer-centric shipping

Inside Retail

Usually, there’s a shift to more fulfilment options, perhaps adding one or two carriers to the mix – and according to ShipStation ANZ country manager David Boyer, this tends to be where the back of the business starts creaking. This ultimately increases customer retention and loyalty.

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7 Biggest Traps That Ecommerce Platforms Don’t Tell Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

A successful ecommerce website exceeds customer expectations when purchasing online, making the experience trustworthy, seamless and easy overall. The timely delivery and updated messaging on these communication channels help assure a happy returning customer. Unavailable Marketing Tools for Existing Customers .