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How Retail Returns Influence Customer Retention

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is arguably the most convenient purchasing experience. A person can be anywhere at any time, search your online shop, press a button, and magically a shipment arrives at their door. 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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2023: The Year of Customer Retention? Retail Tech Predictions

Retail Assist

More shops have shut down in the last five years (according to the Centre of Retail Research which found 17,145 shops in the UK closed for good in 2022), but stores are still fundamental to the omnichannel experience. As consumer spending is squeezed, acquiring new customers will be costly and more difficult.

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

Retail TouchPoints

ecommerce sales this holiday season are forecasted to reach $273 billion , a 1% year-over-year growth rate, according to the Salesforce Shopping Index , which tracks online data and preferences of 1.5 One popular way to throttle back return rates is to shorten return windows, but during the holidays this can result in a zero-sum game.

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mPOS – bringing back the human touch to in-store shopping

I Vend

As shoppers return to brick and mortar stores in their drovers, they crave the in-store experience. Retailers who want to set themselves apart are integrating more human and personal touchpoints into the shopping experience, increasing engagement, loyalty and sales. iVend Mobile POS Mobile POS in retail engages and delights shoppers.

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The Future of Retail and AI

Retail TouchPoints

In fact, it’s evolved from a futuristic sci-fi concept to a safe option for shoppers to do their daily grocery shopping. As a result, retailers had to move quickly to implement social distancing mandates in stores to make their customers feel as safe as possible while shopping. Which impulse items are people buying at checkout?

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

Retail TouchPoints

Last year, the average family with K-12 students spent $848 on return to school items, while families of college students spent an average of $1,200, according to the National Retail Federation. Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout.