Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

that delivers pretty much any item to a consumer with science fiction-style immediacy, retailers remain bound by 21 st -century delivery methods. But just because we’re not yet stepping into transporters to beam us where we want to go doesn’t mean technology has no role to play in cutting fulfillment costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To better serve a growing legion of West Coast customers, Tapestry , parent company of brands including Coach and Kate Spade , opened its 788,000-square-foot North Las Vegas Fulfillment Center in November. Tapestry already operates a fulfillment center serving the East Coast located in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The landscape of commerce and delivering customer experience changed dramatically over the past year, as millions of shoppers found health, safety, social distance and remote work taking center stage in their daily lives. More than one-third of consumers now shop online each week, up from 28% pre-pandemic. Voice commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Today’s retail environment is challenging — whether it is price pressure from discounters, market disruption from online players, increased price transparency for shoppers or changing macroeconomics. When executed well, these experiences enable businesses to differentiate themselves and gain a sustainable market advantage.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) brands are constantly stuck between creating indelible customer experiences and turning profits on those relationships. DTC brands are overwhelmed with data — transactional, customer and marketing — that enable them to better understand and personalize experiences for their customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Understanding consumer behaviors will be key to building (or rebuilding) a successful retail business in a post-pandemic world. However, retail marketers often lack the data they need to develop and execute more empathetic messaging. This data deficit makes it difficult for marketing to keep pace with a rapidly changing environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2023

The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data highlights a significant deceleration in inflation, now standing at half of last year’s peak. This moderating trend in inflation is an encouraging development, but it is not without its caveats, particularly within the dynamic and complex terrain of the retail and consumer goods industries.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Nicholas believes that to make store fulfillment a truly profitable initiative, retailers need to find new ways for their tech, operations and design teams to collaborate.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2023

The idea of transforming malls into “mixed use” gathering spots has become popular, but an aerial view of these complexes provides an interesting perspective on another potential evolutionary path for the mall: as a fulfillment center. “ All those back-of-house loading docks are just perfect for fulfillment.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Thanks to rapid innovations in supply chain management, AI technology and digital marketing, e-commerce is increasingly playing an integral role in the lives of everyday Aussies. Customer retention With both consumers and retailers feeling the pinch of increasing costs, customer retention will be a key theme of 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

That assumption seems to be confirmed by research published by Cotton Incorporated via their Consumer Response Surveys. The Second Wave research results from April 27, 2020 showed that 73% of respondents expect this pandemic experience to change the way they shop in the future. BOPIS Fulfillment Options.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Brands and retailers are feeling mounting pressure — from consumers, shareholders and even their boards — to be more inclusive. Because of efforts to address this mismatch of product and real-world sizing, Coresight Research estimates that the value of the extended-size market for women will grow to $32.3 billion in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2022

In a world of social media, email marketing, memberships, subscriptions, retailer partnerships and everything else digital technology has given us, it’s ironically easy to lose sight of the customer. Your customers are much more than their digital identifiers, such as email addresses, phone numbers, or social media handles.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The humble sneaker has long been a staple item in closets everywhere for consumers of all ages. The consistent appeal of sneakers and sportswear has grown in recent times with customers, particularly from the Gen Z demographic , continuing to favor them as everyday items for leisure and now work.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

In this year’s global edition of the Omnichannel Leadership Report from NewStore – a retail survey that audits around 275 brands across several key international markets – Australia has emerged as a frontrunner in providing consumers with outstanding omnichannel experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

In today’s market landscape, ethical, political and environmental considerations increasingly sway consumer purchasing decisions, particularly when it comes to packaging. From exaggerated health claims to misleading descriptions of ingredients, deceptive labeling erodes consumer trust and undermines brand credibility.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. Not surprisingly, many have found the data points to residential enclaves in and around cities where consumers live.

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Retail Focus

MAY 30, 2024

Mid-market and enterprise retailers’ uptake of carrier management and post-purchase solutions increased in the first quarter of 2024 as retailers look to unify customer journeys, according to the latest research from Scurri , the next-generation delivery management platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The holiday season has always been prime time for retailers to roll out new marketing campaigns, events and experiences that draw people to their stores — and keep them there. Despite these reservations, 47% of consumers plan to shop in-store this holiday season, an 8% increase from 2020.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

This year, while consumers are still struggling to adapt to higher prices for staple goods and services, they are still spending on discretionary items creating a retail market where brands compete fiercely for their share of the consumer’s paycheque. Free delivery was nominated by 40 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

In today’s Now Economy , customers are gravitating increasingly toward the “I see it, I want it, I’ve got it” retail model — while at the same time they’re more intent than ever on making purchases that support their personal values. Retailers are scrambling to adapt to this exponentially expanded consumer dial tone.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The new year is here; however, the market challenges of 2022 didn’t evaporate with the turning of the calendar. The current economic environment has driven consumers to be more budget conscious and price sensitive as inflation pushes up the cost of living and products’ prices. Have a simple checkout process.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A study by Inside Retail found that the ANZ e-commerce market experienced five years worth of growth in just six months from March 2020. Some of the biggest hurdles they faced were developing strategies to keep up with customer demand and order fulfilment. All Eyes on Peak Season 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2020

During his keynote, Witcher emphasized that retailers will need to refocus on omnichannel fundamentals in order to prepare for the future — a future that includes cutting-edge services and experiences such as conversational commerce , IoT commerce and shoppable video. Today’s consumers are agnostic to channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With COVID-19 case counts declining and vaccination efforts underway, eager consumers and retailers are both looking hopefully toward a future return to normal. The pandemic has forever altered consumer behavior, and this year in particular consumers find themselves in a kind of limbo — hope is on the horizon, but “normal” isn’t here yet.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

by storm, rising to the top of the app charts and garnering millions of fans, until consumers began to realize the cost of those ultra-low prices — long delivery times and often poor quality products. In cross-border ecommerce there’s a huge TAM [total addressable market] — it’s growing at double-digits ,” said Liu.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

After years of degrading consumer trust in platforms, brands and the influencers they hire, Agha’s premise is that his TikTok-esque social commerce platform — which features product reviews only from real, authenticated shoppers — will power the next wave of ecommerce discovery and online community.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Leading market research firm Euromonitor International has just unveiled its 2023 rankings for the Top 10 fastest growing and biggest retailers in Asia Pacific, with Indonesia’s GoTo stealing the spotlight. Post-pandemic, consumers are returning to physical stores that offer immersive experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? In general, when you’re trying to speed up delivery and still provide a wide assortment of products, that puts the burden largely on inventory, and getting that inventory positioned close to the end consumer.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Understanding the latest trends is paramount for businesses aiming to thrive in an increasingly competitive market. The story so far According to Yum, the adoption of AI technology, especially generative AI, is growing rapidly for consumers to easily create content, from text to videos, with little technical know-how needed.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s energizing to think about customer experience transformation and what that could possibly mean for a business. In the retail industry, many organizations are at a pivotal moment of forging a path forward to define the future-state customer experience where the physical and digital converge. We all like to think big.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The stress of the pandemic sparked a surge in the wine, beer and spirits market: a 2020 RAND Corporation study found that alcohol consumption among adults 30 and older increased by 14%. By the end of 2024, IWSR predicts that the NA spirit, wine and beer market will grow another 31%. Sales of these products reached $3.1

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Rather than chasing the obvious trends everyone else is pursuing, we dig deep into the human psyche to uncover the unmet consumer needs yet to be served by brands. Like the fulfillment of seeing a great movie, going to an engaging place can give us a sense of escapism and therapeutic benefits that help us face the world with renewed energy.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2024

When retailers invest correctly, logistics presents the opportunity for not only hard cost savings but long-term value creation as organizations find innovative ways to deliver products into the hands of consumers. There have been a few major shifts that have fundamentally changed the nature of warehousing and fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Ken Hughes has become a fixture on the retail speaker circuit thanks to his in-depth research on consumer behaviors. He is a consumer behavioralist, after all. Here he offers insight into his work as a consumer behavioralist, how the pandemic has shaped his work and why he has decided to dig into this overlooked “digital divide.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2024

At Starshipit , we surveyed leading retailers from around the globe for our latest report, Evolving Expectations 2024 , to bring you the freshest insights on what truly drives customer satisfaction in shipping and fulfilment. This is a crucial phase of the customer journey, with 46.5 In fact, 33.7 What’s the rush?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The non-alcoholic beverage (NA) market is projected to reach $176.7 Big name alcoholic beverage players such as Anheuser-Busch and Diageo will be fighting to get a piece of this pie by bringing new products to market, especially with U.S. a more suburban area where consumers live and shop. “We billion in 2024.

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