Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Higher-income consumers are less impacted by inflation and, while aware of higher food, home and transportation costs, still have the funds to drive luxury sales and luxury growth,” said Marie Driscoll, Managing Director, Luxury and Retail at Coresight Research in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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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. Here’s how he’s doing it.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2023

But Wells knows that to successfully acquire this coveted group of consumers while also retaining its incredibly loyal base of millennial shoppers, the brand can’t simply live in the past. During this time, as a “lean and mean” team, “We didn’t really have social media, we didn’t do any marketing,” Wells explained. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With China set to become the world’s largest luxury market by 2025 , Alibaba is intent on building out the immersive digital experience on its Tmall Luxury Pavilion to capture those consumers. From 2019 to 2021, the Luxury Pavilion has seen its customer base grown by more than 150% and sales have increased nearly 300%.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s a common marketer’s dilemma: how do you expand your brand’s appeal beyond its core customers? Ironically, one of the things that made this such a tall order was that the retailer’s original customer group really, really loves the brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That’s nearly 2X the 2019 GMV total of $38.4 Chinese Consumers Flex Their Wallet Muscles. Some of this luxury market growth could be attributed to coronavirus travel restrictions, which have prevented wealthy Chinese consumers from buying items in person at high-end shops in New York City, Paris, Rome, etc. 1 — generated $74.1

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 8, 2021

over 2019 in spite of ubiquitous public health emergencies in the country. The same Retail Dive survey also notes that 49% of customers like to buy from physical stores because they want to buy now and fast. That said, improving the in-store customer experience can delight your customers and increase sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Now owned by the SPARC Group (a joint venture between brand management firm Authentic Brands Group (ABG) and mall operator Simon Properties ), Forever 21 has spent the last few years refining its image and business model to avoid a repetition of its 2019 bankruptcy. One example Hawkins gives is around inclusivity.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Households with children in elementary and high school are set to spend an average of $789.49 , far exceeding the 2019 record of $696.70. Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. per family, up from $976.78 — another record.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2020

For the luxury category, the pandemic’s impact has been multi-faceted, raising the stakes for brands to have larger conversations around how the “luxury experience” is defined and created for an evolved consumer base. Trend 1: Evolving Consumer Priorities Could Depress Luxury Spending. trillion in current exchange rates.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2021

Even if brands and retailers don’t have a physical store, they have an opportunity to create a seamless customer-focused experience that spans across their branded ecommerce sites, marketplaces and even social channels. We did more sales in November and December 2020 than in all of 2019. They have to see it to buy it.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

Beauty invested heavily in bolstering its digital capabilities even further as more consumers shopped direct via the company’s online properties. While the investment amounts have been significant, they were what allowed the business to monitor, understand and respond to new consumer needs during its most crucial time as a business.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg zwei like priorities from from 2019 f8 so it’s not. You know at least three and maybe four of them are all like cumulatively what I would call Commerce right like you taught you know. [25:10] Social commerce and the the sleeper is. Like stupendous digital growth. [35:49]

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2021

During the pandemic, much like our working lives and our socializing, retail had to migrate solely online — and with this seismic shift, shopper expectations have skyrocketed. A smooth transaction and quick delivery is no longer a perk for customers — it is the baseline expectation. Because experience trumps loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

And it certainly seems to appeal to younger consumers — a recent study from The Influencer Marketing Factory found that 47% of consumers who had made a livestream purchase in the U.S. Victoria’s Secret paused the event in 2019, and it’s been on hiatus since, but officials recently said it will be returning some time this year.

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