Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Consumer Expectations are Higher. Nine out of 10 consumers expect proactive updates on the progress of their packages. 91% of consumers expect to be able to view actual real-time updates on their deliveries. of total U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2020

27) dropped considerably in comparison to last year. Overall, the four days from Thanksgiving through Sunday were down -49% compared to 2019. This was a given considering most major retailers and shopping centers decided to stay closed this year to give some time back to their associates. 26) and Black Friday (Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

As more consumers are vaccinated and COVID restrictions begin to ease, the key questions many retailers will be asking are what will consumers want to buy, and how can they make sure they have the right product, in the right place, as consumers start to resume some of their pre-pandemic activities? Know Where Your Product is.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

For many independent retailers in the UK, 2020 hid a lot of the post-Brexit trading cracks as their domestic sales skyrocketed during periods of lockdown when consumers were forced to stay at home and took to shopping more online. Simplifying the schemes available.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumer-friendly and flexible return policies can be the difference between getting a new customer and losing a sale. Furthermore, 56% of consumers report buy online/return in-store (BORIS) options to be very important, while 72% of consumers report the ability to initiate returns online to be very important to their purchasing decision.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Increases in cost of shipping both for raw materials inbound to Brazil plus outbound finished goods to our markets were a big factor for some of 2021 and much of 2022, but things have mostly normalised now,” he added. As shipping rates reduce it is important for businesses to have a dynamic view on their costs,” he elaborated.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

Consumers love shopping online but what they really want is control. Be honest, before the pandemic weren’t you were part of the vast majority of consumers that had never tried curbside pickup? This service is also beneficial for consumers worried about their goods being stolen after they are dropped off.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers stuck at home have had the time to thin out their wardrobes and make room in the garage — along with strong financial incentives to turn their possessions into cash. With consumers seeking bargains from home, online secondhand is set to grow 69% between 2019 and 2021, while the broader retail sector is projected to shrink 15%.”.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

2022 has been a busy year for Tumi, with a host of new product launches, a new global advertising campaign and several collaborations with famous celebrities all hitting the market in a bid to drive consumer demand for high-end luggage as the luxury travel industry starts picking up. The APAC market.

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Retail Insider

MAY 25, 2021

The Great British Exchange offers a route to market for small and artisan British brands through partnerships with the likes of Ocado, John Lewis and Amazon while Street Bees runs focus groups that upend traditional market research procedures in favour of in the moment reaction from consumers. 2020 winner Infarm.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With the cost-of-living crisis at the forefront of shoppers’ minds, it’s no surprise so shoppers have jumped ship from the traditional big four supermarkets to discounters. It ultimately chose not to pass on these cost increases to consumers, but invested instead in keeping prices low” Indeed, Lidl added more than 1.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

compared to 2019 for the six weeks from Nov. drop in 2020. “It’s The other complicating factor is you’ve got consumers who are incredibly aware of the supply chain, inventory and shipping challenges that are out there. Overall sales were up 8.5% year-over-year during the period from Nov. 1 through Dec.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 13, 2021

grocery sales were online in 2019, retailers had been investing heavily in e-commerce capabilities for a few years. The pandemic accelerated this gradual change: Online retailers captured market share from established brick-and-mortar players who had to quickly adapt to new in-store consumer purchase behavior and patterns.

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Wiser

APRIL 7, 2020

According to a 2019 study by retail think tank Coresight Research, retailers in 2018 completely missed out on roughly $300 billion in revenue, or 12 percent of total retail sales, due to markdowns. For example, prices ending in a nine tend to be more attractive to consumers than any other number. Don’t believe us?

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you have a traditional retail business or a pure play eCommerce company then Amazon is a great model not just for how fast goods should be shipped but also for how to think differently about how to monetize your customer base. In those cases consumers would rather have a place where they can pick up their purchases. The 30,000 sq.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s This is especially the case with Jaeger,” said an industry veteran.

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Retalon

JUNE 11, 2021

The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chain sector has been abruptly disrupted by the global pandemic. Consumers expect to seamlessly interact with brands and retailers across multiple channels, such as brick-and-mortar, social media and e-commerce. The Retail Sustainability Problem. billion metric tons a year by 2030.”

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

grocery sales were online in 2019, retailers had been investing heavily in e-commerce capabilities for a few years. The pandemic accelerated this gradual change: Online retailers captured market share from established brick-and-mortar players who had to quickly adapt to new in-store consumer purchase behavior and patterns.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And yet that’s exactly what Amazon is doing with its Ships in Product Packaging (SIPP) program, which, as the name suggests, allows products to ship in their original box or bag without any added Amazon packaging. Then in 2019, the program was expanded to Amazon’s retail vendors. and Canada. and Canada.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This was the question we at Wiser asked ourselves before the start of the Thanksgiving through Christmas holiday shopping season. . The National Retail Federation reported that 165 million people shopped online and in-store between Thanksgiving and Black Friday. That was a day-over-day increase of 3,031 MAP violations! What was it?

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 17, 2022

With online shopping the options for where you can purchase products and services are endless. Menswear direct to consumer brand UNTUCKit realized this when it first tried to figure out how to acquire its first set of customers. But consumers still love the brand and see it as one of the preeminent destinations for toys for children.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

A lot of new marketplaces have sprung up in the last few years, but even among that now dense crowd, Shop Premium Outlets (SPO) stands out. First and foremost, Simon cares about happy, healthy retailers because those are their tenants,” said Neel Grover, CEO of Shop Premium Outlets in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail Minded

MAY 14, 2022

He dropped his plans for a corporate job, set up a BigCommerce e-store, took on a silent partner and hired staff. A mass shift to online shopping, particularly for home fitness equipment, meant Bells of Steel’s team of seven couldn’t keep up with surging demand. As everything changed for us in 2020.”. Khoozani hit a crossroads. “I

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

It wouldn’t have felt any different than e-tail 2019 felt to me so I think people were like frankly pretty excited about getting back together. kind of smaller direct to Consumer Brands and I think those guys are right in the Wheelhouse of those impact so that absolutely was coming up.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It’s really the tale of two years ,” said Matt Kramer, National Sector Leader, Consumer and Retail for KPMG US. We were still in the pandemic, and I don’t think consumers really knew how long it was going to last, and that created uncertainty during the holiday period. Retailers remain bullish despite the headwinds.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Fellow tech behemoth Meta, formerly known as Facebook, made headlines for its stock’s 27% dive after its Q4 earnings were announced — the biggest single day drop in value in the U.S. stock market’s history. Since 2018 in the U.S., All About the Advertising. The fact that Meta’s advertising profits decreased from $11.2

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 2, 2022

With this in mind several Nordstrom stores offer a dizzying number of services including: shoe repair, personal styling, gift wrapping, in-store drop off of online returns from other retailers, onsite alterations, dry cleaning, monograming, and an endless array of beauty services. Personalized shopping recommendations. Fast shipping.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

So since we didn’t get to do that at shop at NRF I thought maybe we could do it on this podcast for our listeners. From 2019 and 2020 even though we were like right in the thick of the pandemic and then in 2021 retail really shot up and the. You know how the year stack up against each other and you know. [8:35]

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

My Gucci Marmont bag from Vestiaire Collective has shipped. Single Mum school drop off duties for my Gen Z daughter before hitting the desk for work. A generation that sees shopping as binary: “I want brand X, therefore I need to shop at store Y”. That’s my dopamine ‘shopper’s high’ for the day. Definitely pre-Covid.

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

Scot: [2:38] Who will we have it’s been a while since we dropped a pod because we both had spring breaks and then you’ve been traveling a bit so it’s great to be back. billion consumers a month, are going to chat. And it seems like consumers are continuing to embrace that.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s not looking super up to Mystic for, for retail so I was super curious to hear not only how Amazon did but what they’re what guidance they gave for Q3 and what they were seeing in terms of consumer spending because we do have this weird paradox. percent from last year so so. [5:15] percent from last year so so. [5:15]

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

in 2019 E-commerce grew 32% to $792B in sales, vs 15% growth in 2019 E-commerce was 14% of all retail sales (vs 11% in 2019) Jason wrote a detailed recap of 2020 in Forbes: 2020: Not Quite Retail Apocalypse, But Great For E-Commerce. percent good, well 2019 retailgeek rude 3.5% versus 3.5% Walmart Earnings. for the year.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

29:13] 20:19 was a very small year so going from 2019 to 2020 you know and then the pandemic app in the middle 2020 and urban was ordering groceries from, from instacart so the growth in 2020 was astronomical like 300% or something like that. Jason: [6:52] The best ticker symbol of all times by the way.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jason: [2:13] Yeah all that’s gone now it’s just a chunk of aluminium but I’m excited to get mine I have a little jealousy because I feel like we both ordered early on launch day and I think yours already shipped is that true.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2023

For the Apple Vision Pro like the answer is no right like and what like unless maybe your Louis Vuitton and you want to get a good press release about being a first mover you know it’s unlikely that there’s going to be 100 million people sitting in their house wearing this thing on their face all day and wanting to shop on it.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Shop owners better than Prime 10 times as many subscribers I.

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