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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“(The) combination would be a significant positive for PayPal’s ongoing monetization initiatives on both sides of its merchant and consumer platforms, especially if Pinterest’s social commerce platform gets integrated with Honey’s AI into PayPal’s destination app,” Wedbush analysts wrote in a note.

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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. Will Luxury’s Biggest Market Rebound?

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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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365 Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2021

GWI, revealed an overwhelming 91% of consumers estimating their online shopping will either stay the same or increase, but the store remains important. This is most notable within grocery, as 35% of UK consumers purchased groceries online in the past month in Q2 2021, compared to 25% in Q1 2020.? . consumer survey?we

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that). In fact, McNamara noted that Mastercard predicts a comeback for Black Friday 2022, with total sales exceeding 2019 results.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

While this figure is down $50 from 2019, given 2020’s overall uncertainty, such a slight decline would represent a significant victory. Adding to the overall shipping volume will be those consumers who would normally have purchased a gift in-store and brought it to the recipient themselves.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 8, 2021

over 2019 in spite of ubiquitous public health emergencies in the country. Organizing a retail event in a physical store can be a good way to pull consumers. 58% of consumers are interested in attending a retail event in the future ( SCORE ). The coronavirus pandemic fueled the growth of e commerce.

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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

APRIL 8, 2022

ShopTalk held it’s first in-person show since 2019, May 27-30th in Las Vegas. If it’s off from from 2019 it’s only slightly like maybe they had 12,000 attendees in 2019 so, 10 felt like a big show they had a 650 exhibitors. The show made the move from the Venetian to the Mandalay Bay.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. E-com returns 10-15% growth rates. 60 billion in total sales and live streaming was likely less than 1% of that 60 billion so I. [40:48]

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Founded in Los Angeles in 2019, the brand started out with the ambitious goal of disrupting the T-shirt category — a saturated, highly commoditized space. A good product is vital, but it will only go so far though — you have to tell your story in a way that’s compelling to consumers, and this is where True Classic has really excelled.

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