Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2020

Shoppers making online purchases in new categories are valuable targets, but the search advertising space was growing increasingly crowded even before the pandemic caused a surge in online shopping, according to Sidecar’s 2020 Benchmarks Report: Google Ads in Retail. However, Google Shopping clicks still rose 11%.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. Holiday shopping insights from the Adobe Digital Economy Index predict that ecommerce will become even more ubiquitous, with U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. In fact, Salesforce has already predicted that the modest growth of the 2021 holiday shopping season could foreshadow this year , with Q1 data showing a 3% YoY decrease in global digital sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Now, industry reports point to the possibility that the traditional Thanksgiving weekend — filled with frenzied shoppers in crowded stores and shopping malls — could be gone for good. As we’re experiencing that second wave of the virus and more closures, if anything, the pendulum will continue to swing in favor of digital and online shopping.”

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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 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., For example, Amazon’s piece of the U.S. search ad market increased to 19% in 2021, up from 13.3%

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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.

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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 TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

For example, consumers shopping for apparel and accessories frequently use in-store and online returns and deem these options to be very important (55%). Due to the coronavirus, retailers saw a drop in returns abuse in the early part of 2020, driven primarily by the drop in transactions overall.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Sarkar tells SmartCompany she was motivated to start the petition after the team received “hundreds” of emails from customers telling them about how their cost of shipping had recently increased. However, the cost would have dropped to $20 if the business had chosen to send the same parcel in an Australia Post plastic satchel.

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2025

In recent years, aesthetic trends like tenniscore and the popularity of paddle sports like pickleball have strongly influenced consumer shopping habits. So we just held on to that belief, and used any money that we had just for shipping to influencers. Now, the popular exercise system Pilates is having a moment in the world of retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2023

Target US is making shopping easier for customers with the option to make product returns right from their cars at no extra cost. According to data from Euromonitor, click-and-collect grew from 6 per cent of overall e-commerce sales in the US in 2019 to 11 per cent in 2022.

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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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2022

With luxurious touches, such as a VIP area with velvet chairs, a personal shopping service, and free domestic shipping for in-store customers, Nicholas calls it “one of the most elegant stores” she has ever seen. In the US, women are more averse to a drop-crotch pant, which in Australia is more common.

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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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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. Likewise, if they are offering other deals like free shipping. Don’t believe us? The post What are Retail Markdowns?

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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 achieved in 2019. Carroll believes they can do it: “‘Discount shopping is here to stay’ to quote Hurley,” she says.

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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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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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Retail Insider

MAY 25, 2021

2019 gave judges an extra difficult time with a total of five companies shortlisted. They ranged from Shopappy which put the local high street shops all on one app to the innovative location mapping company Pointr which digitizes the footprint of a store to help customers navigate. It was close but the judges finally went with Zynstra.

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Retail Prophet

JUNE 16, 2021

The first Skype calls, 127 years later, were prone to freezing and dropping connection. When asked in 2019 if Fortnite was a game or a platform, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney replied, “Fortnite is a game. When it comes to retail, there are those that foresee the creation of shopping venues — stores, malls and more — in the Metaverse.

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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. Customers enjoy doing a mix of online and in-store shopping. share just a few years ago in 2019.

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Retalon

JUNE 11, 2021

And retailers are rushing to offer new fulfillment options, like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS), curbside pickups, cashless checkouts, drop-shipping, mobile shopping and more. In fact, according to Morningstar, sustainable fund flows in the United States continued at a record pace , more than doubling from 2019 to 2020.

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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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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

This powerful platform lets merchants manage, modify, and adjust their ecommerce shops across Google’s various services, such as Google Shopping, Ads, My Business, etc. However, the platform can extract this data and stop showing them in free listings and Shopping ads. How to fix it?

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Indigo 9 Digital

JULY 24, 2023

That’s why you still shop at the mom and pop grocer across the street from your home. Why do you choose to shop there year after year? When Kanye West launched the Yeezy Boost 350 sneaker with Adidas he did so with a limited release drop. In 2019 a Sephora Beauty Insider sweepstakes winner won $1 million.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

Um and shop for apparel. [3:41] You know that didn’t have to close in April at all like they’re up 15% year-over-year largely because they they didn’t have as big a drop last year. [12:02] q1 of 2020 versus q1 of 2019 so very robust growth much bigger than typically what we see.

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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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Retail Prophet

JULY 23, 2021

The first Skype calls, 127 years later, were prone to freezing and dropping connection. When asked in 2019 if Fortnite was a game or a platform, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney replied, “Fortnite is a game. When it comes to retail, there are those that foresee the creation of shopping venues — stores, malls and more — in the Metaverse.

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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

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 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. We appreciate the physical experience of brick-and-mortar and the value of shopping in-store.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

Jason: [4:00] Yeah so we have data from the US Department of Commerce through June and it is a really complicated story so that the top line is a little bit of a worrisome sign so year-to-date January through June of this year retail sales are 1.9 percent from last year so so. [5:15]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Game Revenue it gets its you know ingame credit it’s not like you know people are shopping for real world of goods in the environment so there’s a few things but I certainly think the spirit of your things exactly right that it’s, it’s wildly over-hyped and not. 9:30] Every every single vendor downstairs.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2019, it declined to 6.7% While brick-and-mortar stores continue to command 80% of global sales, a significant portion of retail CEOs are investing heavily in enhancing online shopping experiences. Despite the appeal and growth of ecommerce, retail profitability has been on a decline. and modestly rebounded to 8.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

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%.”. Since COVID, that percentage has dropped, although it is still our largest seller group. That’s where Worthy comes in.

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