Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2021

The wide range is due to uncertainty regarding how consumers will shop post-pandemic — potentially impacting the performance of Prime Day 2021, which has returned to a Q2 date. Prime Day Returns to July, but Amazon Still Welcomes Experimentation. compared to Prime Day 2019, reaching $10.4 Total sales rose 45.2%

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

ChaseDesign just finished our annual study of 1,000 shoppers to see what the latest insights are around online grocery shopping, specifically focused on which delivery methods are winning out pre, during and now post-COVID times. In 2011, less than 1% of grocery shopping was done online. COVID obviously changed that, almost overnight.

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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. According to proprietary research conducted by Forter, 23% of shoppers will abandon their carts if returns options are poor. Returns Abuse And Customer Expectations. This is amplified in some industries.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

King has been on a 12-month rolling contract with Myer since 2018 and has decided to retire at the end of this financial year to return home to Florida to be with his family. The customer-first plan was introduced back in 2019 and remains the centrepiece of the company’s strategy to deliver for all its interested parties.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sundays was founded in November 2019 by Barbora Samieian, Noah Morse, Sara Samieian, and Moe Samieian Jr., But it was the stress Barbora Samieian felt while shopping for furniture after the birth of her first child that made her think there was an opportunity to completely rethink furniture design and merchandising.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Retail rode strong into Q2 2021 as shoppers returned to stores even as digital sales remained elevated. Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. More than 95% of Target’s Q2 sales were fulfilled from stores, the result of years of developing and perfecting the fulfillment process. compared to Q2 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

Delivering on Promise and Your Fulfillment Options. respondents indicated that ground shipping is their preferred method for replenishing wardrobe staples, and 43% indicated that curbside pickup is their preferred fulfillment method for replenishing or replacing household staples. Profitably Managing Returns.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2024

According to a recent Euromonitor report, while consumer food-service value nears pre-pandemic levels in 2024, dining-in at restaurants will not return to pre-pandemic level until 2028 in Asia Pacific. Apac’s food-service spending surpassed pre-Covid levels in 2024, as revenues grew 12 per cent to more than US$1.2 trillion in 2023.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2023

The deal may eventually include Shein shop-in-shops at some of Forever 21’s 540 brick-and-mortar stores, which are heavily concentrated in malls, as well as offering consumers the ability to return Shein items at Forever 21 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2021

The grocery giant — home to 20+ food and drug banners including Safeway , Vons and Acme — has launched a new app, loyalty program and membership-based grocery delivery service, all designed to make grocery shopping “more enjoyable and convenient” (and help the company stand out from the growing crowd of providers in the grocery space). . “We

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Shopping center operators are facing a new call to action: Evolve and elevate your experiences or lose your customers forever. in the 2022 fiscal year compared to 2019, thanks to the changing mix of retailers in the comparable pool as well as retailer expansions that occurred during the year. But the work is not done.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The streaming platform, which launched in late 2019, feeds behavioural data into AI algorithms to serve personalised viewing suggestions to its 118 million global paid subscribers. Hyper-personalisation is a great way to fulfil this demand, especially when brand loyalty is undergoing a dramatic transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

In fact, 58% said school would be a bigger deal this year and 56% said they are more excited about shopping for back-to-school items this year. With this data in mind, and the large majority of kids going back to in-person learning, I don’t think [the Delta variant] will impact back-to-school shopping.” and how long will it last?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

billion compared to roughly $3 billion in 2019, according to data from IWSR. At Vroom, unit sales increased 82% YoY in fiscal year 2020 , and revenue was up $916 million from 2019. There’s a lot of COVID effect in those numbers, but the trajectory is clear — consumers want to shop online, for everything.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

Online shopping has existed for 40 years or so now, depending on what starting point you use, and while it’s undergone many changes, the basic paradigm remains. His platform Flip — described as a “shopping social network” — already has more than 1,000 brands participating, including E.l.f. Here’s how he’s doing it.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

shopping festival indicate the strength of China’s rebound from the impact of COVID-19. That’s nearly 2X the 2019 GMV total of $38.4 Non-Chinese Brands Took Advantage of Shopping Festival. Like Weinswig, Halliwell cautioned that selling in China requires much more than simply opening up a virtual Tmall shop. “I

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

Chris White, head of delivery at international fulfilment services provider, fulfilmentcrowd , explains how SME retailers can overcome these challenges and capitalise on the opportunity of scaling into new markets, both across the EU and further afield. . Simplifying the schemes available. Moving your stock to an EU distribution centre .

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

I have met dozens of computer vision startups but could not find a technology that can fit our industry and was strong enough to fulfill our goals. billion in 2019. Voyage81 was founded in 2019 by CEO Niv Price, former head of R&D at Unit 81 in the Israeli Defense Forces; CTO Dr. Boaz Arad, who has a Ph.D.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among its multiple impacts, COVID-19 accelerated an elongation of the holiday shopping season that was already underway. 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).

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Inside Retail

MARCH 23, 2022

Many of them are making investments into the additional distribution space to cater for last-mile fulfilment as well as to house extra inventory to protect against shortages. Without the chains or the shops on the ground to be able to help with fulfilment and returns, it all has to come back to warehouses and warehouse hubs.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

Despite this good news, many executives at shopping malls and “destination centers” wonder just how much of this returning traffic will find its way to their venues. “ Retail TouchPoints spoke with executives from shopping destinations across the U.S. Shopping Destinations Set Sights on an ‘Experiential’ Tenant Mix.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Even with the current uncertainty related to COVID-19, the C2B model has some advantages over traditional retail, especially in providing a seamless integration between online and retail shopping. Today’s consumers are digital experts and gravitate toward online platforms where they can shop 24/7. An Emerging Retail Trend.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2021

In November and December, Adobe Analytics reported that online shopping grew 32.2% from 2019, totaling $188.2 Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, items that consumers shopped for reflected the stay-at-home sentiment, such as household essentials, electronics and entertainment and health, beauty and wellness products.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While news of potential COVID vaccines has many retailers anticipating a return to in-store shopping in 2021, this year’s Q3 financial results show that consumers’ hunger for ecommerce shows no sign of being sated. of sales fulfilled by its stores — a sign that the retailer is ready to tackle the holiday season.

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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. The pandemic’s impact on shopping habits isn’t abating: 66% of respondents will prefer home delivery over other fulfillment methods, according to a survey by Oracle. year-over-year.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A one-of-a-kind year has led to a one-of-a-kind Prime Day, as economic and political pressures created a new slew of challenges for the shopping holiday. of Prime members expected to spend more this year than in 2019, while only 8%. This year it completely shifted to starting up holiday shopping and beating the rush.

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365 Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

for the seven weeks to December 24, against the same period in 2019. growth in Very retail sales compared with Christmas 2019. He told the PA news agency: “It was really positive to see the return of growth for fashion. The company, which runs Very.co.uk and Littlewoods, said sales grew by 21.9% Christmas 2021 results are in!

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Indigo 9 Digital

JANUARY 11, 2023

The irony of online shopping is that the most economical model for a retailer is when customers are not purely online shopping at all. If getting the order to you is expensive what about returns? This process of ordering and returning goods is very expensive. million on “refunds, returns, and discounts”.

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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

MAY 21, 2021

However, while curbside was a major brand differentiator for Target and its peers over the past year, its power will wane as more and more shoppers return to in-store shopping. I think the issue is whether we’ll be able to fulfill that demand to the same degree as in 2019.”. There will be demand.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 31, 2022

billion up 39% from 2020 but revenues were just shy of Nordstrom’s 2019 pre-pandemic revenues of $15.1 During the first quarter of 2020 Target’s digital sales increased by a whopping 141% and it fulfilled close to 80% of those online orders from its stores. So how strong is Nordstrom? Last year it generated revenues of $14.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

For 79% of that group, the loosening of government restrictions is not a sufficient incentive for them to regularly return to stores, restaurants or other out-of-home activities. Getting consumers to feel comfortable with returning to stores “is largely within retailers’ hands,” Salesforce said. In its May 14-15 poll of U.S.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

Consumers love shopping online but what they really want is control. Having a wide range of fulfillment options, including delivery to home, collection from store – and by using stores for fulfillment – allowed Walmart to ramp up capacity in a way that many other players struggled to do. Approximately a quarter or $20.4

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

Missguided’s former warehouse operator, GXO, has not guaranteed the fulfilment of any orders amid negotiations either. Among the expenses were the two physical stores opened at Westfield Stratford City, London, and Bluewater Shopping Centre near Kent. million in 2019. Self-inflicted wounds.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

As a result, the industry unlocked and fulfilled five years of online retail growth in just six months through a patchwork of band-aids and gut-led experiments – effectively realising 2025 sales levels in 2020. per cent in 2019 — to sit almost 10 points ahead of the overall market. It reached 22.8 More room to Zoom.

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