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8 Key Ecommerce Automation Strategies That Drive Sustainable and Profitable Growth

Retail TouchPoints

in 2019 to 14.9% Add the increasing CPC costs at all sorts of paid advertisement channels and harsher competition to that, and you get a not-so-rosy outlook for the market altogether. On one hand, ecommerce automation saves a ton of time compared to manual ways of executing an operation. Email marketing. Advertising.

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4 Tips for Staying Ahead of Retail Competitors

Retail TouchPoints

As M+A activity continues, convenience retailers are experiencing increased pressure to maintain market share. decrease from 2019 primarily driven by the decrease in single-site operators. despite less than desirable market conditions. Focus on service. Take the tech leap.

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McDonald’s outage underlines the risks of retailers becoming too reliant on tech

Inside Retail

On Friday, system outages plagued McDonald’s locations across some of its biggest global markets, including Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom, forcing many stores to temporarily take only cash or shut down entirely. Yet that same tech can also bring McDonald’s to its knees. It’s not just McDonald’s.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. 26-30, you’re automatically registered to listen to the entire series.

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2021 Technology Predictions for Retail Industry

I Vend

Cloud-based POS systems process and store transaction data online while an on-premise POS system stores data locally on the retailers store server. Cloud POS Market size exceeded USD 1.5 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 27% from 2020 to 2026. So, now is a good time as any to embrace the change.

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Has retail seen its watershed moment?

365 Retail

2020 was a year like no other, and the shockwaves caused by the pandemic have inherently altered consumer-facing operations at their very core. In fact, recent figures showed that footfall in physical stores dropped by a whopping 50% in comparison to the same figures for 2019. Suvish Viswanathan Head of European Marketing, Zoho.

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Imagine being able to see into the future

Inside Retail

Having a better understanding of what your customers want to buy and when could take the guesswork out of sales forecasting, inventory management or staff rostering. In time, we see this index becoming an important economic indicator for Australian consumer markets.”. Covers the vast majority of household spending.