Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It The result is a much lower barrier of entry for merchants looking to capitalize on Google’s massive reach.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

With record-setting online sales looming on the horizon for the holiday season, retailers also are bracing for an onslaught of online returns. Those retailers selling primarily or exclusively online are expecting a corresponding hike in the volume of returns, but not much difference in the return rates they have become accustomed to.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2020

While we shouldn’t expect online sales to remain at their peak levels when the safety risks of in-person shopping dissipate, merchants cannot hope to weather the storm and return to business as usual. As we move forward, these capabilities are critical for all retailers: Accept Contactless Payments. Traditionally, U.S.

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A1 Retail

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Fintech unicorn and payment processor, Mollie, reveals trends for small and medium-sized merchants during Black Friday, Cyber Week and Cyber Monday. The analysis spans tens of thousands of merchants across Europe, primarily from Germany, U.K., Payment methods and merchant performance.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

There was a time, about five or so years ago, when voice commerce was going to be the next big thing. But one too many frustrating interactions with Siri and news items about smart speakers spying on users were enough to dampen the fervor. Companies also are getting smarter about how they use the voice platform.

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Small Biz Trends

OCTOBER 27, 2022

When bad actors take advantage of return policies, return fraud is the result. It’s the act of defrauding businesses using its return process and it’s a problem in the retail industry. If you think fraudulent returns aren’t a problem, think again. billion worth of merchandise was affected in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Square plans to announce additional details about the card in 2023. It will include the Holiday 2022 Meta Foresight Interactive Report , offering insights from the 2019, 2020 and 2021 holiday seasons across 33 key markets as well as tips on turning new holiday customers into returning shoppers after the season ends.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Barclaycard Payments’ data shows quarterly SME transactions have risen by 38.1 per cent (compared to 2019) as Christmas shopping gets underway. Business owners are starting to feel more optimistic about their own performance, with almost three in 10 (29 per cent) expecting their most successful festive period since 2015.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

We speak with Yoox Net-a-Porter’s APAC general manager Natalie Lee about the resilience of luxury spending amidst an economic downturn, the importance of localisation, personalisation and incredible customer service, and how the company is using technology to improve the way it operates. How do you plan to leverage them?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The online payments provider hopes to successfully negotiate and announce a deal by the time it reports quarterly earnings on Nov. The payments behemoth was among the big winners of the Covid-19 pandemic, as more people used its services to shop online and pay bills to avoid stepping out. 8, the source added.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion on 2019. For perspective, that’s about the size of the economies of Brazil and Italy, and much larger than the economies of Canada and Russia. For perspective, that’s about the size of the economies of Brazil and Italy, and much larger than the economies of Canada and Russia. billion on 2019.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Barclaycard Payments’ data shows quarterly SME transactions have risen by 38.1 per cent (compared to 2019) as Christmas shopping gets underway. Business owners are starting to feel more optimistic about their own performance, with almost three in 10 (29 per cent) expecting their most successful festive period since 2015.

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

Last Updated on July 3, 2023 Ecommerce merchants are no strangers to using Google Merchant Center. 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. First, log in to Google Merchant Center.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Economists are predicting a flat or modest increase in holiday sales compared to 2019, but they expect a big increase in online holiday shopping. vs. 2019, when sales amounted to $145 billion. Merchants love it because it bolsters sales, avoids shipping and helps move inventory out of stores.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

per cent points in the five years to October 2020, reaching about 9.8 per cent in 2019 — to sit almost 10 points ahead of the overall market. Assuming Australia continues to manage the virus successfully, we will continue to see an exuberant return to physical retail spaces. Digital payment. It reached 22.8

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VMS

AUGUST 11, 2021

jewelry sales were up sharply in July compared to the same month in 2020 as well as in 2019, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse. percent versus July 2019. grew for the 11 th consecutive month in July, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse , which measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment.

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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. parents, revealed that 66% of K-12 parents and 62% of college-age parents are anxious about sending their kids back to school. This number far surpasses last year’s spending total of $80.7

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

SME optimism is improving, as concern about the impact of the pandemic falls to its lowest point since February 2020. The quarterly SME Barometer combines billions of merchant transactions, processed by Barclaycard Payments, with research data to provide an in-depth look at the UK SME economy. A positive picture.

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365 Retail

MAY 7, 2021

In fact, recent figures showed that footfall in physical stores dropped by a whopping 50% in comparison to the same figures for 2019. Rather morbidly, it’s entirely possible that many high-street branches and physical stores will close before the appetite for physical shopping returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But breaking sales records isn’t what Alibaba wants to talk about. shared insights and experiences about participating in the world’s largest retail event, including: The focused consumer attention during 11.11 sales, which featured 500,000 products with official “Green Product Certification” from more than 2,000 merchants.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since 2019, livestreaming has been one of the most important ways for a store to engage its followers to make a sale in China. It wasn’t until 2019, that Taobao livestream saw the inevitable way that products had to change to become more appealing to audiences. But livestreaming was not always used for selling items. from the viewers.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Majestic Wine , the specialist wine merchant, has inaugurated two new outlets within the span of a week. We are proud to be accelerating that pipeline of new store openings ahead of Christmas and are excited about becoming a part of even more communities across the UK in the coming months.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2022

After initially launching our cashback program, CommBank Rewards, which helped retailers drive sales while returning almost $13 million in savings to our customers, since launching in December 2019. More than 1000 young Australians were involved in the design process to ensure Cheddar delivers to their needs and shopping preferences.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 17, 2022

There are about two million small to medium sized businesses that sell on Amazon and the average third party seller makes $200,000 per year selling on Amazon. Nike is an example of a high-profile retailer that decided to stop selling on Amazon in 2019. These sellers had record sales that were up 60% over 2019. The good news.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Shopping during the BFCM period is on the rise and at par with pre-pandemic levels: 80% of consumers plan to shop during the five-day holiday period, up from 71% in 2021 and compared to 79% in 2019. This comes as one-third (33%) of BFCM shoppers are concerned about making upcoming payments, up from 26% in 2021.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

3:26] And of particular note, and I know we’ll talk about this more, they’ve seen a significant uptick in use of Buy Now, Pay Later services, and they’ve seen deeper discounting than we saw last year. billion consumers are shaping shopping trends.

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Hunton Andrews Kurth

AUGUST 12, 2021

Amazon has stopped selling some of these products, notified consumers who purchased the products about the potential hazards, and offered refunds via Amazon gift cards. The CPSC views these steps as insufficient and aims to force Amazon to issue recalls and destroy the returned products. 2052(a)(8). 2052(a)(8). Total Recalls: 22.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Retail businesses collect more data than ever before, and from every aspect of the supply chain, including: Logistics data (vendor compliance, lead times, etc.). POS data (sales, returns, etc.). Not only that, the historical data does not tell you anything about the demand you missed due to pricing, cannibalization, or stock outs.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

Scot: [0:54] Nope good guess and today was a real doozy so we have a lot to talk about and of course it wouldn’t be a Jason and Scot show without. Jason: [6:55] Exactly exactly and I would note we don’t talk about it a ton on the show but then there’s two Chinese companies that are. And especially holiday.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

billion, fueled by our growing merchant partner network, which now stands at around 49,000. We are excited about this chapter in bol.com’s evolution and continue to progress on our plans to get bol.com ready for a sub-IPO during the second half of 2022. billion, with net consumer online sales growing 27% to €5.5 billion euros.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Rising consumer spending combined with higher disposable income in the last quarters of 2019, was expected to stimulate industry revenue growth, as more consumers require sporting goods for their health and fitness. First what do we know about the sporting goods industry and who are the main players? Industry Definition and Categories.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

The year of returns – “happy returns” – a startup raises $100M+ in space. for year of returns). 5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). Shopify wilts a bit – new competition comes out with different angles (marketcap stays static) – No.

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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. well tonight we are excited to talk about shoptalk Jason you went for the show I was not able to make it this year unfortunately but you went and you are going to report on all the happenings and I’m excited to hear how it went. Scot Wingo.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

Jason: [3:13] Yeah yeah I had two immediate thoughts number one clearly it’s an advantage to get on the Jason and Scot show before doing your raised because it seems like there’s about a four x multiple you get just for being on the show. Jason: [5:37] Yeah I don’t know you know people have been asking me about this in the.

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Store Growers

JULY 13, 2020

If you’re starting out, or you’re short on time and knowledge about Google Ads, Smart Shopping isn’t a bad pick to get going and get a feel for what’s possible. Product feed uploaded and approved: you need a feed in Google Merchant Center and products need to be approved. The Only Two Situations I Use Smart Shopping In.

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

Jason: [4:30] Exactly I was thinking about like maybe bring a mask I’ve already you know I have audio collection of a lot of my favorite Scott Galloway predictions meaning which didn’t come true. I’m going to spend an hour just making fun of Scott Galloway with her. Scot: [4:43] Macy’s Woodberry Amazon and apparel.

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Retail Geek

JULY 30, 2021

1:59] And ordinarily folks might say why do we care about a Bed Bath & Beyond store that doesn’t sound very interesting and I get it but. Um And you know this is a super well done themed store we’ve talked a little bit about it but you know it’s the same.

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