Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Coles fell two spots to number five, which allowed German supermarket giant Aldi to take third place as Woolworths was dethroned from the number one spot it had held since 2020. Food for thought Whether supermarkets or suppliers are to be blamed for higher food prices at the checkout depends on whom you ask.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The company expects the 10 busiest days to account for just 34.2% Brick-and-mortar retailers looking to maximize foot traffic need to continue adjusting their operations to account for the pandemic. consumers are currently shopping and will shop for the 2020 holiday season, retailers should remain optimistic,” said Petersen.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

trillion in 2020, while U.S. Additionally, total order count was up almost 10.45% from holiday 2020 levels, according to data from Klaviyo. As a result, Cyber Week 2021 accounted for 23% of total ecommerce spend, down slightly from 24% in 2020. trillion , up from $1.1 18 and Dec. 18-31 window.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2024

After MrConsumer was inadvertently charged tax at checkout, he details a series of confusing conversations with Walgreens’s staff about how sales tax works and his eligibility for a refund. Back in 2020, Walgreens was sued in class action for improperly taxing protective face masks in Pennsylvania.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

As far back as May 2020, an Ipsos study indicated that two-thirds of Americans were buying directly on, or discovering products through, social media. Social commerce covers end-to-end shopping journeys, from discovery, research and evaluation to checkout, all on the social media app. More than just ‘buy now’ buttons.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A 2020 survey found that 50% of mobile traffic on Amazon was considered to be the new version of “window shopping.” Don’t ignore checkout. In store, after a shopper chooses their products, they head to checkout and wait in line to pay, grazing over the add-on purchases displayed at the cashier.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 Year-on-year sales growth on the retail side, which is now mostly accounted for by Lotus’s, is not available, since the base period was prior to the Lotus’s acquisition. billion baht ($9.4 billion) in sales through the first half of the year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

While many holiday shoppers favor online experiences to avoid waiting in endless checkout lines or battling over parking spaces, many now face competition from a new challenger: automated bad bots. Price scraping, account takeover and gift card abuse are just some of the ways bad bots impact the retail industry. What Makes a Bot ‘Bad’?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

2020 has been a year marked by a series of uncertainties. decrease in offline sales in 2020 3. This is something leading retailers do well that small to midsize brands must take into account. Many business leaders are understandably somewhat disoriented by the rapid changes we have all experienced this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2021

The division closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 billion in annual operating profits, accounting for approximately 63% of the entire company’s operating profits for the year. He uses the Amazon Go stores as an example: “When the Amazon Go business unit began working with AWS, their business challenge was to eliminate checkout lines.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Amazon expects net sales in the quarter ended June 30, 2020, to be between US$110 billion and US$116 billion, an increase of between 24 per cent and 30 per cent year on year. Morningstar has predicted that Amazon will account for a quarter of online sales in Australia by 2030. They are now the default’.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Others need to scale up contactless Click & Collect operations to account for multiple pick-up bays and timeframes. Buy online, pick-up in-store fraud rose by 55 per cent in the first half of 2020, according to the Forter Fraud Attack Index. Protect your business and customers by issuing a unique one-time PIN code to customers.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

billion at today’s exchange rates, accounting for close to a quarter of the revenue from the company’s department store business. per cent in 2020. This was one of the factors leading to the introduction of dedicated tax-free checkouts.). In 2019, it brought in 233.5 billion yen, or about $2.5 The Chinese are still missing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2021

In 2020, data security specialist Varonis calculated that close to 10 billion data records had been lost or stolen since 2013 — a third more records than there are people. Characteristic patterns are assigned to customers, merchants, user accounts and devices, and the respective profiles are constantly updated.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2021

Research by The Ascent showed that among people who have used a BNPL service, 45% first did so in 2019, 21% first did so in 2020, and only 7% had used a BNPL service prior to 2015. Merchants too should weigh the benefits against the drawbacks of offering installment options at checkout.

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A1 Retail

JULY 2, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic brought much of the economy to a halt in early 2020, cross-border ecommerce proved to be a bright spot compared to the growing uncertainty in other industries. In fact, the second quarter of 2020 saw double-digit growth as the initial logistics challenges were resolved.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

in the UK and Ireland in 2020 to £12.3 Whilst other UK-based supermarkets give more regular updates on current trading, Aldi is not obliged to and is instead publishing last year’s results as it files its accounts with Companies House. A new checkout-free store is also planned in Greenwich, London, it said. million to 17.8

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

Consumers over 65 were the fastest growing group of online shoppers in the US in 2020, according to NPD Group’s Checkout Tracking, and they accounted for 30 per cent of goods purchased online in the UK last year compared to 20 per cent the year before, The Economist reported.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2020

But Q3 2020 will look much different. This will ensure a seamless experience from first click to checkout. A key resource to keep handy is Sidecar’s 2020 Benchmarks Report: Google Ads in Retail. Mike Baber is Director, Strategic Accounts at Sidecar. E-Commerce will take an unprecedented bite out of the sales pie.

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s the latest opening as part of Toolstation’s accelerated expansion programme, which in a challenging 2020 saw the multi-channel business open at least one new branch every week and sees the retailer continue that pace this year. The app will mean Trade Credit customers can fully manage their accounts on the go. 1,800 products.

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Wiser

APRIL 3, 2023

You choose the product you want, put in your shipping and payment information, checkout, and then go straight back to scrolling through your feed. Taking this information into account, many brands have decided to meet their shoppers where they’re at and take their businesses directly to the shopper. This is social commerce.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Online spending has soared globally throughout the pandemic, e-commerce now accounts for 16.3 Quantium and ABS figures show that in 2020, Australians spent $50.5 This enables Me&u to pre-populate the order, removing the tedium of choice and speeding up the checkout process for the customer. billion online, up from $32.1

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365 Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

The pandemic has permanently altered consumer buying habits, with global online sales accounting for 18% of all retail sales in 2020, up from 13.6% With 50% of potential sales lost because visitors can’t find what they are looking for , retailers can’t afford to create a gap between experience and checkout. the previous year.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2021

Aaron Fidler, head of retail and commerce account management at Mastercard Australia, says the company’s latest Recovery Insights research shows that “roughly 20-30 per cent of the global Covid-related shift to digital is expected to be permanent. Brands must strive to be genuine, authentic, accountable and trustworthy.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 21, 2022

Amazon also accelerated Whole Foods’ physical expansion, opening 16 stores across the country during 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic and adding another six last year. that will feature Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology that enables customers to avoid the checkout line. are slated to open this month.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After customers have finished shopping they can walk out of an Amazon Go store without having to ever stand in a line or go through a checkout. When customers leave the store their Amazon account is automatically charged. Amazon opened its first Amazon Fresh supermarket in Los Angeles in 2020. Amazon now has 30 Amazon Go stores.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2008, these departments accounted for 12 to 16 feet of devoted shelf space. Vasos also led Dollar General’s self-checkout rollout, which he points out should be available in more than 13,000 stores by February 2023. He also quickly accelerated DG Pickup at the onset of COVID-19 from 30 stores to nearly chain-wide today.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

Here are the top five ways retail will evolve in 2020: Loyalty Breaks With Tradition. Leading retailers recognize the need to build dynamic relationships that extend far beyond traditional loyalty programs heading into 2020. But what was a timely quip decades ago is now more relevant than ever.

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I Vend

MAY 18, 2021

Learn More The clothing resale market alone is estimated to be worth US$30-40bn, with annual growth of 15-20% per annum from 2020-2024 , according to the Boston Consulting Group. iPad POS systems enable better customer service, with checkout anywhere in store, and low touch options such as curbside pickup for online purchases.

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Rangeme

MAY 19, 2022

Morrisons latest to launch AI-powered checkout-free store system. Digital ads have emerged as an unstoppable B2B growth engine for Amazon, representing more than $31 billion of its 2021 revenue, up 32 percent over 2020. Together, these two cohorts account for 52 percent of the U.S. August 5, 2020. August 5, 2020.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

However, traditional spreadsheet analytics cannot account for store-by-store variations in the promotion’s effectiveness or secondary effects such as demand cannibalization. According to Digital Commerce 360 , American consumer online spending in 2020 increased 44% to $861 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

retailers sold in November 2020 increased 25% year-over-year , with an additional increase of 106.1% year-over-year in December 2020. . According to Digital Commerce 360 , in 2020 consumers spent $861.12 Gaining access to consumer accounts has increased, allowing fraudsters to purchase gifts on their dollar.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Although the world is well into its post-2020 economic recovery, there is evidence to suggest that temporary changes in consumer behavior, supply chain disruptions, and government stimulus across the globe has propped up many sectors artificially (including retail) — either creating or prolonging bubbles. Consumer behaviour.

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Store Growers

APRIL 1, 2022

Having your Google Merchant Center account suspended can be a death sentence for your business. Most of the time, they are also clueless as to why their account got suspended. In this guide, we’ll take a look at the possible reasons why your Google Merchant Center account was suspended and look at some ways to fix this.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Demand for digital payment options will continue to expand The latest figures from the Reserve Bank of Australia show that by mid-last year, the use of digital wallets in Australia had reached 35 per cent of card payments, up from 10 per cent in early 2020.

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Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 11, 2022

billion in 2020. There are several Instagram accounts dedicated to Trader Joe’s fans that are run by people that aren’t even employed by the brand who discover and share products with millions of followers at no cost to Trader Joe’s. A fun and friendly atmosphere. Trader Joe’s feels like your neighborhood’s grocery store.

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