Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Amazon’s latest spat with Visa shows big retailers, armed with a growing array of payment options, are gaining the upper hand in their power struggle with card providers, but it’s not a crisis for the payment company. “If a merchant wants to offer credit in a different way, we’re agnostic.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Following in the footsteps of Instagram, which launched its shop in 2020, TikTok has entered the competitive space with its new shop function, enabling merchants, brands and creators to showcase and sell products directly to over 1 billion users through in-feed videos, LIVEs, and the ‘product showcase’ tab. Transport and logistics .

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion USD ) in Q3 2020, a period that included the annual Singles’ Day online shopping bonanza, generating a year-over-year increase of 37%. Global Shopping Festival by stimulating consumption, satisfying consumer demands and supporting the business recovery of merchants in response to the impact of the pandemic. billion ( $74.1

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, alcohol was one of the fastest-growing categories in e-Commerce channels, according to Nielsen research : from the first week of March to June 27, 2020, online sales grew 309% over the same period year. In 2020, Vivino’s sales have shown massive year-over-year growth, growing 2X from March to June.

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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. TikTok reports that two-thirds of its users were inspired to shop even when they weren’t actually planning to do so. And for consumers: Discovery of new products and services.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

So when ecommerce sales jumped 32% percent year-over-year as they did in Q4 2020, returns also went through the roof. I think the lessons are around planning ahead , having sufficient capacity in your system to flex up and reducing your dependency on any one channel.”. Retailers across the U.S. Ecommerce clearly isn’t going anywhere.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020, the company brought in former Walmart Ecommerce COO Jamie Iannone as CEO, and Iannone promptly set out to reimagine Ebay’s role in the now crowded marketplace ecosystem. Services and Experiences Designed for Enthusiasts The first step in drawing these buyers in and keeping them coming back is building trust in the buying experience.

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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. More than four in 10 plan to hire additional staff over the next 12 months in a sign of positivity for the future.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, more than any year since the advent of online and mobile commerce, consumers lost a sense of control. Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon). on average.

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Retail Minded

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Keeping this in mind, as we look ahead into 2023, we are given the choice to embrace challenge and seek opportunity or approach the year without a constructive, proactive plan. Not only is automation going to speed us customer service experiences, but it’s going to create an “omni-connected” workplace for agents. Retaining workers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2021

Tomorrow’s malls may still service some small percentage of these buyers, but will need to target today’s shoppers —people driven by emotion who are eager to be surprised and happily search out unexpected experiences, products and services. Increasingly, malls will need to address consumer convenience need states.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2023

It’s not hyperbole to say that the artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) terrain is changing on a daily basis; just last week, Alibaba ’s plans to debut a ChatGPT-like chatbot were revealed. Soon, we journalists are going to need AI-powered solutions just to keep up with all the information about AI. A: No, at least not fully.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers and industry experts have been forecasting a 2020 holiday season dominated by ecommerce almost since the world started taking COVID-19 seriously, and results from “Cyber Weekend,” or BFCM (Black Friday/Cyber Monday), effectively made their case. Mobile continued strong on Cyber Monday, accounting for 37% of that day’s sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

And because those wholesale relationships were so central to Natori’s business, losing or seeing a significant pullback from even one account would have been a big blow. Every time someone asks me about my biggest business challenges right now, I just smile, because I feel like nothing will ever be worse than the challenges from 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2023

It’s not hyperbole to say that the artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) terrain is changing on a daily basis; just last week, Alibaba ’s plans to debut a ChatGPT-like chatbot were revealed. Soon, we journalists are going to need AI-powered solutions just to keep up with all the information about AI. A: No, at least not fully.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

RTP: How do you account for the fact that you were able to break into a category already full of long-held, beloved family traditions? We launched the name in 2020. We had this giant rollout plan, and then COVID hit, so that took a backseat, but we moved forward with the name change anyway. I cherish what I learned at QVC.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

1:24] And just to set it up the you know in my world of start-up land it has been very hard to get an IPO done so there’s been a couple post coated and like late 2020. Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Both of these stars have been seen modelling Fashion Nova clothing on their own Instagram accounts and Cardi B also has her own Fashion Nova clothing line. Inditex, Zara’s parent company planned to close up to 1,200 stores by the end of 2022 and open 450 new stores. But stores will continue to play an important role in Zara’s strategy.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 20, 2023

where he led the operations teams and later served as a merchant. In 2008, these departments accounted for 12 to 16 feet of devoted shelf space. Fresh produce is now offered in more than 3,000 Dollar General stores, with plans to expand to more than 10,000 total stores in the coming years, with a meaningful number in food deserts.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

Soon, merchants everywhere began to experience what many thought could only happen in third-world economies and banana republics – panic buying, empty shelves and bottomless backlogs to fill them. But in the process also opened global consumer markets to risks that would make the cotton collapse of 1861 look like a picnic.

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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.). Unifying Big Data across Forecasting, Planning, and Operations. Merchants and inventory managers attended more co-planning meetings. The result?

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What can be done to optimize shelf conditions such as availability, planogram compliance, display compliance, and more? We have answers in this webinar, held on September 25th, 2020, and hosted by the Category Management Association. Retail in 2020. Tom Vieira is the director of product in-store at Wiser Solutions.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Inside Retail : When I spoke with Gerry Harvey a few months into the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, he described it as one of the best things for his business because of how much people were spending on their homes. Our view and the view of our merchants is that 2023 is probably when we will see it stabilise. It was drastic.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

9:39] In the same way it made sense for Amazon to rent a WS capacity to others and you know provide some of these other services it’s a way to monetize their delivery Network and their fulfillment Network so I think it’s super smart. Jason: [8:43] Yeah I generally agree I’m not confident that it’s I’m sure.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Episode 249 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Monday, December 7th, 2020. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 249 being recorded on Monday December 7th 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

last year) Burlington – Comps up 20% (shutdown e-commerce Q1 2020) Gap – Comps up 28% (up 13% vs 2YA). Scot: [5:29] Yeah and finally had a cat that he maybe he does who knows maybe has a cat that he sits there and pets while he’s planning his next moose. Dollar General – US Comps down 4.6%; (up 17.1%

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space. Matt: [18:53] No no that I left before any of those kind of process integration initiatives occurred.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

your Share account so when your chair count goes up it puts a natural pressure downward pressure on your EPS number. [5:44] what happens is in many brokerage accounts you can’t buy a fractional shares so. Scot: [5:08] Yes so one of the things it’s been a busy week for Amazon so.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Jason: [0:48] I know this was a bad week to plan a vacation in the canal. Jason: [2:07] Yeah and the plan B is not ideal it’s a so long way around. That that sort of visual video interface and you know it’s it’s on on a HIPAA compliant version of AWS which they have a lot of HIPAA compliance services on AWS now.

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