Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

For example, most consumers today are concerned about carbon emissions, climate change and sustainability. Increasingly, consumers are choosing to do business with retailers and brands with values that align with theirs. In 2020, 62% of consumers had made that kind of switch.

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Retail Next

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shoppers want their orders the next day, with free shipping whenever possible. The rise of e-commerce has encouraged businesses to rethink how they communicate with consumers and manage their supply chains. The rise of e-commerce has encouraged businesses to rethink how they communicate with consumers and manage their supply chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

Preliminary holiday 2020 results have proven unsurprising so far: analysts expect modest year-over-year growth fueled by a massive increase in ecommerce activity across a longer-than-usual season. 24, 2020), or 2.4% However, the larger story of holiday 2020 is still being written. 11 through Dec. during the traditional Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

Fulfillment was a key driver during the ecommerce-driven final quarter of 2020. Amazon in particular invested more than $60 billion in shipping alone in 2020, helping it maintain blazing fast delivery times, but O’Shea believes its lack of a significant physical store footprint will cause it to lag behind the competition to some degree.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

consumer now pays for four different video streaming subscriptions. Blue Apron, Freshly and HelloFresh are among the businesses that saw a flood of new customers in 2020; and. Subscription is a great model because it builds a relationship between the consumer and vendor — or the service provider in some cases. The average U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

. “Our partnership with Staples US Retail significantly increases the availability of in-person drop-off points for online shoppers and gives retailers a more cost-effective way to manage their reverse logistics.” “Staples is a destination for all things shipping, especially for small businesses and remote workers. .

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2021

Lands’ End Marketplace had a soft launch in June 2020 to beta test the platform’s integrated systems. The retailer will leverage its website and drop shipping for order fulfillment to create a positive customer experience. Brands that wish to join the marketplace can submit an application at LandsEnd.com/Marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Consumer Expectations are Higher. Nine out of 10 consumers expect proactive updates on the progress of their packages. 91% of consumers expect to be able to view actual real-time updates on their deliveries. of total U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2021

Holiday 2020 was unlike any other for ecommerce growth. This massive increase put significant strains on the supply chain as well as shipping and delivery. Even though retailers’ shift to all (or mostly) ecommerce came abruptly last March, consumers still felt the effects of the disrupted supply chain months later.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. Loyalty Shifts to Value.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 4, 2021

Claire Webb from Advanced Supply Chain Group looks at why playing a waiting game won’t help retailers beat soaring shipping costs. Many retailers are looking to protect margins against rapidly rising shipping costs. The factors have triggered a long-running period of disruption and caused shipping costs to escalate.

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A1 Retail

JULY 13, 2021

UK independent parcel carrier Yodel has launched a new consumer-to-consumer service, via Yodel Direct, following a record year of growth for online retail. Customers will be able to ship parcels up to 60x50x50cm and weighing up to 10kg.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Amazon on Thursday forecast a slowdown in sales growth for the holiday season, disappointing Wall Street and warning that inflation-wary consumers and businesses had less money to spend. Prior holiday quarter sales growth was 9 per cent in 2021 and 38 per cent in 2020. US consumer confidence did a U-turn in October.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 27, 2022

After the pandemic-driven surge in consumer demand that triggered a frenzy of shipping activity and skyrocketing prices, logistics and transportation companies are signaling a fast slowdown. Shipping and wholesale prices are plunging and orders are not being placed as often. . Disruptions in the Container Shipping Industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This removes the cost and complexity of shipping furniture pieces for photoshoots, which is particularly difficult right now due to supply chain issues, as well as the difficulty of getting all the necessary staff in the same place at the same time. Creating the virtual showrooms was a fairly intuitive process.

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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. Consumers spent $10.8 billion , a 15.1% increase over the same day last year. “At

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2021

Historically, the art world has been synonymous with exclusivity and for the most part, inaccessible to a mass consumer base,” Tom Woodger, vice president of cultural marketing at StockX, told Inside Retail. “In In 2020, we grew two-and-a-half times in two months. The rise of the art-lennial.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Increases in cost of shipping both for raw materials inbound to Brazil plus outbound finished goods to our markets were a big factor for some of 2021 and much of 2022, but things have mostly normalised now,” he added. As shipping rates reduce it is important for businesses to have a dynamic view on their costs,” he elaborated.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 9, 2023

Combining the two in one place for a multi- or omni-channel retail strategy could create an entirely new experience for consumers – and, with rapid developments in modern technology, it opens the door to a multitude of opportunities in the future. over the previous two years.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The brand launched in the UK and Germany last year and recently opened a local warehouse in Australia to facilitate faster shipping. After generating over US$100 million in revenue in 2020, it is rumoured to be exploring the possibility of an IPO. with over 90 per cent accuracy, without ever seeing the consumer’s face.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

As more consumers are vaccinated and COVID restrictions begin to ease, the key questions many retailers will be asking are what will consumers want to buy, and how can they make sure they have the right product, in the right place, as consumers start to resume some of their pre-pandemic activities? Know Where Your Product is.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Returning cotton garments to the farms on which they began would completely close the loop on a cotton product, providing a win for brands, retailers and consumers looking for circular solutions, and a possible benefit to our farmers, their soils and the planet. And fibres don’t have to be shipped offshore.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

For many independent retailers in the UK, 2020 hid a lot of the post-Brexit trading cracks as their domestic sales skyrocketed during periods of lockdown when consumers were forced to stay at home and took to shopping more online. There are rules in place as part of EU trade deals that allow you to recover customs costs – tariff free.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In the summer of 2020, the athleticwear giant announced that it would be opening 150 to 200 smaller-format, digitally enabled mono-brand stores like Nike Live. The stores would include integrated online-to-offline capabilities as part of a digitally empowered phase of Nike’s Consumer Direct strategy , the Consumer Direct Acceleration.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

market saw over $400B in returns in 2020. After all, consumers need to be able to bring back certain items. Consumers, for example, have started to adopt the ‘bracketing’ strategy. This was rendered possible as retailers and brands offered low-cost shipping, unlimited holding periods and easy returns.

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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. Furthermore, 56% of consumers report buy online/return in-store (BORIS) options to be very important, while 72% of consumers report the ability to initiate returns online to be very important to their purchasing decision.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers stuck at home have had the time to thin out their wardrobes and make room in the garage — along with strong financial incentives to turn their possessions into cash. According to thredUP ’s 2020 Resale Report , “online thrifting is a bright spot in the broader COVID retail slump.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon 2020 is the year when the eCommerce narrative shifted in a major way. Walmart’s US eCommerce sales were up 79% in 2020 and were up 11.0% Consumers love shopping online but what they really want is control. The popularity of pickup services has challenged the notion of what consumers want from eCommerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2020

One of the more jaw-dropping retail statistics of the past few months is the more than 400% increase in Walmart shopping app downloads. in the first quarter of 2020. They have plenty of room to offer great discounts, and will be more confident about their shipping guarantees as well.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Customers can join the circular program by dropping off their pre-loved Balenciaga items to participating Balenciaga stores or request collection through Reflaunt. Once an item is sold, it’s shipped from Balenciaga and the seller receives either financial compensation or credit for use in Balenciaga stores.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) WASHINGTON – The unprecedented surge of imports at retail container ports that began last summer is expected to continue at least through the end of this summer as retailers work to meet increased consumer demand, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“We’re not going to see the dramatic growth in imports we saw this time last year, but the fact that volumes aren’t falling is a clear sign of continued consumer demand,” NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said. increase over 2020’s record high of 22 million TEU. The ports handled 2.09 That was down 1.2%

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Some of these retailers have gotten into trouble because they foresaw the challenges of the supply chain – the shortage of containers and container ships – and they overspeculated on their inventory, which is just a gamble. Approach: As a retailer, we considered our strategy carefully and studied what was important to our consumer.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 31, 2021

In our research , we found that 65% of consumers will be buying online more frequently over the next 12 months, with 20% telling us they’re expected to only buy online within 5 years. Delivery reliability has created a crisis of confidence amongst some consumers. Ecommerce today is booming, catapulting online stores to new heights.

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Rangeme

APRIL 8, 2021

Welcome to consumer technology in the age of COVID, where tech gadgets of all kinds became an essential part of the way we lived, worked, learned, entertained and pretty much performed every other activity during 2020. Wellness has taken consumers way beyond Bluetooth headsets and fitness trackers. Take sleep, as an example.

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Rangeme

JUNE 28, 2021

The pandemic was a preview of that, with pet care sales worldwide soaring by almost 9% in 2020, especially in certain categories: pet food sales grew 8%; accessories by 10%; and beauty and grooming categories increasing the most by 11%. Yes, I’m guilty; guilty; and guilty again.). Pet premiumization.

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