Retail Geek

JANUARY 8, 2021

This week we recap the commerce results for Holiday 2020 (including the data sources you can use to get a read for yourself), give an update on #shipageddon, and cover some industry news. 2019 2020 YoY %Ch Stores $864.69 $822.79 -4.8% Scot: [0:54] 2020 one here get you out of the. Online $140.28 $190.47 Total $1004.97 $1013.26

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Mercari Local is being positioned as a good way for users to sell bulky or awkward items such as small household furniture, kitchenware, fitness equipment and baby gear without the added expense of shipping costs. The partnership expands the Uber Direct service into consumer-to-consumer commerce. in a statement.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Secret Sales has signed 75 new contracts with multi-brand retail groups and standalone brands in 12 months, launching 687 new fashion, beauty and homeware brands on its ecommerce marketplace as the retail industry embraces a fresh approach to selling non full price inventory.

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Wiser

APRIL 30, 2020

To find out how much, Wiser Solutions surveyed more than 2,200 consumers in the U.S. and Canada during the first half of April 2020. Overall, the average consumer has changed their behavior due to the virus and stopped going out in public as much as they had before its spread. Consumer electronics – 23 percent.

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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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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

The unprecedented disruptions of 2020 unravelled retail assumptions and exemplified retailers’ resilience in the face of drastically changed customer demands. It’s now time to turn to automation, scale and efficiency to harden much of the innovation that has been held together by masking tape for the past 12 months.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Even for an industry that has been characterized by change over the past two years, it feels like grocery — and especially digital grocery — is poised to experience upheaval in the coming 12 months. These players will continue to expand in 2022, reshaping consumers’ expectations of an acceptable wait time for groceries.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“If you imagine a future for Stitch Fix, it’s one where many clients may want to join for the ‘fix’ experience and then shop, and where others may want to start with the shopping experience without beginning with a fix,” the company’s then President and now CEO Elizabeth Spaulding told Fortune in 2020 about the company’s direct buy option.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Inflation, the war in Ukraine and other global concerns have put a damper on many shoppers’ sustainability demands —leaving just 18% of the population identifying as Eco Actives, consumers for whom reducing their waste remains a firm habit, according to Kantar’s Who Cares, Who Does 2022 study. “One thing is consistency,” said Babbage.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 30, 2024

in the 12 weeks to 21 January, accounting for 15.7% Sainsbury’s was the fastest growing traditional supermarket over the period and was only eclipsed by Lidl, which was the the only retailer to see double digit growth with spending up almost 12%, according to Kantar. The supermarket’s revenues surged 8.1% on last year.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

With retail being one of the most negatively impacted industries in 2020, there’s no doubt that businesses within this sector are eager to recoup losses. Fortunately for retailers, Australian shoppers love sales events with 82 per cent of shoppers having participated in one or more sales events during the past 12 months.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kearney expects holiday 2021 ecommerce sales to hit $206 billion , an increase of 12% to 13% over the previous year — and that’s on top of the 32% year-over-year surge in digital sales recorded by Adobe Analytics in 2020. It is expensive and consumers still do not want to pay for this.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They are able to see the carrier shipping performance for all those clients and provide aggregate data that gives us insight into holiday shipping performance, also known as #shipageddon. Episode 249 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Monday, December 7th, 2020. Transcript.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The stress of the pandemic sparked a surge in the wine, beer and spirits market: a 2020 RAND Corporation study found that alcohol consumption among adults 30 and older increased by 14%. However, beginning in late 2020, many people started to re-evaluate their habits and explore no- and low-alcohol (NA) beverage options.

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Rangeme

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Like Janet Jackson, more consumers are asking brands, “What have you done for me lately?” In the past three months, more than 80% of consumers purchased a different brand from the one they normally buy and 44% said they would repurchase the new brand even if the original preferred brand was available again. August 4, 2020.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

81% of consumers would write off a retailer if they saw issues with return process. 89% of consumers identify ease of returns as top priority when purchasing online. That’s according to new data from delivery experience platform Sorted , which found that retailers who get the returns process right will reap the most consumer loyalty.

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 22, 2020

2020 Dates to Remember: This year Black Friday is on November 27, Cyber Monday is November 30, Small Business Saturday is November 28, and the biggest shopping day of the holiday season will be December 19, the Saturday before Christmas. This year consider the following in your Golden Quarter planning: 1. Don’t ignore Cyber Monday.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

Among them were unpredictable shipment of supplies and waning consumer demand that left many with excess inventory. With more and more consumers turning to social media for their shopping needs, it is likely that social commerce will play a crucial role in the ecommerce market for years to come.

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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. Consumers in every age bracket are in fraudsters’ sights. The youngest group of consumers is Generation Z. Federal data indicates that impostor scams and ecommerce fraud topped the list.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

of all retail spending when the pandemic was at its peak in 2020. And while physical stores have long since reopened, the average consumer still faces plenty of challenges. All of which has a knock-on effect for retailers and could prompt a worrying trend – especially as we approach peak shopping and shipping season in 2022.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

billion) in sales in the year ending February 2, 2020, the most recent trading update the retailer has provided. But with the UK in lockdown for more than 12 of the last 18 months, this strategy has become all but impossible to execute. billion (AU$3.72 billion), The Guardian reported.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Before 2020, when travel was easy and diplomatic relations were cordial, I placed great emphasis on the need to build trusted relationships on the ground in China as the foundation of a successful market entry strategy. trillion Chinese consumers spent in 2019. trillion, and the US$5.6 While some Australian primary products (e.g.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

This follows the opening of its first brick-and-mortar store in 2020 when it “effortlessly” came upon an opportunity to open its Byron Bay concept flagship. We understand that as a consumer, it’s no longer just about the end product, but instead the life cycle of a design and how it is brought to life.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Much of the complexity in supply chains over the last 12 to 18 months was happening farther upstream – so Havaianas experienced some of the same problems as other brands, but at a different point in the process. As shipping rates reduce it is important for businesses to have a dynamic view on their costs,” he elaborated.

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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

Phoebe Yu: Objectively, it’s undoubtedly been a challenging 12 months for businesses, with a lot of political and social volatility. IR: How would you describe the past year for Ettitude and what are your plans for the next 12-18 months? In the middle of 2020, we raised $1.25 We’ve recently become Climate Neutral certified.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

The 2022 Connected Consumer Series featured industry experts, thought leaders and practitioners prepared to share their wisdom with their peers, and spotlighted powerful examples from FILA, Lidl, Patagonia and other businesses. It’s also changing the dynamics of retailers’ relationship with consumers. “If View the session on demand.

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Rangeme

JULY 12, 2021

More consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands are eyeing the U.K. As for consumer market size, the U.S. 5 Top 100 Retailers 2020 List. How a New VAT Rule From BREXIT Now Impacts Every US Seller Shipping to UK Customers. private label sales are on a roll, rising 12% in 2020, smashing records with $158 billion in sales.

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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% Then in 2022 Walmart’s eCommerce sales were up 12%. Consumers love shopping online but what they really want is control. More than 1.7 Take a look at Target.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 28, 2021

SEATTLE — Higher costs on everything from labor to shipping took a toll on Amazon’s profits in the third quarter, the company said on Thursday. billion in the third quarter of 2020. Amazon is forecasting net sales gains of between 4% and 12% compared to last year’s fourth quarter. Net earnings plunged to $3.2

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

NL: It offers customers access to exclusive benefits, including personal shopper services, regular discounts and offers, as well as complimentary express shipping. NL: YNAP champions unparalleled customer service, offering express worldwide shipping to more than 180 countries with a seamless shopping experience across all devices.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

in December, which is the highest increase since November 2020. In particular, furniture and flooring saw exceptionally high demand leading to increased prices as the rising oil costs made shipping more expensive. in January, but is still above the 12-month and six-month average growth rates. Food inflation rose from 2.4%

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Within our first year, we were shipping to 80 countries.”. Five years later, Maison de Sabré is shipping to 130 countries, with key external markets being Japan and the US. Maison de Sabré grew substantially in the first two years to 2020, with Smart Company reporting revenue of $10 million, and year on year growth of 500 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It’s not all doom and gloom though: the pandemic looks set to impose permanent lasting change on retailers far beyond the end of the shutdown, pushing more consumers online than ever before. The shift from offline to online commerce is accelerating, and new direct-to-consumer brands are looking to position themselves to take advantage.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

In addition to centralizing customer data, Gao, who began her role with PacSun in January 2020, had to deal with the unexpected threat of COVID-19 shortly after joining the company. I then moved to Wet Seal and onto Guess for about 12 years. In that 12 years , my career went from manager to a global CIO.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They can easily buy on the platform any day, but incorporating additional benefits like exclusives, discounts and free shipping during high shopping months creates more incentives for consumers.”. Live shopping festivals aren’t the next step in holiday retailing — they’re already here. Coresight launched the 10.10

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