Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. More Online Sales Means More Returns. Retailers across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

20, revealed that out-of-stock product messages have jumped 172% this holiday season compared to the pre-pandemic period (January 2020). Getting the products out of origin destinations has been a real challenge, and it’s been very impactful in the apparel and furniture categories,” said Cochran. said Bolstorff.

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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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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 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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Yet we’ve also seen consumers in locked down states line up for hours to access physical retail as it reopened. Then, in April 2020, as restrictions started, they jumped to 11.1 cent for non-food categories. So, the ABS Retail Trade data shows the clear impact of lockdowns and general Covid restrictions. So which is it?

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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. The stores will open at 7:00 AM on Black Friday, the general opening time for the majority of its stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Q4 2020 will be the most consequential retail quarter of the past 25 years. To make the most of this holiday shopping season, retailers must understand changes in consumer behavior and mindset, and reflect this understanding in their in-store experiences. Music: “We are off to grandma’s”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2022

inflation being this high and moving so quickly, both in food and general merchandise, is unusual. We can offer an unbeatable range of owned and national brands across our portfolio categories. And we will work with our vendor partners from sourcing to production to shipping.”. We can make value into our assortment.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

We have answers in this webinar, held on September 25th, 2020, and hosted by the Category Management Association. Welcome on a Friday morning, to listen in on a really outstanding webinar that we have being hosted by the Category Management Shopper Insights Association. Retail in 2020. Casey Berns: Yes, thanks, Tom.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

growth recorded in 2021 and the 26% jump in 2020. However, investors generally felt bullish despite the likely lukewarm results. Livestreaming remains one of the biggest touch points for Singles’ Day shoppers, and 2022 reached nearly 300 million consumers through this channel alone. to 3.6% , according to Reuters. million ). “The

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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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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For 36 years, Deloitte has been examining consumer behavior and sentiment ahead of retail’s crucial holiday shopping season. The report is based on a survey of 4,315 consumers conducted online Sept. Moreover, the percentage of overall consumers who do not plan to spend at all this season is 11.5%, more than doubling from 2020 (4.9%).

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Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 21, 2022

Flipkart is a homegrown company and has provided Walmart with a way to access Indian consumers which are increasingly buying online. With a lower price point the founders believed they had a better chance of getting consumers to give their eCommerce service a chance. share in 2020 while Amazon had a 31.2% billion in 2021.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2021

The chip invented the category of the DPU last year, and it’s already being embraced by cloud services, supercomputers and many OEMs and software partners. It’s an array of hardware accelerators and general-purpose Arm cores that speed networking, security and storage jobs. million in 2020 to 7.4 A Full Plug-and-Play Stack.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

About 43 percent of customers online begin shopping by going directly to the search bar to find their items instead of browsing by category. According to Hamish Ogilvy, CEO of Sajari , there are some easy ways that retailers can deal with this problem: Organize and personalize SKUs with tags and relevant categories and subcategories.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you have a traditional retail business or a pure play eCommerce company then Amazon is a great model not just for how fast goods should be shipped but also for how to think differently about how to monetize your customer base. Amazon launched Amazon Pharmacy in 2020 which offers online ordering and delivery of prescriptions.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2023

Retailers using AMRs should be aware of the potential backlash from consumers who (rightly or wrongly) worry about the impact on the labour market.” He added that the technology has helped increase its daily fulfilment potential by over 10 per cent, and has enabled The Iconic to pick, pack and ship its orders in under five minutes.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. And how can that not have an effect on consumers’ minds? It has been that kind of a year for the one-time category-killing leader. Happy New Year. INFLATION ON.

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Rangeme

APRIL 25, 2022

As conscious consumerism gains global momentum, more retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers now take their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts seriously. That’s because today’s informed consumers—and investors—care about and watch what companies are doing to protect people and the planet. Packaging World.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The pandemic accelerated this gradual change: Online retailers captured market share from established brick-and-mortar players who had to quickly adapt to new in-store consumer purchase behavior and patterns. Consumer preferences and behavior have likely changed for good, and may never fully revert to the pre-pandemic era.

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Rangeme

DECEMBER 7, 2021

and global consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers and retailers clarity on adapting to and satisfying consumers’ evolving needs. October 14, 2020. , Also, Dollar General and Dollar Tree added stores to help more consumers stretch every dollar. This trend analysis can give U.S. Overarching Retail Trends.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you want to follow along on with all the data, here is a visual recap of retail growth 2020-2021. Retailers now compete with social media networks for eyeballs Apparel has shifted from designer led to consumer led, as evidenced by the meteoric rise of Shein. There were clear winners and losers. PDF Download).

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Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 27, 2022

growth in 2020. Consumers would spend their Saturday afternoons at the mall getting everything they needed in one trip. Consumers can shop at a Walmart or a Target and get most of their weekly needs fulfilled without having to shop at multiple stores. Its eCommerce sales were up 20.8% last year on top of 144.7%

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The pandemic accelerated this gradual change: Online retailers captured market share from established brick-and-mortar players who had to quickly adapt to new in-store consumer purchase behavior and patterns. Consumer preferences and behavior have likely changed for good, and may never fully revert to the pre-pandemic era.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

April Sales – Flat vs. March 2021, up 41% vs. April 2020 (severely Covid impacted month). Many categories were wildly up, most notably Apparel which was up 727% vs the same month last year. vs Q4 2020, up 39.1% vs Q1 2020. Perry was up 200 and or I’m sorry 727 percent from April of 2020.

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Retail Minded

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Reinforcing this are technology leaders who aim to deliver profitable solutions for merchants looking to achieve clarity to their inventory, supply, logistics and consumers – ultimately creating more dynamic, more engaging and more profitable retail experiences.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

Like is that does that surprise you at all it has is that has that been your perception that these are Monster year that 2020 and 2021 more Monster years for retail because I feel like that’s not necessarily the narrative we’ve been getting in some of the Commerce media.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 15, 2022

From small retailers to large retailers sufficient foot traffic has never been more important as consumers elect to do more of their shopping online. In 2020 as a thank you for working during the pandemic Shake Shack paid its hourly employees holiday bonuses of $250-$400 and it shelled out an additional $6 million in wages.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Episode 313 is preview of Holiday 2023 with Rob Garf , Vice President and General Manager, Retail at Salesforce. billion consumers are shaping shopping trends. Demand got pulled earlier in the season and oh by the way retailers didn’t have to Discount as steep as they normally do so going into 2020 retailers thought. [11:26]

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Salesforce shopping index combines data and holiday insights on the activity of more than a billion global shoppers across more than 54 countries powered by Commerce Cloud, billions of consumer engagements and millions of public social media conversations through Marketing Cloud, and customer service data powered by Service Cloud.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Scot: [1:25] We had some breaking news and pretty exciting and I’m going to kick it over to you because it is your category of grocery. Jason: [8:43] Yeah I generally agree I’m not confident that it’s I’m sure. Scot: [1:11] An unrelated news he’s no longer but awesome I’m glad you did well we wanted.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2021

from Q2 2020, e-commerce in Q2 grew 9% during the same period (due to the very high covid driven e-com last year). Stores selling essential goods are comping against a very large 2020 basis in Q2. Year to Date sales were up 21.1% Apparel is in the biggest recovery, up 63%. In July the gap has closed to $4B in sales. Amazon News.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Major disruptions to the supply chain, the last mille, and to consumer behavior as a result of covid, will make this year extremely hard to predict and manage for brands and retailers. 5:52] A kind of predictor of future spending is this this huge survey that University of Michigan does every month the consumer confidence index.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Jason: [4:56] Yeah and that’s super exciting to me because that I frequently rail against the value of stated preference surveys in our industry and and what we’re talking about today is observed preferences lies actual data and consumer behavior that you’re watching. 2020 and 2021.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Episode 251 is our annual predictions episode for 2021 and a recap of our 2020 predictions. 2020 Recap – Predictions made on episode 204. 2020 Predictions Recap. 5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures Yes Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers No Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC Yes Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution) No Retail Media > $20B Yes. Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020.

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