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4 Omnichannel Myths Keeping You From Success

Retail TouchPoints

Omnisend , 2020) Omnichannel shoppers have a 30% higher lifetime value. Google ) Companies with well-defined omnichannel customer experience strategies see a 91% higher year-over-year increase in customer retention rate on average, compared to those without. Aberdeen Group ). Aberdeen Group ).

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The Future of Retail and AI

Retail TouchPoints

Over the course of 2020, retailers increasingly turned to AI-driven technology to optimize their operations and better understand their customers. In 2021, retailers will utilize the data they’ve gathered over the past year to focus on customer retention and fostering brand loyalty.

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At Home to be Taken Private in $2.8 Billion Purchase

Retail TouchPoints

as shoppers continued investing in home improvement projects during late 2020. At Home plans to retain this momentum with an emphasis new customer retention and growth. The retailer reported a net sales increase of 41.3% to $562 million and a comparable store sales increase of 30.8%

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How to Keep Your Loyalty Program Members Engaged Long-Term, Even After the Holidays

Retail TouchPoints

Well-timed special incentives, like social kickbacks and rebates, can inspire customers to re-engage with your program after the holidays and cement their role as brand evangelists. Offer personalized benefits that evolve with customer needs. Personalization is critical to a comprehensive loyalty strategy and customer retention.

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Analysis: Keeping up the Covid cashflow

Inside Retail

Supermarket chains were virtually lottery winners of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, spectacularly increasing sales and earnings. Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Metcash are doubling down on initiatives to maintain sales momentum and lock in customers they acquired in 2020. Holding on. billion, representing a 6.1 per cent increase.

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Marijuana Customer Loyalty Programs: Embraced by Users, Profitable and Compliant for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

It provides them with a tool to focus on current customers’ traffic vs. leveraging illegal mediums to attract new customers. Typically, customers do not mind these often non-altruistic but profitable methods of customer retention. Why does customer loyalty work?

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Where Online Shopping Rises, WhatsApp Follows

Retail TouchPoints

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, paired with renewed restrictions and stay-at-home orders approaching the holidays, that steady pace of online shopping growth has gone out the window. While that is a massive gap to close across markets, the wheels of change started churning in 2020 as U.S.

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