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6 Retail Shipping Trends to Watch in 2020

Retail Next

The retail industry has had to change rapidly in response to transforming customer needs. Shoppers want their orders the next day, with free shipping whenever possible. Though some companies have struggled to keep up, others are adapting and revolutionizing the way modern retail operates. Same- or Next-Day Delivery.

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

Indigo 9 Digital

By Tricia McKinnon 2020 is the year when the eCommerce narrative shifted in a major way. Before everyone was focused solely on Amazon but as retailers were forced to shift sales online during the COVID-19 pandemic a number of retailers came to the forefront with their eCommerce savvy and Walmart is one of those retailers.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

But in 2020 Marks & Spencer opened up its website to outside apparel brands. In a small pilot that took place in October of 2020, where Marks & Spencer sold womenswear brand Nobody’s Child on its website, Marks & Spencer found that close to 10% of customers who bought the brand were new to Marks & Spencer womenswear.

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4 Elements of Amazon’s Strategy to Watch

Indigo 9 Digital

Then Amazon comes onto the scene and shows the retail industry there are other ways to make money including by having a lucrative cloud business or through advertising sales. In addition to getting more of your wallet, a service business like this has better margins than Amazon’s retail business and is less capital intensive.

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Tim Hortons’ Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

This was reflected in Tim Hortons’ same store sales growth which was slowing, dropping from 2.5% Or in the process of trying to turn the ship around many companies make a number of missteps as they desperately try to improve operations. McDonald’s was on to something when it launched its “Famous Orders” promotion in 2020.

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From ‘Nice-to-Have’ to ‘Need-to-Have’: How COVID-19 Drove Consumer Tech Sales Growth

Rangeme

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.

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Preparing for the Unknown: Effectively Using Data to Predict this Year’s Holiday Trends

Retail TouchPoints

Nothing about 2020 was normal — in fact, for many retailers, the phrase ‘hindsight is 2020’ is one they should reconsider using. . While many customers will have purchases shipped directly to their homes this year, brick-and-mortar stores have rolled out their own solutions that may impact the way we approach the 2021 holidays.