Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Homewares retailer Sheridan Australia is taking part in a novel trial in which its shredded cotton products are returned to the soil to test whether it can improve cotton soil health and act as a scalable solution to textile waste. And fibres don’t have to be shipped offshore. It’s [more cost effective].”.

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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. According to proprietary research conducted by Forter, 23% of shoppers will abandon their carts if returns options are poor. Returns Abuse And Customer Expectations. This is amplified in some industries.

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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

Blue Apron, Freshly and HelloFresh are among the businesses that saw a flood of new customers in 2020; and. More than one-third of Americans said that none of the gifts they gave during the 2020 holiday season were shipped. There are subscription shopping services now available too.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Regardless, these communications will be crucial to whether holiday customers return throughout 2021. With many people working from home, there won’t be as many office buildings and businesses for carriers to drop off consumers’ packages.

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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. Ship-from-store capabilities to fulfill online orders are another service that Nike says will allow consumers to get products faster and more efficiently.

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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. By October that number had only dropped to 66% — a clear indication that people were still very much looking to get their orders as soon as possible.

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Independent Retailer

MARCH 17, 2022

According to UN trade and development experts UNCTAD, the ecommerce sector contributed a drastic three percent increase (from 16% to 19%) to all retail sales in 2020. The price of manufacturing and shipping has increased to reflect the lack of labor, supply of goods, and transportation space. Growing ecommerce ( >$26.7

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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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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

JULY 26, 2022

While shopping sprees leading up to Black Friday happened before 2020, more shoppers bought in early November over the last two years due to inventory and supply chain issues. While we predict that ASP will increase monthly between 8% and 12% for the remainder of 2022, there is a silver lining for holiday shoppers: the return of discounting.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

At the moment it is hard to accurately determine how much digital sales will drop (if at all), and whether this drop will be more than compensated for by an uptick in in-store sales. Profitably Managing Returns. With the surge in online shopping has come a surge in returns.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. Omnichannel approach The business will continue to leverage its existing software technology to drive growth and efficiency in its retail operations. “We

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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. Simplifying the schemes available.

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A1 Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Shpock now includes the option to buy shipping via Royal Mail’s Click&Drop on its delivery menu. . of over 12,700 drop-off locations across the UK including parcel postboxes, making it easy for Shpock users to deposit their parcels for delivery. . Launched in October 2020,?Parcel Royal Mail boasts a network?of

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The San Francisco-based platform shipped its vast array of discounted products straight from their factories. “[The Flying on a high off the pandemic online shopping trend, Wish debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange in December 2020 providing it with an initial valuation of £11.4bn ($14bn).

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2021

In 2020, we grew two-and-a-half times in two months. Bluethumb also offers free shipping and free seven-day returns to reassure those who might still hesitate to drop over $10,000 on a piece of art they haven’t actually seen in real life. “If

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365 Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Shpock users can now benefit from a raft of new shipping options via Royal Mail’s Click&Drop service. Royal Mail boasts a network of over 12,700 drop off points across the UK, making it easy for Shpock users to drop off their parcels for delivery. Launched in October 2020,?Parcel

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But seller uptake was slow — at the end of 2020, Google Shopping had approximately 8,000 sellers, according to Marketplace Pulse. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7 In 2020, Amazon took a little over 10% of U.S. digital ad revenue in 2020, but the company wants to keep it that way.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

For retailers with stores and offices in Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Wollongong and the Central Coast of New South Wales, the two-week lockdown announced on Saturday has meant a return to stockpiling behaviour, remote working and potential supply chain disruptions. But this time around, they’re better prepared to handle it. “We

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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% This service is also beneficial for consumers worried about their goods being stolen after they are dropped off. Walmart’s strength in eCommerce can be seen in its results.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whilst 2020 was about dealing with the outcomes of the acceleration of e-commerce and omnichannel, in 2021, retailers were trying to cope with a perfect storm of demand and supply issues, including international shipping uncertainty, loss of capacity, increased costs – even a lack of containers and pallets.

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A1 Retail

JULY 28, 2022

Hush Puppies brand revenue is up +237% for H1 2022 vs 2020. Celebrating over 60 years of brand history, Hush Puppies continuing success in the UK can be attributed to the addition of 49 new retail partners in 2021, and sustained growth across all sales channels; Bricks (+ 39% YOY), Internet sales (+ 32% YOY) and drop shipping (+30% YOY).

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Retail Minded

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’re running out of stock or shipping to the wrong addresses on a regular basis, these mishaps are often down to ineffective workflows or human error. . Forrester also expects spending on customer loyalty and retention will increase by 30% over the next year, after acquiring plenty of new online customers during the 2020 ecommerce boom.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Customers really love our fast shipping and customer service, where we get a lot of positive feedback. Customers are also looking for a direct relationship with brands, so in 2020, we on-boarded SMS marketing, through Yotpo. We launched our loyalty program with Yotpo in October 2020 and we have received amazing feedback.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

Advice: Any CEO is measured by the profit margin they generate from the turnover of their inventory, so it’s critical to always measure your return on working capital. Liquidity was an issue, property prices dropped and with it consumer confidence and the Australian dollar dropped dramatically against the US dollar.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. Emphasizing BOPIS.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

W ITH THE WORLD adjusting to Covid a few years later as less of a threat and more a part of everyday life, retailers sought to return to business as usual. The initial plan is to drop these package-carrying drones into the backyards of residents in Lockeford, Calif. Container ships are canceling routes from Asia to North America.

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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.). Prescriptions, too. Pet premiumization.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2020

Shoppers making online purchases in new categories are valuable targets, but the search advertising space was growing increasingly crowded even before the pandemic caused a surge in online shopping, according to Sidecar’s 2020 Benchmarks Report: Google Ads in Retail. In contrast, paid search clicks dropped 12%.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The supermarket’s general merchandise sales also dropped 8% in the second quarter, as it came up against a tough quarter a year ago when demand was boosted amid pandemic restrictions. The supermarket boss told reporters that the group also chartered its own ships to help reduce potential disruption to some imports.

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Hyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Even before the pandemic, usage of QR codes increased by 96% between 2018 and 2020, highlighting its importance in this digital era. QR codes for product exchange and return services . Amazon, the leading online retail giant, provides a contactless return service through QR codes. QR codes for product manuals .

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Retail Bound

MAY 22, 2022

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retail establishments in the United States in Q3 2020 were 1,045,422, up 4,801 over the previous quarter — the highest Q3 retail establishment count in the last decade. Since then, levels have dropped to 15% — higher than pre-pandemic but lower than the highest levels in early 2020.

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Independent Retailer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained, and in 2022, they dropped considerably. Among them, a global supply chain crisis — rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping times — buttressed by a lack of resources and skyrocketing costs was brought on by the Ukraine war. The result?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s The other complicating factor is you’ve got consumers who are incredibly aware of the supply chain, inventory and shipping challenges that are out there. The rise in traffic compared to 2020 showed that shoppers are starting to return to stores. Overall sales were up 8.5%

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained – and in 2022, they have dropped. Among them, a global supply chain crisis – rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping. Even returns are up – reaching 16.6% in 2020 (National Retail Federation). With the return on inventory. The result?

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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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