Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, more than any year since the advent of online and mobile commerce, consumers lost a sense of control. BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) took off in 2020, led by curbside pick-up (BOPAC) increasing 208% by the beginning of May. One-third think seven-day free shipping is ‘acceptable.’ on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

In 2020, 62% of consumers had made that kind of switch. Smarter Shipping Options Transport is a large component of the ecommerce footprint. They require extra effort from customers, cost companies return shipping fees and increase the returned item’s carbon footprint.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Customers can schedule returns via the new Carrier Pickup by FedEx service for products that have been shipped and sold by Walmart.com, using either the website or the Walmart app. Customers without access to a printer at home can choose the “Drop off at FedEx” return method.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The killer feature of Walmart+ may be free shipping on orders over $35 , which 35% of respondents cited as the program’s most exciting part. Walmart+ gives the retail giant’s customers a good reason to keep shopping with it during the pandemic, and free shipping could provide an edge as retailers compete over smaller wallets this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

. “Our partnership with Staples US Retail significantly increases the availability of in-person drop-off points for online shoppers and gives retailers a more cost-effective way to manage their reverse logistics.” “Staples is a destination for all things shipping, especially for small businesses and remote workers.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 4, 2021

Claire Webb from Advanced Supply Chain Group looks at why playing a waiting game won’t help retailers beat soaring shipping costs. Many retailers are looking to protect margins against rapidly rising shipping costs. The factors have triggered a long-running period of disruption and caused shipping costs to escalate.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2021

Lands’ End Marketplace had a soft launch in June 2020 to beta test the platform’s integrated systems. The retailer will leverage its website and drop shipping for order fulfillment to create a positive customer experience.

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

toy industry sales increased 11% in Q3 2021 from 2020, according to the NPD Group , driven by price increases, a continuation of pandemic lifestyles and fewer promotions. Adobe reports that out-of-stock messages are up 172% compared to January 2020 and up 360% from January 2019. Stressed Consumers Spread Out Spending with BNPL.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Winter elements have historically been unkind to packages, which as a side note is why shipping insurance is a good idea during the winter. Brick-and-mortar sales — which will account for 81.2% of total U.S. this year by two full years.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

million names in June 2020. Keeping costs down with drop-ship. Products are sold and shipped by individual sellers on the marketplace, though the items are seamlessly integrated into Myer’s e-commerce site. “The Evans touched on this idea in a statement about the new strategy in Mosaic’s FY20 annual report.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Poshmark has been piloting the Brand Closet program since 2020 with a number of large-scale brands. Now the offering is open to brands and retailers of all sizes, enabling them to engage more deeply with the platform’s 80 million users through limited-time product drops, one-to-one clienteling and Posh Parties. ”

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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2022

Jessie Sadler founded Christina Stephens in 2020 after her mother complained that she couldn’t find good fashionable clothing after experiencing a fall. “We We were shopping on James Street in Fortitude Valley when my mum tripped and smashed both of her elbows,” Sadler explains.

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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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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. For example, store associates should get measured on fulfillment metrics if they are picking and shipping. 5: Retailers will Test NFT Drops.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Increases in cost of shipping both for raw materials inbound to Brazil plus outbound finished goods to our markets were a big factor for some of 2021 and much of 2022, but things have mostly normalised now,” he added. As shipping rates reduce it is important for businesses to have a dynamic view on their costs,” he elaborated.

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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

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 TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

The pandemic put pressure on every retailer’s website, but GNC faced a unique obstacle: the company had rolled out a revamped ecommerce site in January 2020, just in time for social distancing and lockdowns to cause a massive shift toward online ordering. Because we were only 60 days in, there was instability with the site,” said Hamby.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 9, 2023

The prominent British activewear retailer has been a mainstay of ecommerce for a decade – firstly starting out by drop shipping bodybuilding supplements online, before branching out into designing and producing its own line of activewear on a made-to-sell basis. over the previous two years.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Amazon’s 12 per cent extended-trade stock drop erased about $140 billion in its market capitalisation, greater than the entire value of companies such as Morgan Stanley, Netflix and Lockheed Martin. Prior holiday quarter sales growth was 9 per cent in 2021 and 38 per cent in 2020. Analysts were expecting $155.2 Cloud misses.

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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. There are rules in place as part of EU trade deals that allow you to recover customs costs – tariff free.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

And fibres don’t have to be shipped offshore. In 2019, Sheridan launched an in-store recycling program, where customers can drop off old towels, quilt covers and sheets which are then assessed for use in other textile products. It’s [more cost effective].”. Take-back scheme making good progress.

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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 April and May were a tipping point, and from there we really haven’t looked back.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers and industry experts have been forecasting a 2020 holiday season dominated by ecommerce almost since the world started taking COVID-19 seriously, and results from “Cyber Weekend,” or BFCM (Black Friday/Cyber Monday), effectively made their case. Shopper Yield data revealed that spend per consumer increased 36.3%

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The brand launched in the UK and Germany last year and recently opened a local warehouse in Australia to facilitate faster shipping. After generating over US$100 million in revenue in 2020, it is rumoured to be exploring the possibility of an IPO. Here, Holtzman discusses the important role technology plays in the brand’s success.

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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. The amount of online returns in 2020 was more than double compared to 2019. According to Publicis Sapient’s Digital Life Index , 51% of U.S.

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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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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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A1 Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Customers will be able to ship parcels up to 60x50x50cm and weighing up to 10kg. Yodel Direct customers will benefit from two services initially; the Store to Store service, meaning they can drop off their parcel at their nearest Yodel Direct store for their recipient to collect at theirs.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2020

One of the more jaw-dropping retail statistics of the past few months is the more than 400% increase in Walmart shopping app downloads. in the first quarter of 2020. They have plenty of room to offer great discounts, and will be more confident about their shipping guarantees as well.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Customers can join the circular program by dropping off their pre-loved Balenciaga items to participating Balenciaga stores or request collection through Reflaunt. Once an item is sold, it’s shipped from Balenciaga and the seller receives either financial compensation or credit for use in Balenciaga stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2021

Powell and CEO Charlie Cole, both of whom started at the company in early 2020, are part of a “new team charged with giving the brand its groove back, and that requires tech investment,” Powell said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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