Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

The Children’s Place plans to close 200 stores in 2020 and another 100 stores in 2021, the retailer revealed in announcing its Q1 2020 results. and Canada stores have been closed since March 18, the company enabled ship-from-store capabilities in approximately 85% of its U.S. Even though approximately 95%. of the company’s U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In fact, an Adobe Digital Economy Index (DEI) survey found that one-third of consumers have already experienced shipping delays on their August online orders. Possible shipping delays caused by weather or COVID-19 may ratchet up consumer anxiety and prompt more people to use curbside pickup stations. Staffing Considerations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

Over a four-week period, Build-A-Bear turned its store locations into micro-fulfillment centers so it could maintain store operations, keep associates working and create a bright spot for consumers navigating uncertainty and stress. Creating Joy Amid Uncertainty.

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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. Using Walmart.com or the retailer’s app, they will receive a return code/QR code that they can take, along with the packaged item, to a FedEx Office location.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

As a result, drop-off (at a carrier or retail location) became the preferred returns method for 67% of consumers, according to our BOXpoll surveys. Half of all shoppers (53%) live in a location that makes home pickup easy, but there’s a stark generational divide. consumers love the USPS. The Returns Season Gets Extended.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2020

The article did not say how many locations were being discussed. According to CoStar data from Q1 2020, before JCPenney’s bankruptcy filing in May and its announcement of the pending closure of 242 stores , the retailer had a presence in 48% of all U.S. malls, taking up 6% of mall square footage.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

Last year, Target opened a new sortation center in Minneapolis, designed to ship packages from stores more efficiently by using technology the retailer had previously acquired from Grand Junction and Deliv. The retailer first began working with Cruise in November 2020 to pilot self-driving delivery in Scottsdale, Ariz. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Additionally, Kroger has partnered with Bed Bath & Beyond to introduce a selection of home and baby products, available on both Kroger.com and, beginning in 2022, in a pilot store-in-store concept across select locations in the Kroger family of brands. The collaboration includes bedding, storage and baby-related items.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The delivery-only model will help Whole Foods keep up with digital demand in a major market at a time when grocery delivery is reaching unprecedented levels: Amazon saw its grocery sales triple during Q2 2020. Being able to close off one location and only ship from there actually makes a lot of sense at this point.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Fortunately, the labor disputes were resolved before any major disturbance to the economy, but the situation has forced brands — and any business that relies on national carriers — to reconsider their shipping strategy by embracing a multi-carrier approach. How fast and reliable is the delivery service? Is real-time tracking available?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

While certain ecommerce verticals saw mind-boggling sales increases in 2020, luxury goods, including jewelry, enjoyed more modest revenue boosts, according to Signifyd Ecommerce Pulse data. Upscale jewelry designer Gorjana, for example, saw 300% growth in 2020, with a 400% monthly increase in sales between April and May 2020 alone.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Many brands were out of stock and out of luck during the 2020 holiday season. Once goods make it off a ship, the next slowdown comes as dozens of entities with conflicts of their own work to accommodate their quick transport. Most organizations need at least three fulfillment centers to offer two-day shipping to their customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

Luxury home brand Brooklinen is planning to triple its brick-and-mortar retail presence, first with the addition of four stores in new markets in 2022 and plans to reach 25 to 30 locations by the end of 2024. ” Brooklinen’s brick-and-mortar expansion was previously announced after the company raised $50 million in March 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2020

Most of the closures are expected to be smaller, non- Zara branded locations, and the retailer also plans to open 450 new stores fitted with the latest sales integration technology. Staff members at the closed stores will be offered new roles with the company, such as handling fulfillment of ship-from-store orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They also provide an answer to some of the challenges created by the pandemic, as executives from Woodman’s Markets and Badger Technologies discussed during a session titled The Rise Of Robotics In Retail at the 2020 Retail Innovation Conference. The robots also can improve merchandising.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

billion online in 2020, and many sellers experienced substantial growth in key categories, such as home goods, health and beauty. With marketplaces growing more than 80% globally in 2020, there will be even more options than ever for brands to connect with consumers. Australians spent an unprecedented $50.46 Fulfilment of the future.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2021

2020 has been an exceptionally turbulent year for all, with 2021 somewhat following suit. Even when steps were taken to reopen retail, it was with a vastly different outlook and a dramatically different model from what was needed before the 2020 pandemic hit. The Future of RFID and Retail. By using RFID, BOPIS 2.0

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

The Costco pilot will begin at 25 warehouse stores in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, with seven more Texas locations to be added over the coming weeks. The platform, which launched in 2020, offers retailers on-demand delivery options and lets companies fill their own ecommerce orders through Uber couriers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

The affected Go locations include two in New York City, two in Seattle and four in San Francisco. All eight locations will close on April 1, and the ecommerce giant will help affected workers find roles elsewhere in the company. The initial two towers located on the site are nearly completed and workers will begin moving in in June.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Four Minneapolis locations will reduce their shoppable square footage to approximately 15,000 square feet , down from an average of 27,000 square feet , focusing on a limited number of SKUs from its most popular items and categories.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

The retailer has been pushing to make its stores more flexible during the pandemic, including the December 2020 move when Best Buy launched a four-store pilot in Minneapolis that reduced shoppable areas so the stores could better operate as fulfillment hubs. in fiscal 2020, well above the 17% growth experienced in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2020

In fact, MHI’s 2020 Industry Report found that “customer demand on response times” was one of the top challenges in the supply chain today. They’re strategically located in major metropolitan areas around the country where demand is high, positioning goods closer to customers to shorten last-mile delivery times. Embrace Partnerships.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This author went to six stores to find a single metal rake in the fall of 2020! Changes in demand are still in play, as are COVID-driven manufacturing disruptions, shipping delays and misguided efforts to reduce inventory (mostly through discounting). Most of the early shortages were driven by changes in demand. is important.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

According to McKinsey , the value of excess inventory from spring/summer 2020 collections is a staggering $154.5 In order to understand where inventory should be deployed (or redeployed) to sell quickly, retailers must quickly analyze sales trends in all channels and retail locations, in order to predict customer demand.

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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. This holiday season, with stores fully operational once again, we’ll see consumers gravitate to physical locations in even greater numbers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Here are five ways retailers can modify their returns practices to make a positive impact on their bottom lines: Direct consumers to physical locations to decrease costs; Automate actions that benefit the retailer. Direct Consumers To Physical Locations. in the retailer’s facilities. Happy Returns works with retailers in two ways.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Now the retailer is ready to resume rolling out more enhanced brick-and-mortar locations, starting with recent store openings in Paramus, N.J. There are endless possibilities via digital systems; for example, team members can help customers complete an order on the shopper’s phone, and we ship items to their homes free of charge.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Americans spent more money online during the 2020 holiday season than previously, with revenues growing 32% year-over-year and exceeding $188.2 Recent data shows that people plan to buy more gifts and spend more money than they did in 2020. billion for the first time, according to Adobe Analytics.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Kearney expects holiday 2021 ecommerce sales to hit $206 billion , an increase of 12% to 13% over the previous year — and that’s on top of the 32% year-over-year surge in digital sales recorded by Adobe Analytics in 2020. With so much at stake, retailers must get fulfillment right or risk being left behind.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Meanwhile, rising energy, shipping and labor costs means higher prices for many grocery items. Since digital grocery has grown, however, many have strayed to Amazon, Walmart and other providers because location no longer matters. If 2020 was online grocery’s “debutante party,” then 2022 might be viewed as its genuine coming of age.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

With marketing and advertising costs, discounts, promotions, free shipping, fast deliveries and high returns, leaving money on the digital commerce table isn’t an option. They may log in in one country, maintain a billing zip code in a second geography and seek to ship goods to a third location.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

claimed to continue operating normally in the wake of COVID, and their expected revenue changes compared to pre-COVID 2020 projects were -15.3%. While many retailers were already offering some shipping and store pickup options before, the demand now is higher and expected to stay popular post-pandemic. Customer attitudes have changed.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2022

Retailers save on shipping costs while leveraging their in-store inventories to fulfill customer orders, while shoppers get the products they want without having to wait for a delivery. The checkout counter is located at the back of the store, and we do have ‘impulse buy’ items near the pickup area.”. Click-and-collect, a.k.a.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Located in its birthplace of Eugene, Ore. 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. Its quick success encouraged the company to follow suit with Live stores in Tokyo, New York and now Eugene.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing a photoshoot for a furniture collection is typically an expensive, logistics-heavy procedure that involves months spent coordinating teams of people, products and locations. The first walkthrough , which launched in winter 2020, had four different visions including a farmhouse and a California style theme.

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