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7 Ways Service Providers can Motivate Customers with Digital Incentives

Retail TouchPoints

For service providers, discounts have additional drawbacks. They can often be difficult to implement, especially for businesses with recurring monthly payments. And they dont really provide the best value for the service provider or the customer. Using technology to make the process of issuing and redeeming incentives seamless.

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DTLR, Shoe Palace Shift to Mobile POS at 450 U.S. Stores

Retail TouchPoints

The UK-based JD Sports acquired Shoe Palace in December 2020 and DTLR in February 2021 as part of a push into U.S. Associates at both DTLR and Shoe Palace will now be equipped with mobile devices through which they can accept payments, manage inventory and place online orders to be shipped to customers homes.

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DEI Deflates, Retail Media Rises, Mergers Flounder

Retail TouchPoints

After moving aggressively into direct sales in 2020 and 2021, Nike had to begin rekindling wholesale relationships with retailers including DSW and Macys in late 2023.

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Answering the $100 Billion Question: How Can Retailers Combat Refund Fraud?

Retail TouchPoints

In these cases, customers dispute legitimate charges with their credit card companies, falsely claiming non-receipt of goods or dissatisfaction with services received. Ferraz started his first company at University in Brazil, and before Incognia, he and his co-founders established In Loco, an ad tech business acquired in 2020.

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Ramen chain in court over underpaying staff

Inside Retail

The Fair Work Ombudsman has alleged that the operators failed to comply with the notices, without reasonable excuse, which required them to calculate and back-pay the workers’ entitlements. “A court can order a business to pay penalties and make payments to workers.

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Gen Z will rewrite the rules of Australian retail

Inside Retail

Rare Beauty, launched by Selena Gomez in 2020, swiftly built traction among Gen Z by blending influencer collaborations, authentic storytelling, and platform-specific content strategies. Fast and frictionless checkouts leveraging mobile payment systems and self-service options.

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Using In-Store Expertise to Battle Black-Owned Beauty Brands’ Historical Hurdles

Retail TouchPoints

In response, retailers including Sephora and Rent the Runway signed on to the 15% Pledge in June 2020 , which called for retailers to reserve 15% of their shelf space for Black-owned brands. Thats why our flagship program is in-store sales and education support. Were involved in ensuring that youre ready to go into retail. [We