Small Biz Trends

JULY 1, 2022

Small businesses in California have been recently reminded of the July 27, 2022, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by the pipeline oil spill in Orange County that began October 2, 2021. The damage was likely caused by one or more ship anchors catching on the pipe and dragging it along the sea bed.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

The suit is based on Bolt’s promise to provide its AllPass subscription service, which would have worked across all of ABG’s retail brands to allow shoppers to receive free shipping and product discounts. In 2021, Bolt grew its number of accounts by 180% and number of transactions by 200%.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Add this product surplus to heightened consumer concern about shipping times and product availability, and you have all the makings of a secondhand-heavy holiday season. Collectively, that would account for approximately $69.2 billion in spending on previously owned items in 2021, an increase of 24% from the $55.9

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2023

It] is regarded as one of the consistently top performing brands amongst our wholesale accounts,” Dahl-Thorup said. According to Dahl-Thorup, Bestseller has reduced emissions by over 80 per cent, with all energy consumption in Bestseller owned and operated buildings in Europe being driven by solar power from 2021.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Research suggests that global online payment fraud merchants stand to lose $206 billion between 2021 and 2025 1 , and in 2021 overall card fraud increased by 5.7 Rush orders that need overnight or express shipping. Transfer of funds to a transaction account or money transfer agency. Be aware of refund fraud.

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VMS

JULY 26, 2021

As of Friday, 33 ships were anchored off the coast of Los Angeles and Long Beach waiting to dock and unload their cargo. These two ports reportedly account for one-third of U.S. Half of the ships are classified as “mega-container” ships, which can carry up to 10,000 TEUs.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2022

Between inflation, increased marketing costs — especially paid ads — seasonal shipping costs surcharges and potential supply chain disruptions, finding every last opportunity to increase profits during the busiest time of the year is critical for brands. Focus on key automation. Subject lines up to seven words have the highest open rates.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

Country manager for the company’s Australia/New Zealand territory David Boyer said that the changing habits towards increased consumer e-commerce spending – which developed over the course of the pandemic – have remained relatively undisturbed in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

In fact, Salesforce has already predicted that the modest growth of the 2021 holiday shopping season could foreshadow this year , with Q1 data showing a 3% YoY decrease in global digital sales. and shoppers placed 12% fewer orders worldwide compared to the same period in 2021. Loyalty Shifts to Value.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Discounting and perks like free shipping have been successful drivers of Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns; however, dropping prices is not a winning strategy that creates a path to profitability. Minimizing perks like free shipping and employing more efficient acquisition models will also fuel topline growth.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

31, 2021. “We’re 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. with BNPL orders in 2021 up 44% compared to 2019 and 3% over 2020, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index. “In

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Inside Retail

APRIL 11, 2023

Based on the 2021 Census, millennials have passed baby boomers on an Australian population level. The rising cost of raw materials, shipping, warehousing and labour is putting enormous pressure on retailers, suppliers and increasingly price-conscious consumers. Make ship happen with Dropshipzone today.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

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. “The Omnichannel and Store-Based Fulfillment Are Bigger Than Ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Online fraud cost digital commerce merchants $27 billion in 2021 , so it’s no surprise that retailers have redoubled their focus on eliminating these threats. As just one example, Chewy was a pandemic winner, but the company spent more than half a billion dollars marketing to consumers in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The audience of people with disabilities is larger than most people think ,” said Geoff Freed, Director of Perkins Access Consulting during a session at the 2021 Retail Innovation Conference. “It Make sure the “Sign In” and “Create an Account” links are easily located and can be recognized by a screen reader for visually impaired users.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2022

Between a global pandemic, a ship getting stuck in the Panama Canal , unprecedented spikes in demand leading to a global snafu of shipping containers, historically long queues of ships waiting to berth in ports around the world, war, and rising inflation; it almost beggars belief that all of this has occurred in just two short years.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With port delays, extended delivery times and increased consumer demand, what can retailers do to salvage the 2021 holiday season? Over the last 20 years of holiday shipping, we’ve seen how the most successful online retailers prepare for a stellar holiday selling season. Can I do this for Holiday Season 2021? Absolutely!

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, face coverings and masks from stars like Kanye West saw a 154% average resell price increase from $82 to $208. By entering numerous emails and shipping addresses, the bots can get around traditional fraud detection systems. The moment the product becomes live or tickets go on sale, bots make mass purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Amazon placed an order for 100,000 electric vans from Rivian in August 2020, and the first part of the fleet will begin making deliveries in 15 cities over the course of 2021, starting with Los Angeles. Electric Delivery Vans Launching in 15 Cities. Data Analysis Leads to More Efficient Packaging.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before the NotPetya attack rampaged through Europe in 2017, affecting companies including FedEx and shipping giant Maersk, few people would have thought a vulnerability in a piece of accounting software could create such devastation. Those trends are set to continue in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Mejuri sells through multiple channels, including ecommerce, call center and physical store locations, processing orders for fulfillment across multiple locations and a variety of shipping methods. Mejuri uses the real-time tracking to swiftly, and fluidly, pivot strategies. “A

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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. That’s the billion dollar question.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Brick-and-mortar sales — which will account for 81.2% Regardless, these communications will be crucial to whether holiday customers return throughout 2021. of total U.S. holiday retail — are expected to decline 4.7% Consumers Want Options.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the latest data from Australia Post, more than four in five households shopped online in early 2021 – an all-time high that’s been rising steadily since the global pandemic first sent people to online channels in record numbers. In the US, for example, eMarketer reports that D2C sales now account for 33% of Nike’s revenue. .

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The opening paragraph of the book is a good indication of the kind of “warts and all” account that the reader is in for: “Emily Weiss was crying. As of July 2021, the company raised an additional $83 million with a Series E round of funding that brought its valuation up to $1.8

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

The 2022 back-to-school (BTS) season could be the most “normal” since the start of the pandemic, with even more demand than the record-setting BTS 2021 season for clothing, classroom supplies and new technology. Another easy step: Drop account creation requirements and allow guest checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

On the other hand, some businesses, such as home improvement stores, actually saw sales increase throughout the pandemic and began course-correcting their retail footprints to account for more online traffic. To account for this, some retailers have shifted to a hybrid model of livestreamed in-store events.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

If retailers think online shopping in 2021 is about the simple exchange of goods for money, they’re doing it wrong. Before the pandemic, ecommerce accounted for approximately 16% of all retail. Customers don’t just want to buy a product — they want an experience. The answer? Cloud-native microservices.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2022

The creation of the board came about following backlash in 2021, when Woolworths Group proposed a new Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin near three ‘dry’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The plan to launch the store was ceased, and Endeavour Group spun out from Woolworths Group later in 2021. I certainly can’t wait.”.

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Retalon

JANUARY 6, 2021

In reality, replenishment planning is a fairly complicated process that has to account for many variables, including logistics routes, timelines, availability, and cost. This quickly results in a communication breakdown, as one category plan may fail to take all other category plans into account.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 19, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions increased nearly 30 percent during the 2021 holiday period. The data showed that BNPL transactions peaked more than 43 percent in October as shoppers began their 2021 holiday shopping early. Within October 2021, a peak at 99 percent was recorded compared to the same period in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2023

Often referred to as third-party sellers, these independent businesses now account for more than 60% of annual sales on Amazon, according to the company, and they sell an average of 7,800 products every minute through the platform. from Prime Day 2021, while 1P sales increased 6.1% , according to Capitol One Research.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

livestreaming ecommerce market will grow to $65 billion in 2026 , which will account for 5% of all ecommerce sales. Above all, have fun with live selling: 41% of consumers say that entertainment is the top reason why they watch livestreams, compared to 25% of consumers in 2021. Live Shopping is Here to Stay. It’s About Entertainment.

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Retalon

JULY 27, 2021

For instance, Destination resorts that run gift shops must account for occupation rates in their hotels as well as weather. Fashion retailers need to account for size curves for every SKU Jewelry retailers carry low quantities of one-of-a-kind stones that need to be strategically stocked in stores they are most likely to sell.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Bolstering that finding is research by eMarketer which indicates that direct-to-consumer (D2C) ecommerce sales will expand to $18 billion in 2021. Seize every opportunity from home page to the shipping confirmation to say who you are, what you offer and why your brand is stellar. Elevate your omnichannel strategy.

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Retail Minded

JULY 25, 2022

Supply Chain and Freight Challenges Leading to Shipping Changes. ports and the resulting supply chain issues was widely reported during the 2021 holiday season, the problem is ongoing. Recently, a study by the Royal Bank of Canada found that 20% of all of the container ships in the world are currently waiting in congested ports.

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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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