Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Back in 2020, Amazon opened its first Amazon Go store in Seattle, introducing consumers to the concept of full-size, cashierless grocery stores. If they opt for the autonomous checkout, customers need to use the Rewe app to register at the entrance to the store. billion euros in 2021. Cutting down costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

These concerns are fueling consumer expectations for more contactless experiences everywhere they go, including the retail environment. To mitigate health and safety concerns and deliver on these expectations, retailers are designing touchless shopping experiences with the help of voice and speech recognition technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

More than one-third of consumers now shop online each week, up from 28% pre-pandemic. The customers of one of my clients, a retailer of hobbyist products, skew older and retired and did less shopping online. So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Called “Buy Direct,” the third-party marketplace is being integrated into Bing’s existing ecommerce experience, Start Shopping, where consumers can find products and are then directed to a retailer’s website to make the purchase. Google’s shopping function is more algorithm-based, relying on the query itself and search history.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In another sign that Black Friday, and to some extent the entire extended Thanksgiving weekend, has ceded its position as a truly peak shopping period, Black Friday 2021 was a mixed bag for retailers. higher than 2020’s, although it was not yet back up to 2019 levels (Black Friday 2021 was down 28.3% Store traffic was 47.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

Most experts expected holiday 2021 to be a digital success, and the season didn’t disappoint: global sales hit $1.14 As a result, Cyber Week 2021 accounted for 23% of total ecommerce spend, down slightly from 24% in 2020. trillion , up from $1.1 trillion in 2020, while U.S. 18 and Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 2021 Connected Consumer Series reflected the challenges retail (and society as a whole) have faced during the past year, but also the growing sense of optimism that is taking hold this year. 5 Social Advertising Trends for Retailers to Know in 2021: Featuring Under Armour. Retail CX Trends 2021: New CX for a New World.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2021

Years of transformation transpired in just a few months with rapid shifts in both consumer behaviors and merchant expectations for e-commerce. So after a year of such rapid transformation, what can we expect to see in 2021? And how will permanently altered consumer behaviors shape online payment preferences?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In the last two months alone, TikTok has rolled out dedicated “Shopping Tabs” for Shopify merchants, Twitter began a pilot of its “Shop Module,” and Pinterest made it possible for creators to “control the shopability of their content” by tagging products. There’s no time to waste, because consumers are already there.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Such a time of upheaval has led to a permanent, irreversible change in consumer behavior as shoppers embrace the convenience and security of ecommerce more readily. These are our predictions for retail in 2021. Consumer Behavior has Changed for Good. Consumer Behavior has Changed for Good.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The retail landscape is constantly changing, and there’s no doubt that the rise of online shopping has been revolutionary. This has led to the question as to whether online shopping may have reached its peak already. This has led to the question as to whether online shopping may have reached its peak already.

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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. Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2023

New research from Checkout Finance provider, Divido , has found that over a third (35%) of Christmas shoppers plan to make most of their purchases between now and Black Friday weekend. found that 98% of products that were on sale on Black Friday in 2021 were actually cheaper or the same price during other points in the year.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

“After more than two years of heavy online shopping, consumers are ready to get back to the sport of shopping.” ” 44 percent of customers plan to shop at mass merchants this year, compared to 42 percent in 2021. Getting Back Into the Sport of Shopping. by The NPD Group.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2021

Covid-19 hit the reset button on consumer behaviour. But it is not just the initial seismic shifts in consumer behaviour that have thrown down the gauntlet for retail. But it is not just the initial seismic shifts in consumer behaviour that have thrown down the gauntlet for retail. Shopping with purpose.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Keeping pace with consumer trends and changing behaviours is key to the success of retail operations, particularly when managing the impact of current global events on supply chains to ensure they’re able to consistently meet demand. . Three of six key trends identified in ASCG’s latest eBook research include: 1) Spread the cost.

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The number of consumers planning to shop online for the holidays fell from 85% last year to 80% this year, which is the largest ever shift favoring stores, according to the annual holiday purchase intentions survey from The NPD Group. In fact, 44% of consumers plan to shop at mass merchants this year, compared to 42% in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Walmart has planned more than 30 holiday-themed live shopping events for the 2021 season. In-video selling will be available on Walmart.com, MSN Shopping tab, TalkShop.live and all product partner sites included in the programming.

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M19 Retail

JULY 5, 2023

MIAMI, FLORIDA, July 5, 2023 – Mi9 Retail, a leading provider of Retail Software, is pleased to announce that the Aubuchon Company has successfully piloted Mi9 Store Self-Checkout in their hardware and home improvement stores. Mi9 Store Self-Checkout software uses intuitive and highly configurable UX to engage customers and process sales.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Zippin and Fujitsu Limited have formed a new partnership that makes Fujitsu an exclusive distributor of Zippin’s checkout-free solution in Japan. The partnership is designed to enable Fujitsu to build a new retail solution by September 2021. Additionally, Brazilian retailer Lojas Americanas S.A.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2021

Consumers are increasingly drawn to convent checkout experiences, from mobile POS and self-checkout to grab-and-go tech, and now even autonomous stores. AiFi shares that same passion and have been amazing partners in making this autonomous shopping experience come to life.”. Autonomous Retail Becoming a Global Phenomenon.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Things like ecommerce will soon eclipse brick-and-mortar, retail is facing an apocalypse or delivery to home will become the norm in grocery shopping. In the ChaseDesign Q1 Shopper Sentiment Survey, 85% of people said, “I plan to shop in physical stores more in 2022 than last year.” And 2021 was itself a record year for foot traffic.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

billion annually, and retailers looking to earn their business need to make their shopping experience as pleasant as it is for any other customer. “ 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

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. Simplifying Checkout In this case, “simplifying checkout” means embracing “self-checkout.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Service Merchandise was a bit more fun than today’s similar IKEA shopping experience because it carried more than mediocre DIY housewares and furniture. (No As the company expanded, it began to open showrooms nationwide, mostly in the vicinity of major shopping malls, which were in vogue in the 1970s. Don’t remember it?

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Independent Retailer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

2020 may have thrown us all for a loop, but consumers are excited to get out there and do their gift shopping in person. Independent Retailer has put together a survival guide to help indie retailers navigate the 2021 holiday season — Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, and everything in between. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to WWD , Ulta’s new store format will create a shopping environment that is easier for consumers to navigate, with the retailer transitioning from a model that organized brands according to price points and target consumers into a layout in which goods are arranged according to themes. “We Fairfax, Va.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

As 2020 came to a close, the company wanted to confirm that the changes made (and those being planned) set them up for success in 2021 and beyond. Descriptions included “miles above” any other store, the “gold standard in grocery shopping,” and “the best place to shop because of hygiene measures in place.” The Research.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2022

Constant interaction with friends on Instagram and TikTok is part of Generation Z’s lives, so there is no question that these social media channels influence what digital natives put in their shopping carts. Shopping with a PC or smartphone only ranks second and third in the PwC study. Shopping Must be Rapid and Streamlined.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

alone in 2021 and has the potential to double in the next three to five years. Denise Leonhard: Retailers have to go to all these different channels now, much more than they used to, and it’s not just about the products themselves — consumers are also looking for that seamless payment experience with the brands they trust.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One variation of Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere function on The Independent ‘s site. It makes it very easy for services and publishers like The Independent to open up their own shops with the complete inventory, but without actually holding that inventory.”. IndyBest’s centralized shopping section.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2022

The findings in BigCommerce’s 2022 ANZ State of Ecommerce Report give valuable insights into what aspects of online shopping matter to consumers. What are consumers saying about their cart experiences? Combining high shipping cost with failing to disclose the cost early in checkout is a recipe for disaster.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2021

In fact, it’s evolved from a futuristic sci-fi concept to a safe option for shoppers to do their daily grocery shopping. As a result, retailers had to move quickly to implement social distancing mandates in stores to make their customers feel as safe as possible while shopping. The pandemic made the traditional guessing game difficult.

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I Vend

MARCH 14, 2023

Retailers who want to set themselves apart are integrating more human and personal touchpoints into the shopping experience, increasing engagement, loyalty and sales. Yet in fact, the backlash to lockdown is that many of the consumers who were forced online are now desperate to get back to human-based and personal shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2022

The beauty retailer recently announced its plans to open more standalone stores and beauty shop-in-shops at Target and by adding Return Bars to locations, it will be able to boost store traffic, streamline the returns process and help reduce logistical costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2021

In March 2021, U.S. retail sales surged 9.8% , thanks to a third stimulus check and the gradual relaunch of in-store shopping. But don’t expect consumers to abandon the digital shopping experiences they relied on during the pandemic. 4 Solutions for Digitizing the In-Store Shopping Experience.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For the first time in its history, MAPIC – the international retail property market – will host a shop in its exhibition area, result of a partnership between Etam and Retail Reload, where ‘the best of tomorrow’s technologies’ will be unveiled. Pay using a mobile checkout.

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