Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Online shoppers want variety – and they want it for everything, including their payment options. Offering more payment methods has been shown to increase conversion rates on fashion websites, but many retailers are wary of accepting alternative payment methods as they come with new vulnerabilities and fraud challenges.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2023

from Prime Day 2021, while 1P sales increased 6.1% , according to Capitol One Research. Importantly, sellers must use FBA, Fulfilled by Amazon, to participate.) To access the deal, shoppers must be Prime members and use the Buy with Prime option at checkout. Also, Amazon gets more happy Prime members.

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365 Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Fashion brands are pivoting to offer new, value-add delivery services and improved post-purchase experiences to enhance sales, encourage customer loyalty and protect margins, the latest data from parcelLab , the leading operations experience platform, reveals.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

The retailer will still offer its free-to-join Target Circle loyalty program and plans to enhance it by providing its 100 million+ members with access to automatic deals applied at checkout. Walmart debuted its Walmart+ program in September 2020, followed by Kroger ’s Boost program in November 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

[Update from 3/6/2024] Over the next decade, Target plans to build more than 300 new stores and upgrade the vast majority of its brick-and-mortar fleet, with projects ranging from full remodels to adding Ulta Beauty locations, upgrading fixtures and supporting same-day services.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

In mid-2021 rumors also surfaced of plans for large-footprint department stores , although Amazon hasn’t formally announced anything along these lines. Amazon said associates will also be key in providing customer service, managing back-of-house operations and helping customers check out.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 25, 2023

According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), retailers lost $112 billion due to shrink in 2022, up from nearly $94 billion in 2021. Seven in 10 retailers say the pressure is mounting to improve the efficiency and expense of managing online orders, returns, and the fulfillment process.

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Indigo 9 Digital

AUGUST 2, 2022

In the United States Amazon has made the most significant advances in creating tech enabled retail stores with its Just Walk Out technology that allows customers to skip the checkout. True to form Hema stores also double as fulfillment centres for Hema’s online grocery orders. As of March 2021 Hema had 257 stores. Scan and go.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2022

Covid-19 changed the way we purchase products and services. We have found new ways to buy our favourite brand or our groceries, not only to fulfil our basic needs but often as an antidote to boredom. In Australia, new payment methods are making online shopping, especially transactions on social media, faster and easier.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The agenda for the virtual 2021 Retail Innovation Conference , taking place Nov. Brick-and-mortar locations are still essential parts of the shopper journey, but they need to be reconfigured to accommodate both shopper discovery and functions like flexible store-based fulfillment. 17 from 1:20 to 2:10 p.m. 17 from 12 to 12:30 p.m.

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Rangeme

AUGUST 3, 2021

Let’s look at 2021’s top grocery tech trends and how they’re reinventing global grocery. February 1, 2021. March 29, 2021. “[O]nline May 27, 2021. June 2, 2021. March 25, 2021. US Click and Collect in 2020 and 2021. March 24, 2021. April 7, 2021. March 29, 2021. billion vs. $95.8

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CJ Retail Solutions

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Retail Displays in 2021 – COVID Trends & Tips. Physical screens, usually transparent, have been erected in self-service POS stations, checkouts and security areas, and where deli counters have reopened, some form of screening has been included. These will no doubt continue through 2021.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. During the pandemic, BOPIS retail fulfillment options kept businesses running while limiting person-to-person contact – which was essential during the pandemic. Payment, return, and exchange policies. What is BOPIS?

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — Buoyed by the recent boom in omnichannel retailing, Instacart is redoubling its efforts to cement a central role in the marketplace, extending existing relationships with retail partners, establishing new ones, and expanding the scope of activities to include services that directly touch what goes on inside the store.

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Mass Relators

JULY 28, 2022

billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter is excluded, net sales increased 10% compared with the second quarter of 2021. billion included in non-operating expenses from the company’s common stock investment in Rivian Automotive Inc. The company added that when the $3.6

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Episode 251 is our annual predictions episode for 2021 and a recap of our 2020 predictions. Installment Payments heat up – At least one company is acquired (Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, QuadPay, Sizzle) Yes (IPO’s). 2021 Predictions. Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. 2020 Predictions Recap.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the ecommerce wars heat up, BigCommerce is making a name for itself as one of the top facilitators of digital trade, alongside competitors such as Shopify, Adobe Commerce and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. How do I make sure I’m talking to my shoppers wherever they are?’. And then analytics is the other piece; how do you measure it all?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Have a simple checkout process. Powerful marketing initiatives and detailed product pages don’t mean anything if the buyer bails because the checkout process is too complicated. Simple and easy checkout processes are needed to seal the deal. Make customer service a priority. Be mobile-friendly.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

It connects, on a centralised and measurable platform, several touchpoints and interactions a customer has with the brand or business: payments, rewards, inventory, delivery options, product return, supply chain, fulfilment options, and more. it operates in silos and unconnected platforms. No more lines at checkouts.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Scot: [8:17] Cool so you you were a e-commerce entrepreneur so you’ve done that then you did software-as-a-service so you get the check that off the box and then I saw on LinkedIn you’ve also been working with a turbo host so that’s actually getting into my world of cars now tell me tell me how you got into that one.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. consumers say they have used a buy now, pay later service, according to a recent study from The Ascent, a Motley Fool service. BNPL fulfills a need that previously wasn’t being met,” said Sharp. In fact, 50% of U.S

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I Vend

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are our predictions on the tech trends that will shape retail in 2021. Cloud-based POS systems process and store transaction data online while an on-premise POS system stores data locally on the retailers store server. It makes the entire process a lot simpler, making it easier to setup and manage for retailers.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

million, FY Merchant Solutions revenue grew 116% to $2B Shopify Expands Its Checkout System to Facebook and Instagram. Episode 254 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, February 19th, 2021. Amazon news: Amazon acquires Seltz, a Shopify competitor. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

This month you’ve seen all these news articles about Amazon actually having too much warehouse space too much what they call fulfillment center space and how they’re literally trying to sublease space to other people that they may have over-invested, as e-commerce starts to slow down and if you cook to the this next slide. [8:15]

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ShipBob is a third party logistics provider that offers e-commerce fulfillment for thousands of brands. Casey Armstrong ( @CaseyA ) is CMO at ShipBob, a third party logistics provider that offers e-commerce fulfillment for thousands of brands. A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Key Topics: Declining macro economics First quarter 1P sales were down year-over-year for the first time in two decades, as it had to comp against a very strong Q1 2021 which was elevated by the pandemic. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details. AWS getting a strong boost from the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We went through a process of intense reopening over about eight weeks from mid-May to mid-July, which has since continued at a slower pace,” said Jordi Martin-Consuegra, EVP, Chief Administrative Officer and Deputy CEO at Hudson in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. The company is now operating approximately half of its locations.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2021

Episode 266 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday June 11, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 266 being recorded on Thursday June 10th 2021 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

Amazon is building Micro Fulfillment Centers to deliver fast-moving grocery & convenience SKUs in under 45mins. Ted: will headless commerce take off in 2021? Episode 259 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday April 8, 2021. A hundred and forty thousand square foot micro fulfillment centers.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [25:55] Well I mean a number of things so maybe just super high level what’s exciting to me like obviously a lot of this information about the business was not, publicly available so in the process of going public in issuing S1 they suddenly reveal a lot of things and they reveal things about.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

more than 20 21 largely because 2021. So it’s an area where companies are looking to save money very quickly because you’re not locked into certainty or anything like that like you would, be with some software as a service platforms. Was a like pretty astronomical year but but to put things in perspective.

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