Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. Loyalty Shifts to Value.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Jewelry and accessories retailer Claire’s is tapping into “drop” culture with its newest offering, a subscription box service called cDrop. Aimed at “fostering self-expression” among its core Gen Z demographic, each box retails for $30 and is shipped quarterly, with no ongoing commitment for customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2022

Our pilot with the innovative return platform reinforced the value simplified, in-person returns offer consumers and retailers alike,” said Kecia Steelman, COO of Ulta Beauty in a statement. “We’re We’re encouraged by the increased store traffic and in-store engagement the partnership drives.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the impacts of the most unique holiday in decades are still being felt: retailers should plan for continued shipping delays in the short term, and also continue to refine their omnichannel operations as they prepare for the rest of 2021. It changed consumer behavior and resulted in new buying habits.”

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

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Last Crumb even drops limited amounts of special-flavored cookies. . Consumers are left disappointed, feeling cheated and let down. In 2021, face coverings and masks from stars like Kanye West saw a 154% average resell price increase from $82 to $208. The merchant-consumer relationship is built on trust.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 ecommerce holiday shopping and shipping season is expected to eclipse years past. Regardless, these communications will be crucial to whether holiday customers return throughout 2021. Consumer Expectations are Higher. Nine out of 10 consumers expect proactive updates on the progress of their packages.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Forrester also notes that over the past few years, retailers focused heavily on their ecommerce business and in-store fulfillment; as a result, they found out the hard way that their legacy and outdated technology stack impacted their agility and ability to respond to changing consumer behavior. Retail is already changing.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Amazon on Thursday forecast a slowdown in sales growth for the holiday season, disappointing Wall Street and warning that inflation-wary consumers and businesses had less money to spend. Prior holiday quarter sales growth was 9 per cent in 2021 and 38 per cent in 2020. US consumer confidence did a U-turn in October.

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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. To meet demand and avoid supply chain-related shortages, some major retailers are bulking up their inventories now.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Consumer expectations have evolved in the digital age, and retailers are now offering a multitude of flexible order delivery methods such as “Buy online, pick up in-store”, “curbside pickup”, “order in store, deliver home” and more. So how can retailers offer these options to consumers while lowering their costs?

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 27, 2022

After the pandemic-driven surge in consumer demand that triggered a frenzy of shipping activity and skyrocketing prices, logistics and transportation companies are signaling a fast slowdown. Shipping and wholesale prices are plunging and orders are not being placed as often. . Disruptions in the Container Shipping Industry.

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Small Biz Trends

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And one of the best ways it makes these products available to small and medium online retailers like you is by offering drop shipping. And if you make your purchase during Super September (Sept 1- 30, 2021), you get an additional 10%-off. Currently there are more than 19 million Ready-To-Ship products with quick dispatch time.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

Consumers expect convenient, interactive shopping experiences, from online to in-store and everything in between. On the B2B side, Merrell is using 3D and AR tech to sell their products via digital showrooms, prior to manufacturing and shipping, to increase speed to market, reduce costs and lower their carbon footprint.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This removes the cost and complexity of shipping furniture pieces for photoshoots, which is particularly difficult right now due to supply chain issues, as well as the difficulty of getting all the necessary staff in the same place at the same time. Creating the virtual showrooms was a fairly intuitive process.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

For many independent retailers in the UK, 2020 hid a lot of the post-Brexit trading cracks as their domestic sales skyrocketed during periods of lockdown when consumers were forced to stay at home and took to shopping more online. There are rules in place as part of EU trade deals that allow you to recover customs costs – tariff free.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The 2021 Retail Strategy & Planning webinar series, now available on demand, brought together retailers, solution providers, practitioners and industry experts from firms including IDC, Alvarez & Marsal, WSL Strategic Retail and Cambridge Retail Advisors. Holiday 2021 and Preparing for 2022.

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Rangeme

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2021 Global Market: Fall Experience was a four-day virtual product discovery experience held October 18-22, facilitated by ECRM and powered by RangeMe. Plus, attendees got to join live educational sessions from top leaders and experts in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail industry. During the session Giving the U.S.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2021

While consumers have been fairly forgiving with the elongated wait times and uncertainty, given the situation we’ve all found ourselves in, that patience may be starting to wear thin. One way to do that is by having smaller warehouses that are closer to where your consumer is,” said Orenstein. The problem.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7

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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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Wiser

JUNE 5, 2023

A good transportation infrastructure helps reduce costs associated with delays while ensuring timely deliveries so that customers receive their orders on time and without damage to items shipped. When demand for an item suddenly spikes or drops, it can lead to cash flow issues, inventory shortages, and increased competition.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. The online platform came into existence in January of 2021. “We The brand is focused on making sneakers more accessible to consumers.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. The online platform came into existence in January of 2021. “We The brand is focused on making sneakers more accessible to consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers stuck at home have had the time to thin out their wardrobes and make room in the garage — along with strong financial incentives to turn their possessions into cash. With consumers seeking bargains from home, online secondhand is set to grow 69% between 2019 and 2021, while the broader retail sector is projected to shrink 15%.”.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Episode 276 is a Recap of GroceryShop 2021, new woes for Amazon FBA sellers, and industry news. Episode 276 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday September 24th, 2021. Scot: [21:05] Yeah yeah I didn’t get a shipping notification sometimes maybe it maybe it is coming earlier we’ll see. Transcript.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The good news is that Halloween retail expenditure continued to grow in 2021 to £607 million, is forecast to increase to £687 million this year , and is set to rise to a whopping £777m by 2023! Customers always love a discount, but, with so much competition, incentives need to go further than simple price drops. Free shipping.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“We’re not going to see the dramatic growth in imports we saw this time last year, but the fact that volumes aren’t falling is a clear sign of continued consumer demand,” NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said. from the volume of imports that moved through the ports in the first half of 2021.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

in 2021 on the back of strong growth in the prior year. Consumers love shopping online but what they really want is control. Be honest, before the pandemic weren’t you were part of the vast majority of consumers that had never tried curbside pickup? Consumers are looking for one stop shopping. More than 1.7

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Rangeme

APRIL 8, 2021

Welcome to consumer technology in the age of COVID, where tech gadgets of all kinds became an essential part of the way we lived, worked, learned, entertained and pretty much performed every other activity during 2020. Wellness has taken consumers way beyond Bluetooth headsets and fitness trackers. Take sleep, as an example.

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Independent Retailer

OCTOBER 31, 2022

That is a four-to-six percent increase from the 2021 season, with online retail sales growing 13-to-14 percent. Cubic Zirconia Beaded Circled Drop Earrings. Related articles: October Retail Industry Insights Retail Shipping Forecast for the 2022 Holiday Season Top Holiday Gifts to Fill Your Shelves. trillion this season.

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Rangeme

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the past few years, the subscription box market reached new heights in 2021, projecting more than $15 billion in sales. You will need to make sure that you have a good customer retention strategy in place to attract the consumers who received your products in a subscription box to become returning customers.

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365 Retail

MARCH 1, 2022

Brands to prioritise growth of sales on multiple online marketplaces: As brands look at ways to reach new audiences and increase sales, the use of online marketplaces will continue to grow and their popularity among consumers will see an uptick throughout the year. At the end of 2021, projected sales were estimated to reach nearly USD 5.0

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Driven by the explosive growth of ecommerce and shifting consumer preferences, the global cloud manufacturing market is expected to reach about $112 billion by 2024 , growing at an astounding 20 percent annually. With POD, as well, once the item(s) are produced, they are drop-shipped globally to the end consumer.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Retailers pulled off a successful 2021 holiday season despite the challenges posed by the omicron variant and ongoing supply chain issues. 24, 2021, according to data from Mastercard. 21, 2021, through Jan. drop in 2020. 21, 2021, through Jan. drop in 2020. “It’s Overall sales were up 8.5%

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365 Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Reflaunt’s mission is to build a world of positive consumption by bridging luxury fashion brands with leading second-hand marketplaces, encouraging consumers to extend the life of their pre-loved items through resale. Harvey Nichols has announced the launch of an innovative new luxury resale service in partnership with Reflaunt.

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