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? Make sure there are no surprises with your shipping costs. A growing security concern. It’s a common experience for all of us.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

However, not to be discouraged, they gathered their learnings from their first entrepreneurial endeavour and went on to officially launch Safely in 2021. In May, the company plans to launch a multi-use, patent-pending product on its direct-to-consumer site for pre-order.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Merchants in particular had to quickly shift from in-store sales to online and learn how to accept payments digitally. million applications to start new businesses through September 2021. million applications to start new businesses through September 2021. These can all be categorized as customer service-type chargebacks.

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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. Give Back-to-School Shoppers Alternative Payment Options. Streamline Your Checkout Process for Busy Parents and Students.

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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. Today, every one in five purchases is made online, largely due to changing consumer habits in the wake of lockdowns and other restrictions. Customers don’t just want to buy a product — they want an experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Amazon: the Consumer-First Platform. Amazon has completely upleveled what a high quality ecommerce experience looks like for consumers. A business model that was only possible with their unparalleled investment in the systems and shipping, fulfillment and supply chain infrastructure to support it. behind Amazon.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All of these retailers succeed by building hype around the launch, priming their loyal customers to place their order as soon as the product or service is released. Consumers are left disappointed, feeling cheated and let down. This surge of reseller abuse can have a negative impact on the business-consumer relationship.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that). The return to offices and social events is inspiring consumers to level up their wardrobes and focus more on apparel and footwear.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Outfits like GoPuff, Gorillas and 1520 took the grocery market by storm in 2021, offering a limited menu of consumables, delivered to your door in an incredible 30 minutes or less (and commanding multi-billion dollar valuations in the process.) Merchandise assortments will shrink dramatically.

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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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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. Automated processes of payments and order fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The report found that increased labor costs and shaky consumer confidence are impacting holiday hiring plans, with retailers forecast to add a total of 410,000 seasonal jobs this season. Holiday hiring was also down year-over-year in 2022, with employers adding 519,400 jobs, a 26% decline from 2021.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

For many SME retailers, the thought of scaling their businesses to enter new markets has many perceived barriers, particularly if you’re managing multiple roles within your business from stock procurement to marketing, quality control and customer services. Simplifying the schemes available.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. Consumers in every age bracket are in fraudsters’ sights.

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A1 Retail

JULY 2, 2021

The global ecommerce market is expected to continue to grow in 2021, illustrating that there is a strong a market for cross-border ecommerce. This trend is fueled by online shoppers willing to purchase goods outside of their country’s borders, so long as the process is smooth, and reliable. Compliance is Key.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

We speak with Yoox Net-a-Porter’s APAC general manager Natalie Lee about the resilience of luxury spending amidst an economic downturn, the importance of localisation, personalisation and incredible customer service, and how the company is using technology to improve the way it operates.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Harvey Nichols has announced the launch of an innovative new luxury resale service in partnership with Reflaunt. 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.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

So, what’s in store for retail in 2021 and beyond? Let’s look at four key forecasts: Continued rise of digital Shift in the role of bricks-and-mortar Increased value of personalised experiences Greater influence of young consumers. Today, consumers are more willing to share their personal information for a more curated experience.

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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. Traditional retailers with digital commerce operations compete head-to-head with online retailers for demanding customers. Holding on to customers is a high priority.

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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.,

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2022

Shopee opened for business as a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) marketplace in the first quarter of 2015 and evolved into a hybrid B2C/C2C business model that by late 2019 was growing fast. Its revenue growth hit 160 per cent in 2020 and 136 per cent in 2021, which translated into an increase in dollar terms from US$835 million to US$5.1

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a result, many retailers must move beyond manual processes to calculate their sales tax obligations. Retailers are faced with the task of creating immersive shopper journeys within their brick-and-mortar stores, while at the same time reassuring skittish consumers that the experience is safe for them.

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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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Independent Retailer

APRIL 19, 2022

billion worth of products were sold globally during the two-day event in 2021, a staggering 1,144 percent increase on its inception in 2015. Small and medium sized businesses voraciously competing for market share also saw a 100 percent year-on-year sales increase, feeding the demand of bargain-hunting consumers. An unprecedented $11.2

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 5, 2022

The recent ‘lunchflation’ trend has been confirmed to be real by new research undertaken by payment provider Square. Square’s researchers analyzed the sales data of popular lunchtime meals across the United States to understand how much consumers can expect to pay post-pandemic. in March 2021 to $10.32

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2022

Co-founder and co-CEO Kirsten Kore says the business is in the “right place at the right time” to capitalise on consumers’ growing interest in sustainable alternatives to fast fashion, such as rental. According to FMI, global online clothing rental sales are expected to grow 11 per cent CAGR between 2021 and 2031.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With only two months left of 2021, retailers should already be looking ahead to the new year for the newest trends, technology, marketing tactics, products, and solutions for improving their business. Meet Consumers Where They Want to Shop. “I Crypto Payments Help Deliver a Competitive Advantage.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It is more important than ever for retailers to be well prepared for Peak 2021, remaining agile and fleet of foot to react to what the market throws at them while meeting consumer demand at its point of origin, says Sophie Wilson at Astound Commerce. Sophie Wilson at Astound Commerce.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 5, 2023

Retailers have been running around tirelessly trying to keep up with consumer demands and the drastic shifts in the economy. Supply chain, inventory, and shipping challenges remain. . Because consumers currently have unlimited options when buying online, their expectations are at an all-time high. Online-Only to Physical.

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Small Biz Trends

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A chargeback happens when a payment is reversed by the customer’s bank. It’s called chargeback fraud when bad actors cheat this process. They happen due to processing errors, accidental duplicate charges, and charges for canceled subscriptions. What Rules Govern the Chargeback Process? There are three types.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Consumers are now reacting to that and replenishing a lot of the things that they didn’t spend on before,” said Joseph Nemia, Head of Asset-Based Lending at TD Bank in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. What does the consumer want?” They want faster service. asked Nemia. They want a convenient shopping experience.

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Rangeme

JANUARY 29, 2024

This direct to consumer relationship puts your business in a unique position to be hit with a variety of lawsuits, regardless if an accident was your fault. Product-related Accidents Consumer products sent 12.7 The difference is it covers accidents caused by your business and its operations, not the products.

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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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Independent Retailer

JUNE 17, 2021

Preparing to launch in the summer of 2021, Lowkler is a platform that will actively promote purchases from local merchants while also offering a level of variety and convenience for consumers, similar to other major players such as Amazon or Walmart. A New Movement to Support the Local Economy. How It Works.

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