Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2021

People were shopping in stores and Black Friday, Cyber Monday were becoming successful sale events on those specific days. But people were starting to shop for Christmas around that time. In 2021, the festive period has continued to change. Consumers will continue shopping earlier. E-commerce was on a steady rise.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Books-A-Million will leverage its 231 stores to offer same- and next-day delivery using the white label Walmart GoLocal service, which Walmart introduced in August 2021. We’re eager to hear customer feedback and are excited to enhance the ecommerce shopping experience,” said Pete Zophy, SVP of Ecommerce at Books-A-Million in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

The Body Shop has gone beyond hair care, shower gels and hand soaps to include makeup in its product refill program, which prevented more than half a million plastic bottles from entering the environment in 2022 alone. stores in April 2022 , The Body Shop has stations in 50% of its U.S. footprint. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

ChaseDesign just finished our annual study of 1,000 shoppers to see what the latest insights are around online grocery shopping, specifically focused on which delivery methods are winning out pre, during and now post-COVID times. In 2011, less than 1% of grocery shopping was done online. COVID obviously changed that, almost overnight.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kroger has kicked off a multi-year agreement to have Gatik AI ’s autonomous box trucks transport products from the retailer’s Dallas customer fulfillment center to multiple retail locations in the area. for multi-city deployments of autonomous delivery vehicles in September 2021. and Louisiana since late 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Research from Google indicates that this holiday season will be more omnichannel in nature than any before it, with 64% of consumers saying that they plan to shop both online and in-store. This follows on a huge bump in omnichannel fulfillment options spurred by the pandemic and ongoing product shortages.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Items will be fulfilled from Sephora’s 500+ U.S. Customers can use either the DoorDash app or website, and members of the Sephora Beauty Insider loyalty program can earn points for these purchases by linking their account on the DoorDash app’s Sephora store page. Items from U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

In 2022, a National Retail Federation/Prosper Insights and Analytics survey indicated that 56% of consumers had started their BTS shopping by early July, with 81% planning to shop sales the week of July 11. Want to Expand Back-to-School Shopping Baskets? in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “I

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They are also increasing labor allocation for online purchase fulfillment (52%) and in-store/curbside pick-up (48%). Food retailers have absorbed this feedback and are making great strides to create both online and in-person shopping destinations that cater to shoppers’ evolving tastes.”.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Although the trend towards omnichannel fulfillment is not new, the pandemic changed many retailers’ business models almost overnight, and these changes are not going away. What is omnichannel order fulfillment in retail?

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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 TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment. Michaels’ CEO Ashley Buchanan first revealed plans for a marketplace in a February 2021 story in The Wall Street Journal. Michaels gained access to some of A.C.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But supply chain pressures and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the pandemic means that consumers are focusing less on how immersive and entertaining in-store shopping experiences are and more on how safe and efficient they are. Do you foresee one taking precedence over the other during the holiday season?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2024

The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience. And it’s not just helping consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Nordstrom will power the front-end digital customer experience — the Nordstrom.com Sports Fan Shop — while orders will be fulfilled and shipped by Fanatics. Macy’s launched a similar partnership with Fanatics in October 2021. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

Retail results for Q1 2021 have been promising so far, showing that the economy may finally be emerging from a long, slow year. Large retailers like Target and Walmart continued to thrive in Q1 2021 on the back of their large store footprints and strong omnichannel presence. ’ ” said Anderson. There will be demand.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

The new operating model will help each organization focus on their biggest growth opportunities while still working together to provide a seamless customer experience across both channels. The Bay kicked off its initial ecommerce expansion in April 2021 with the launch of the Hudson’s Bay Marketplace.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This holiday shopping season marked record numbers of online shoppers on Black Friday and the biggest online shopping day in US history on Cyber Monday. To better understand the challenges and future opportunities for retail and e-commerce leaders, Blue Yonder launched the Future of Fulfillment Research Report.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

When the pandemic took hold, Seattle-area Town & Country Markets (T&C) went to work ensuring their customers still felt safe and well-cared-for. 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. The Research. What We Learned.

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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. margin points when their customers’ journeys are not optimized, but when they are optimized, they can recover about 70% of that margin loss,” explained Buzek.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2021

RTP: As we move into 2021, what are some steps sellers and marketplaces should be taking to consolidate the gains they have made in 2020? Shapaker: Most important is to continue to offer a great experience for customers. Increasing marketing outreach to those new customers is important to help make them permanent customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an ecommerce boom that has set the stage for coming years by driving a heightened reliance on the convenience of online shopping. This surging demand has exposed fulfilment inefficiencies and sent retailers scrambling to power their delivery operations. ecommerce growth in decades.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 was a critical year for the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space. That is why in this new era of DTC, the big question is whether consumers will continue to spend their dollars on brands that have an ideology but lack a superior product and experience to back it up. “If Jackson: The metaverse is the wild west, to be sure.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 15, 2023

Just a decade ago, high streets and malls were awash with mobile phone shops with a seemingly endless number of places to peruse the latest Blackberry or Samsung Galaxy. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. As telco retailers look to become more experience-led, is this the end of the phone shop as we know it?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among its multiple impacts, COVID-19 accelerated an elongation of the holiday shopping season that was already underway. 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).

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With spur-of-the-moment “I’ll just run in to grab something” shopping trips becoming less frequent and online ordering on the rise, shoppers are making plans and orienting their schedules based on order delivery timelines to a degree that seemed unthinkable a year ago. Customers also expect retailers to communicate about the return process.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For that reason, market research provider Euromonitor International has identified resilience and adaptability as the two driving forces of consumer behavior in the coming months in its recent report, Top 10 Global Consumer Trends 2021. Here are five key takeaways: The 2021 Consumer is Craving Convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While people have been shopping online for decades, it’s important to recognize that warehouses, as we know them, are still operating and organized to replenish the stock in brick-and-mortar stores. Fulfilling online orders is more complex and requires a lot more labor than brick-and-mortar retail store stock replenishment.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

“As part of our ongoing RxEvolution, continuing to bring to life the ‘new Rite Aid’ is paramount — and that includes offering consumers exciting new ways to shop,” said Katie Finnegan, Chief Customer Experience and Ecommerce Officer at Rite Aid in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The company decided to invest in technology that would help it harness the power of data to improve its customer insights and the shopper experience. “At ” Like many retailers, Mejuri acquires and engages its customers from a diverse set of marketing channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Google.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

New technologies such as semantic vector search have made it possible to not only deliver what buyers are searching for but also fulfill their goals. If the website returns all of those results — no, ‘garlic’ is not the same as a ‘salmon fillet’ — you’re getting what you’re searching for and your goal is fulfilled. Here’s a scenario.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But clearly deal hunting is top-of-mind for older consumers: while 55% of Gen Z consumers said they plan to spend more on holiday shopping and celebrations, a mere 39% of millennial shoppers intend to do the same. Nearly half ( 48% ) of online shoppers said they have already purchased gifts (up from 31% of shoppers in 2021).

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

The surge in online shopping and finding alternative means to get goods to consumers (e.g. curbside pickup, turning entire stores into fulfillment centers) has left many retailers unprepared for this now new-normal, and has exposed their slow speed towards digital transformation. Several themes emerged, including: Retail in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

and $27 billion in 2021 and reached an estimated 11,800 retailers in 2022, according to data from the MJBiz Factbook. Now consumers expect omnichannel shopping options for cannabis just like they do for everything else. Cannabis is in growth mode: the industry posted sales between $24.5 Cannabis Demands Reflect Retail as a Whole.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2021

As consumers return to physical stores, features such as appointment setting and personalization will be the keys to remapping the customer experience. But COVID also revealed other opportunities to add to its roadmap, including appointment setting, curbside fulfillment and contactless payments. Touchless is here to stay.

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