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Opinion: An Unvarnished Review of the Smart Cart Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

The Editors’ Perspectives column offers insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. This month Retail TouchPoints has been exploring the state of autonomous checkout experiences in our series From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out.

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From China to India, how the world’s retail markets stack up: report

Inside Retail

China is the world’s largest retail market, accounting for almost 50 per cent of global retail transactions. Despite sales remaining below the pre-pandemic level and weak consumer sentiment, retail growth is expected to reach 5 per cent from 2022 to 2027. Estimates suggest China’s social commerce market enjoyed a 40.25

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Digitized In-Store Shopping Experiences are the Future of Retail Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

In March 2021, U.S. retail sales surged 9.8% , thanks to a third stimulus check and the gradual relaunch of in-store shopping. As more and more people get vaccinated, they will return to brick-and-mortar stores in even greater numbers, and that means retailers need to start preparing for an influx of foot traffic.

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2021: The Year of Social Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

In fact, some major retailers reported double-digit growth in ecommerce sales during Q2, right at the outbreak of the pandemic. With the growth of buy online, pick up in-store and expedited shipping options, consumers experienced firsthand the ease of digital shopping versus going to the store to make a purchase. In fact, Smartly.io

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Don’t Shop Around on Sustainability: Carbon Labels Deliver the Goods

Retail TouchPoints

A starting point was the United Nations Climate Change Conference that took place in Glasgow in November 2021. In February 2021, Unilever announced that it was working to introduce carbon labeling to 30,000 of its products. It’s not just global brands that are embracing carbon labeling, either.

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Amazon Remains Cheapest Place to Shop Even as Inflation Drives up Prices, but Walmart’s Closing in

Retail TouchPoints

Supply chain snarls, delivery delays and inflation just might make the 2021 holiday shopping season one of the most expensive and logistically challenging ever. And yet it looks like consumers are still willing to spend — overall retail sales in October were up 1.7% (seasonally adjusted from September), and up 16.3%

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Promotions after the upheaval

365 Retail

Retailers hoping for decent returns from their promotions investment this year will need a much more detailed picture of what’s actually happened as they go into peak, says Robin Coles, Managing Director EMEA at XCCommerce. Online shopping grew as much in eight weeks as it did in 10 years, according to McKinsey.