Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Shoppers are returning to stores, again. And 2021 was itself a record year for foot traffic. It’s also why retailers are spending billions on new store openings, up 13% versus 2021. This changes how retailers and CPGs think about sales of impulse items (candy, chips, beverages, magazines, etc.)

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2022

Annalect’s latest Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM) analysis 1 took a deep dive into the world of Aussie retail and it’s borne out a lot of the behaviour I describe above. Locally, the retail industry sustained substantial growth throughout the first pandemic affected year (2020-2021). per-cent lift in return on investment.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sephora’s return to the UK retail scene has been strategic and impactful. The beauty giant initially exited the UK market in 2005 but made a strong comeback in 2021 through the acquisition of Feelunique, subsequently rebranding and relaunching the site in October 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2021

The consumer buying behaviors retail marketers all once knew to be true experienced a seismic shift. The question now is: what do these new “pandemic personas” look like, and how can retail marketers cater to their new needs to set benchmarks for a successful 2021? Newly-Online Nelly.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the latest data from Australia Post, more than four in five households shopped online in early 2021 – an all-time high that’s been rising steadily since the global pandemic first sent people to online channels in record numbers. According to one recent survey from ShipStation, 66% of consumers prefer contactless returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

With an eye on what’s going on in the global retail market, brands must also pay close attention to today’s trendsetters, especially Gen Z consumers. The data-centric brands that get personalization right will be rewarded with appreciative customers who will return again and again. The Gen Z Factor.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Meanwhile, forward thinkers see the new landscape and pivot in time to steal market share from those too slow to adapt. The retail bubble explained). Furthermore, these tools can dynamically adjust forecasts and alert retailers of changing trends before any human notices. How did we get here?

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite this, retailers still saw success from the big shopping weekend, as purchases were higher this year than in 2021. This led to increased spending in certain areas,” Deb Gabor, CEO of Sol Marketing , said. Retailers focused on driving repeat purchases, not just attracting first-time shoppers. Higher Spending.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many people forced out of the labor market by COVID have been slow to return, making it difficult for retailers to fill positions ranging from cashiers and other store associates to warehouse workers and truck drivers. Then there’s the state of flux in the retail market itself.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 8, 2021

What do the latest retail statistics tell us about retailing in 2021? We have assembled all the numbers you need, including store operations, shopper behaviors, how retailers market their businesses, and much more. Retail Statistics: The Big Picture. The retail market size is continuously growing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

While the latter may be true, excess inventory also has a silver lining of hidden pathways to optimizing excess inventory that lead straight to your bottom line through distribution in the off-price retail market. The emergence of off-price retail has changed the industry landscape. Viewing Off-Price As A Partner.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Entering 2021, retailers are still looking to beef up their ecommerce strategy to get this trend to stick. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix. In fact, Smartly.io Corinne Demadis is the VP, U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2021

Retargeting consumers via ads has been at the front lines of retail marketing for a while now. in spring 2021, gives online visitors the choice of which ads they will allow to target them. However, privacy issues have forced tech giants Apple and Google to make major changes that prevent surreptitious tracking of users.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

FedEx will launch FedEx Consolidated Returns, a solution designed to provide an easy ecommerce returns option that retailers can make available to shoppers, in early 2023. FedEx Consolidated Returns will be facilitated through supply chain services offered by FedEx Logistics and FedEx Office. of all U.S.

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Retail Adventures

JULY 1, 2020

Keep going and add events for each month of 2021. Make Sure Your Return Policy is Competitive. If every one of your competitors accepts returns and exchanges but your policy screams NO! If you don’t have a return policy here’s a good place to start: “Returns and exchanges gladly accepted within days.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Undeterred, FamilyMart returned just a few months later, but four years on it only has 130 stores, all in Ho Chi Minh City and neighbouring areas of Vung Tau and Binh Duong. Between between 2013 and 2018, the country’s retail market was growing at about 11 per cent each year – massive cumulative growth for any retail market in the world.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 3, 2023

between its 2017/18 and 2021/22. GlobalData senior data analyst Matt Walton says that the retailer has been “caught in a pincer movement” on both price and design. That will take some time and we’re in a very unforgiving retail market,” he says. It also made a £35.9m The flaws are structural.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2021

products, combined with the sheer size of the Chinese market, make the potential hard to ignore : “It’s an opportunity for Western brands to find a faster-growing market than the one they’re currently operating in. billion in 2021, making up 37.4% The return rates on product are in the single digits.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 3, 2023

between 2017/18 and 2021/22. GlobalData senior data analyst Matt Walton says that the retailer has been “caught in a pincer movement” on both price and design. That will take some time and we’re in a very unforgiving retail market,” he says. It also made a £35.9m The flaws are structural.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

KZ: In Australia, we already have a [large] share of the retail market, but the US is a huge market and opportunity for us. We also donated $US550,000 in 2021, to various global charities that many of our customers care about. And we audited 100 per cent of our tier-one factories to ensure worker safety.

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Mass Relators

MAY 25, 2021

. – The retail industry is now doing better than expected after a year in which stores, offices and schools shut down across the country, according to The NPD Group. Compared to last year, discretionary retail sales revenue in the U.S grew 17% from January 1 through May 8, 2021, the NPD Group said. Growth in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“[Marketers that have thrived during the pandemic] know their old beliefs about customer preferences — and by extension, how they connect with their customers — are less relevant. They] are committed to making a wholesale shift to adapt everything they do — insight, data, engagement, responsiveness.”.

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Rangeme

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

September 14, 2021. September 14, 2021. While shifting consumer loyalty could represent a market threat to incumbent category leaders, “This is a huge opportunity for emerging brands,” said Jared Kligerman, Co-Founder, Wander Nut Butters. September 14, 2021. September 14, 2021. Marketing Charts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2021

The windows at the new NYC LEGO flagship await their big unveiling June 25, 2021. And that’s the point, according to Shian-Li Tsang, LEGO Group’s Head of Retail Marketing for the Americas, who said the time customers spend in the store is “invaluable” even if they don’t make a purchase. Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images).

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2021

After nearly 18 months of seismic changes and Olympics-caliber pivots, retailers are beginning to take a breath and examine what’s happened to the industry — and even more important, what’s going to be most vital moving forward. One of those is a desire for more meaningful, purposeful experiences.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Every year the Christmas retail marketing blitz seems to start earlier and earlier, and in Britain, we love nothing more than a good grumble about it. We sigh when online sales and email marketing campaigns start targeting us months before we’ve pulled together our shopping lists. However, 2021 looks set to be the exception.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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. Robin Coles, Managing Director EMEA at XCCommerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

With our Editors Perspectives columns, you’ll get insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. billion in 2021 retail shrink could be attributed to ORC.

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Wiser

AUGUST 25, 2023

Dan Ray, Director of Customer Success at Wiser and one of the early founders of ShelfSpace, a retail execution platform that Wiser acquired in 2020. And also, there’s Bruce Nagle, VP of Market Development and former founder of RW3, a second retail execution platform acquired by Wiser in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2021

currently Amazon captures just 1% of the worldwide retail market. Despite all the talk of the rise of ecommerce, most retail in the U.S. after Walmart), and it far surpasses the big box retailer if one takes into account the additional 1.8 31, 2021 — an average of 7,400 every minute. 31, 2021, U.S.

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