Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

In its third annual Brand Protection Report , Amazon highlighted the success of its ongoing efforts to fight counterfeit products and said that 2022 saw more criminal referrals and industry partnerships than ever before at the company. The campaigns reached more than 70 million consumers in the U.S. “We UK, EU and China.

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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). Mastercard Spending Data Reveals 4 Key Takeaways for Holiday 2022. Following are recaps of some of the most pertinent presentations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

We’ve all heard that today’s empowered consumer demands seamless and consistent experiences, but new research from CI&T indicates that these expectations are higher than ever. consumers of all ages, races and genders, as well as an assessment of digital retail strategies across various product categories.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And, with the collapse of soft-plastic recycling provider RedCycle in 2022 , many brands have been left with few places to turn. Baracchi said the business is targeting Australian consumers who want to recycle, but view the process as too hard. However, consumer trust in the recycling space hasn’t yet recovered.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2022 holiday season showed slow, but steady, improvement for the retail industry. Adobe recorded full-year sales growth of 6.1% , largely driven by heavy spending early in 2022 that tapered off as inflation took its toll. As economic headwinds curbed spending capacity, online retail grew in the U.S. Global digital sales topped $1.1

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

With a whole new danger hitting consumers – inflation – will the same be true? In 2022, the retail sector is performing much better than expected. Analysts believe that 2022 will remain a good year, despite economic headwinds. The big test for retail will, of course, be Christmas 2022. The good news for retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

So what changes should we expect to see in 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.) Here’s my take: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The apparel industry’s enormous global environmental impact has made it a primary focus of sustainability efforts, and consumers — or at least a significant portion of them — want to do their part. and globally, we need a message that will resonate with more consumers, not just young urbanites.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2021

We all know COVID has forever changed the consumer, but in what ways? Which issues should retailers prioritize as they head into holiday and, most importantly, 2022? GWI’s Vice President of Trends and Research, Virna Sekuj, sits down with Alicia Esposito to dig into the firm’s latest consumer research.

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APRIL 5, 2022

Spring 2022 holidays will see a return closer to pre-pandemic normalcy than 2021, according to the Spring Holidays 2022 report from Information Resources, Inc. More than 25% of consumers report that they’ll exceed last year’s Easter or Passover grocery spending.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2022

The NRF is forecasting retail sales growth of 6% to 8% in 2022 for a total ranging from $4.86 The association is looking ahead to strong job growth and declining unemployment in 2022, but full-year GDP growth is forecast to slow to approximately 3.5% Inflation Hitting Lower-Income Consumers Hardest. trillion to $4.95

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For the past few years, consumers have been more than willing to dip into their bursting savings accounts – thanks in large part to the pandemic – to spend on Black Friday. per cent up on 2022. The post How FOMO drives consumers and retailers to participate in Black Friday appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

After a 23-year career with Amazon , Dave Clark, CEO of the Worldwide Consumer, has resigned, effective July 1. In an online note, Clark shared that he had mulled leaving the company for some time but wanted to position Amazon’s consumer business teams for success. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

At the end of 2021, the editors of Retail TouchPoints took a stab at predicting what would happen in ecommerce in 2022. 2022 certainly isn’t turning out how anyone thought it would. 2022 certainly isn’t turning out how anyone thought it would. Not to toot our own horn, but we hit the nail on the head with this one.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a first indication of what to expect as we enter the heart of the 2022 holiday season, digital Black Friday sales hit record highs despite inflationary pressures, topping $9.1 Electronics were a major growth driver for the shopping holiday, with sales up 221% compared to the average day in October 2022, according to Adobe.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2021

So, what can we expect to see in 2022 for social platforms? The number of Australian consumers who made purchases through social media in 2020 was 5.3 This marketing technique will also allow business owners to understand the consumer behavior that can the be used in future marketing. Bite-sized content.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

New to this year’s event is the Consumer Product Showcase , offering SMB brands the opportunity to show off innovative customer-facing products. Retail media networks on the rise: “Throughout 2022, it seemed as though a new retail media network launched every day,” Reda wrote. Taking place January 15-16 from 10 a.m.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 6, 2022

Global architecture, planning and design firm CallisonRTKL has released its Forecast 2022 report – looking at the accelerators, disruptors, and constants shaping the built retail environment in the year to come. Consumers care less now for these stories than they do for convenience. Tempur-Pedic (New York City).

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2022

Against daunting odds, the 2022 Na tional Retail Federation Big Show once again brought retailers and suppliers face to face IRL from Jan. That’s been essential to keeping the economy and our industry moving forward — and now that consumers know what we’re capable of, they expect it.”. 16-18 at New York City’s Javits Center.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

billion in 2022, according to Statista. Desire Company CEO Eric Sheinkop discussed the survey results with Retail TouchPoints : Retail TouchPoints (RTP): What’s the significance of the fact that so many consumers doubt influencers even use the products they’re recommending? The problem isn’t just with influencers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

From ordering groceries to meeting new people, the convenience and speed with which we can do almost anything is extraordinary — and it isn’t something consumers are going to give up. Consumers now want the best of both worlds, and this collective desire has led to an inevitable blurring of the lines between physical and digital retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Gift cards remain a popular purchase among consumers, but they also provide openings for scammers and criminals. In conjunction with the upcoming National Consumer Protection Week, the Retail Gift Card Association (RGCA) is promoting a public service announcement to inform consumers about steps toward secure use.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2022

With 2022 as the first year of MAPIC’s fully-fledged return post-pandemic, the atmosphere has been optimistic and energetic, with people looking forward to the experience of in-person retail and interactions. Attractive to younger generations, leisure can help to bring physical commerce back to consumers who strayed from it during COVID.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2022

And 2022 is shaping up to be a big coming out party for NFTs for marketers. These NFTs also allow brands to create virtual communities populated by the consumers who own them. As a result, more consumers will start to understand what NFTs are. Now we are moving into a new phase: NFT Utility. Here’s how and why exactly.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, consumers are still spending, the labor market remains tight, and the Adobe Digital Price Index recently posted an overall 40-month low, an encouraging sign for online shoppers: Adobe reported that online prices fell for 11 out of 18 tracked product categories on an annual basis. But there are possible headwinds on the horizon.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Ask any retailer or consumer and they’ll agree on this point: ecommerce returns are a problem — albeit for diametrically opposed reasons. Meanwhile, more than three in four (78%) consumers say they’ve had an inconvenient online returns experience recently, per Pitney Bowes latest BOXpoll survey. consumers love the USPS.

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Miller Zell

JANUARY 25, 2022

Our Miller Zell Digital Solutions Team attended the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2022 in Las Vegas on a mission to seek out inspiration on four levels: Environmental design using technology. Content strategy for brands with product showcases. Storytelling using emerging technology.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

At Microsoft, we break down the metaverse i nto three strategies: consumer, enterprise, and industrial. Consumer metaverse. Branded worlds & pop-up experiences for consumers to shop and interact with other customers. Your invite | Live Digital Event | Metaverse: Strategies for Retail Success – November 30, 2022.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its count of business entries and exits for the 2022-2023 financial year on Tuesday, revealing the formation of 406,365 businesses, or 66,000 fewer than in 2021-2022. per cent in 2021-2022, outlining the post-lockdown boom in consumer spending. per cent of businesses.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One recent study by ChannelAdvisor and Dynata surveyed over 1000 Australian consumers about their current shopping habits and how they expect these habits to change in the near future. In fact, many of these Australian shoppers expect their online shopping to increase in 2022. More Australian consumers are using multiple platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2022

With the potential for new COVID variants, record levels of inflation and evolving consumer preferences, 2022 retail design will change more in the next year than it has in the past decade. Consumers experience brands and purchase differently than they did a decade ago. Retail is full of opportunities for brands in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2022

Clark’s last day as CEO of the Worldwide Consumer business at Amazon will be July 1. 1, 2022 and join the company’s Board at the same. I am excited to partner with the team to architect and build a technology-powered future enabling the transparent and seamless movement of goods from raw material to end consumers anywhere in the world.”

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 7, 2022

MAPIC is launching its Retail Village concept for MAPIC 2022. The new consumer, including new generations such as Millennials and Generation Z-ers, is making increasingly niche and specialist choices in their consumption habits and becoming less mainstream: from veganism to the circular economy and reducing waste.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

As inflation and rising interest rates start to bite and reduce consumers’ spending capacity and confidence, Australian e-commerce sales declined sharply in July. . This shows that consumers are researching online to find the product they are after before they head to a retail store to buy it. Representing 19.3 Search engines.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 27, 2021

There is a dizzying amount of change taking place right now in the world of marketing, from huge shifts in consumer behavior to tracking and attribution upheavals as third-party cookies go by the wayside. Want more tips and tools to make 2022 a banner year? And who’s talking to consumers mulling those purchases?

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With sales almost entirely online, the retailer generated about US$23 billion in global revenue in 2022, according to research firm Coresight. Shein accounted for nearly one-fifth of the global fast-fashion market in 2022, outpacing Zara and H&M. Shein has a huge valuation and is primed for an IPO. Shein introduced 1.5

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