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2023: The Year of Customer Retention? Retail Tech Predictions

Retail Assist

Metaverse mania made headlines in 2022, most notably amongst the luxury fashion houses and big global brands looking to find new DTC opportunities and build loyalty amongst Gen Z and Alpha. Marketplaces enjoyed a surge in 2022 and this trend is likely to continue. Greenwashing took centre stage in 2022.

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How Ecommerce Retailers Can Prepare Now for Back-to-School 2022

Retail TouchPoints

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. One step many retailers can take right away is to eliminate the need for customers to key in the same information more than once.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 8-29-2022

Hyken

(Atlanta Small Business Network) The biggest marketing cost most small businesses face is that of acquiring new customers. Few business owners, however, pay anywhere near as much attention to customer retention, even though keeping an existing customer for longer is a far easier way to grow revenue.

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Retailer Lessons from iGaming Companies

Retail TouchPoints

If an iGaming company doesn’t respond to a gamer’s quirks, likes or dislikes in a matter of moments, that “customer” will move to an iGaming company that does respond. Additionally, while most retail shoppers might spend minutes to hours shopping, iGamers can be much more engaged, with that engagement continuing to grow.

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Bed Bath & Beyond to Close 150 Stores, Cut 20% of Workforce

Retail TouchPoints

27, 2022, has announced a combination of store closures and layoffs designed to reduce its SG&A (selling, general and administrative) expenses by $250 million in fiscal 2022. As of May 28, 2022, the retailer operated a total of 955 stores, including 769 Bed Bath & Beyond locations.

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Deloitte Shares Loyalty Trends and Best Practices for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

To drive customer retention and loyalty, most brands and retailers continue to rely on purchase discounts ( 77% ) and loyalty program points ( 61% ), according to Retail TouchPoints research. Deloitte found that consumer interest in co-branded credit cards dropped 11% between 2022 and 2023. A major reason for this drop?

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Bed Bath & Beyond Posts 28% Sales Decrease, Prepares for Further Drops as it Right-Sizes Inventory

Retail TouchPoints

Bed Bath & Beyond continued to struggle in Q2 2022 with the retailer’s sales falling 28% in the quarter, which ended Aug. The company is aiming to weather recent cuts and net losses, which reached $366 million for Q2 2022, with the help of a $375 million loan it took out in late August. million members within months of its launch.