Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

With 2022 in contention to be the year things “finally, actually” return to “normal” (if we even remember what that looked like!), Where consumers live has a lot to do with which returns process they prefer. So how can one aspect of ecommerce be so universally reviled — and yet be poised to grow ?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

After several years of declines and a host of executive switch-ups (particularly in the CEO role), Wish began a major overhaul of its business (still underway) and launched a marketing blitz to “reintroduce” itself to consumers in August 2022. Doubling down on merchants outside of China. Reducing shopping and shipping friction.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Like many other publications, The Indy (as it’s known by readers) has been working with brands and retailers for years through affiliate marketing relationships, primarily on its reviews section IndyBest. Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing. Then the merchant takes over for fulfillment, logistics and so on.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

The 2022 Connected Consumer Series featured industry experts, thought leaders and practitioners prepared to share their wisdom with their peers, and spotlighted powerful examples from FILA, Lidl, Patagonia and other businesses. Why the Non-Purchaser Might be Your Most Important Customer. Tactical apparel retailer 5.11

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The UK’s largest independent builder’s merchant, MKM Building Supplies , recognized that the building supplies industry was changing, with 45% of its current customer base set to retire within the next five years. One BigCommerce merchant saw conversion rates jump from 52.9% after deploying both of these tactics.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What were your biggest goals going into writing the book, and how did your approach evolve as you embarked on the writing process? Del Rey: The Marc Lore era at Walmart, if nothing else, brought a new sense of urgency to Walmart when it comes to new online features and services, and the incubation of new business ideas.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The service will be the latest addition to the FedEx Returns portfolio, which also includes printer-less and package-less return options at more than 10,000 locations nationwide. FedEx Consolidated Returns will be facilitated through supply chain services offered by FedEx Logistics and FedEx Office.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

With the pandemic ushering a wave of traditionally brick-and-mortar merchants online since 2020, the chances of being targeted by scammers is at an all-time high. In 2022, it is no longer an option whether businesses can choose to protect against fraud, but a responsibility. Scalable Order Fulfillment and Automation.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With only two months left of 2021, retailers should already be looking ahead to the new year for the newest trends, technology, marketing tactics, products, and solutions for improving their business. Crypto Payments Help Deliver a Competitive Advantage. First, up to 40 percent of customers that pay with crypto are new to the merchant.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. consumers say they have used a buy now, pay later service, according to a recent study from The Ascent, a Motley Fool service. BNPL fulfills a need that previously wasn’t being met,” said Sharp. In fact, 50% of U.S

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The competition to attract sellers has reached a boiling point, and it couldn’t come at a better time for these merchants, which for years have struggled with the rising cost of doing business on the main U.S. There’s fulfillment costs and advertising costs. marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

The very thing that helped it grow so large, so quickly — shockingly cheap products — was also what caused the platform to lose favor with shoppers when those products sometimes turned out to be cheaply made or deceptively marketed and took weeks to arrive. Merchant quality.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, planning for a successful 2022 peak season is essential – now more than ever. But the peak season sales market is a competitive one, so getting ahead of the game and understanding your customer’s wants and needs is critical. Leveraging 3PL services to drive efficiencies is key.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Daraz focuses on innovating our services and adjusting our operations according to our markets’ demands; this includes optimising our distribution network in our markets,” Ahmed Tanveer, chief operating officer for Daraz Pakistan, told Inside Retail. Diversification is key. Unforeseen circumstances.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

McKinsey & Co stated in mid-2022 that social commerce comprised more than 13 per cent of China’s total e-commerce sales. TikTok Shop is currently available in the UK and a number of Southeast Asian markets. Twitter Shops enables merchants to showcase up to 50 products on their Twitter profile. trillion ($1.9

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now it’s here: first launched in the UK and several Asian markets, TikTok Shop was quietly made available in the U.S. in November 2022. He also said that TikTok “have been really great partners” throughout the process as he and his team encounter challenges or have feedback.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For example, Lazada will be sharing its best practices pertaining to platform terms of services, IPR infringement reporting and removal mechanisms, and IPR awareness building amongst its merchants,” Ang explained. per cent in 2022 and is expected to hit 63.3 Current state of affairs. There also has been a dark side to this.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Walmart mandated that its suppliers put it on products by 2022, which has made a big impact on RFID adoption. And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. alongside a large QR code. A true win-win!

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Mass Relators

MARCH 31, 2024

She has held roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as vice president, human resources for DG’s retail organization since 2021 and was named to the Mass Market Retailers Most Influential Women list in 2023. She was named to the Mass Market Retailers Most Influential Women lists in 2022 and 2024.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

2022 Predictions. Jason : NFTs, Web 3, Metaverse, and Ultrafast delivery services are all overhyped and don’t deliver meaningful commerce revenue in 2022. Shein exceeds $30B in annual sales, disrupting apparel industry Adoption of BNPL services slows down to less than 15% CAGR in 2022. Transcript.

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Retail Minded

JANUARY 21, 2022

And, while the current retail industry all too often has frustrating experiences to manage – including empty store shelves, hiring instability, and rising inflation – I believe that with great challenges also come great opportunities and NRF 2022 certainly reinforced this sentiment for me this year. billion market right now.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2022

The net impact of these decisions will result in an estimated $40 million cost reduction in the run rate of the business on an annualized basis beginning in Q3 2022. Rupp also worked at Microsoft and Amazon , where she led Fulfillment by Amazon and launched Prime Day. VS&Co.’s Christine Rupp has been named Chief Customer Officer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“It was a really exciting high-growth time in India’s ecommerce journey, and it was a fantastic, enormous learning experience for me in ecommerce, supply chain, merchandising, digital marketing, all of that, but I hit a midlife crisis,” Pany said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “I The Democratization of Distribution.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

With algorithms and AI now “deciding” what ads each person sees, and delivering them through an increasingly splintered media landscape, events like the Super Bowl are one of the few places where marketers still get the opportunity to speak to a mass audience. So how did marketers do this year? As always, it was a mixed bag.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Episode 291 is a hot take on Amazon Q1 2022 earnings. Amazon released their Q1 earnings for 2022 on Thursday April 29th. Episode 291 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday April 29, 2022. A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 31, 2021

trillion by 2022, as more and more retailers and entrepreneurs start moving online. As consumers move online, vendors must process increased demand of online orders more quickly – and that can lead to mistakes. The outbreak of Covid-19 has turned the online sales ecosystem upside down, with a monumental upturn in sales.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 27, 2022

On the other, generous return policies are now a competitive differentiator — so merchants whose return policies are too strict could miss out on sales or see fewer returning customers. Offer free or discounted return shipping when possible, and streamline the process with print-from-home labels to reduce friction for buyers.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

Facebook Retail Media Networks Q1 2022 US Department of commerce data and trends Audience questions (including buy now pay later). Episode 292 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday June 8, 2022. If you’d like to follow along, the audience could see this deck during the discussion: JAS_Zenith Download. Transcript.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

merchants, up 14.2% Over the past two years, retailers have been introduced to a vast array of tools and services to help support this volume — ranging from marketplaces to quick-add software packages, to new but often disparate systems — the options can seem overwhelming. Consumers flocked online for essential purchases, adding $102.08

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Retail Geek

MARCH 18, 2022

ShipBob is a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We discuss ShipBob’s origin story, how the e-commerce fulfillment industry has evolved, as well as the challenges and implications of Amazon and Shopify’s various fulfillment initiatives.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 8, 2022

In episode 290 we recap all the key trends and news from the ShopTalk 2022 tradeshow. Episode 290 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday April 8, 2022. Fulfilling orders from stores helping stores either use us as their own last mile service and even helping. [15:28] Transcript. Scot Wingo.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Episode 294 is a recap of Amazon’s earnings for Q2 2022. Episode 294 is a breakdown of Amazon’s Q2 2022 earnings. Episode 294 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday July 31, 2022. Transcript. Digital all in attendance. Scot: [3:17] Nice nicer than what was the was there a topic to the event or what.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 3, 2023

billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2023, an 11% increase compared to the same period in 2022 when net sales stood at $121.2 billion, up by 12% compared to the second quarter of 2022. per diluted share, reported in the second quarter of 2022. billion recorded from the same investment in the second quarter of 2022.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 28, 2022

billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2022, up 7% versus the prior-year period, or 9% when the impact of changing foreign exchange rates is excluded. Today, as we’re no longer chasing physical or staffing capacity, our teams are squarely focused on improving productivity and cost efficiencies throughout our fulfillment network.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 31, 2022

Casey has been a passionate advocate for our sellers and led the work to define and implement our seller value proposition, which has led to strong growth in our third-party marketplace and Walmart Fulfillment Services. The post Management changes announced by Walmart appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers. business.”.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

So it’s been a very dry IPO market for startups and thus of interior backed investors. And you know a lot of people have been rooming that instacart would be out there there’s a couple other companies in this kind of unicorn Stratosphere stripe is another one that we cover a lot on the show from the payments world.

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