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Resellers vs. Retailers: How to Handle the Bot Problem

Retail TouchPoints

Occasionally, brands will advertise special releases on items like sneakers or jackets, other times it can be furniture or a once-in-a-lifetime experience like VIP tickets to meet your favorite artist. Last Crumb even drops limited amounts of special-flavored cookies. . How Resellers Use Bots to Their Advantage.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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First impressions count: why cardboard packaging has a big future in retail

Inside Retail

Get it right, and it is effectively free advertising that money cannot buy.” Adding value through repurposing Another recent trend in packaging that is gaining pace is creating ways for consumers to repurpose product packaging rather than just dropping it into recycling bins. So this is an incredibly valuable opportunity to wow people.

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Google Doesn’t Care if it Sells Products, but it Cares a Lot About Attracting Shoppers. Here’s Why.

Retail TouchPoints

That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7 In return Google gets to aggregate all that inventory , which inevitably drives more traffic and makes its core advertising business that much more attractive. Product Sales May Not Matter, but Advertising Sales Matter a Lot. Advertising is, of course, the crux of all of this.

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7 Tips to Aid Your Business Growth & Increase Revenue

Wiser

The way that you market and advertise can attract new customers and help improve your relationships with current ones, which in turn will boost your overall profits. By selling additional or more expensive products to customers you were already getting sales from, you generate an immediate increase in the revenue already being accounted for.

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Policing Your Brand on Online Marketplaces: an Intellectual Property Guide for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Indeed, there are millions of resellers on Amazon, Ebay and the like accounting for a significant portion of the total retail sales on these websites. For example, a product may not arrive in an expected time frame, it may arrive damaged due to insufficient packaging, or even the wrong product may have been shipped.

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5 Holiday Trends to Watch Include Rise of ‘Couch Commerce,’ Curbside Pickup

Retail TouchPoints

RetailNext found that Black Friday store traffic dropped by 48% year over year, with jewelry (-53.5%), footwear (-52.8%) and apparel (-50.2%) seeing the most significant drops. Up to 40% of online sales on Black Friday were through smartphones and these devices also accounted for the majority — 60% — of all site visits.