Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It The result is a much lower barrier of entry for merchants looking to capitalize on Google’s massive reach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

However, unchecked abuse of returns policies can put a merchant out of business: 54% of the merchants surveyed in a study conducted on behalf of Forter indicated that they lost more than $5 million in revenue each year due to returns abuse. Processing legitimate returns can negatively impact a retailer’s bottom line.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These models can be optimized for multiple objectives like driving more revenue per order, increasing long-term satisfaction, compelling the user to return more often to the website, incentivizing the customer to sign up for subscriptions or premium services and more. Chatbots for customer service. Fraud detection.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

this year alone, representing approximately 21% of the total women’s apparel market. Products that are sized 18 and above and available in the UK only account for 14% of the total market. If you look at this process, there’s a lack of relatability,” Orschell noted. billion in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

Apparel, beauty, health and wellness were the biggest beneficiaries at that time. Twitter Shops enables merchants to showcase up to 50 products on their Twitter profile. And for consumers: Discovery of new products and services. But then, if your brand is doing DTC via your branded website, this process is already in place).

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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 fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

We refer to these as Merchant-driven organizations. One way that OTB funds can be managed is by categories, such as women’s wear in the apparel department. At home, the gift budget may need to be significantly higher in December than in January to account for holidays. Decide at which level the budget will be set.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The company was acquired by Adjmi Apparel Group in 2019, and Mangione has been there since the beginning (he even served as a product model in the early days). Additionally, this approach opens up the Alexa ecosystem to all merchants, even those that don’t sell on Amazon. This is Drew Brees,’” explained Mangione.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon). Shoppers are more willing to accept a longer wait for apparel, footwear, fitness and work supplies, with ‘fast’ delivery averaging 2.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

Hence a sports apparel store might notice fewer transactional searches such as “women’s running leggings” and more purely informational searches such as “fitness benefits of running.” Much of what we do, including how we work, play and buy goods and services, has shifted massively during the pandemic. Don’t sack your agencies.

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Store Growers

JUNE 11, 2018

“I just got a mail from Google saying they’re suspending my Merchant Account got suspended!” I had tried to give some tips, but now her Google Merchant account got suspended. Grab our free Google Shopping checklist to guide you through the rest of the process so you can start selling on Google Shopping in no time!

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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.

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Store Growers

MAY 4, 2023

For example, GTINs can be added as a product attribute in Google Shopping – this improves many Google services, including: Providing more relevant matches for product queries; Quickly identifying counterfeit products or otherwise illegitimate offers, etc. You can use the GS1 service known as GEPIR to find out who is the original GTIN holder.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

And because those wholesale relationships were so central to Natori’s business, losing or seeing a significant pullback from even one account would have been a big blow. New extensions via licensing into categories such as footwear, medical scrubs, pet apparel and children’s fill out the expanded product offering customers can find online.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

I would say it is the most challenging [situation] we’ve faced, and unlike apparel, which you can air freight, in the furniture industry, you’ve actually got to get it in containers and ship it because they’re bulky goods. Our view and the view of our merchants is that 2023 is probably when we will see it stabilise. It was drastic.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was easy for Forever 21 to capture the hearts and minds of young consumers looking for trendy apparel. Commenting on the growth of Shein TechCrunch wrote : “[Shein] manufactures in China as many apparel retailers do. After Forever 21 opened its first store in 1984 in the United States fast fashion started to gain in popularity.

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Retail Times

MARCH 30, 2021

Many causes of stockouts can be prevented by taking steps to better understand your business and products, and by refining your store’s processes. Such discrepancies can lead to merchants mistakenly thinking that they have an item in stock when they don’t, so they end up re-ordering the wrong products or quantities. Learn More.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

3:26] And of particular note, and I know we’ll talk about this more, they’ve seen a significant uptick in use of Buy Now, Pay Later services, and they’ve seen deeper discounting than we saw last year. billion consumers are shaping shopping trends.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What can be done to optimize shelf conditions such as availability, planogram compliance, display compliance, and more? Casey Berns, as I said, is the associate director of shopper insights and category advisory services at the Clorox company. 2: Planogram Compliance. Tom (continued): The next one is planogram compliance.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It was a rigorous process. Jason: [3:54] That that is awesome I’m going to assume the one slight negative is you get some good news like that you get all those those post cooking on LinkedIn and I’m assuming, every vendor under the planet has I read your news and is now pitching you for something.

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Store Growers

JUNE 9, 2023

Product Description: Take Advantage This is another important attribute that should be populated for all your products, otherwise Google Merchant Center will send you a warning. Ensure Price Compliance, Rounding, and Guidelines. Make sure your price is in compliance with ISO 4217 and in the target country’s currency.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Very profitable, doing really well you’ve got a smaller ad business super profitable doing really well growing rapidly AWS the cloud component now merchant services which is essentially the monetization of the, Center asset you had to build for the first piece. Scot: [36:22] Yeah yes Father they’re not doing well.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

9:39] In the same way it made sense for Amazon to rent a WS capacity to others and you know provide some of these other services it’s a way to monetize their delivery Network and their fulfillment Network so I think it’s super smart. Jason: [8:43] Yeah I generally agree I’m not confident that it’s I’m sure.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2021

While initiatives such as the 15 Percent Pledge have been rolled out to improve transparency and accountability in the retail world, many companies have spent the last year looking inward and ensuring that their customer-facing messaging and experiences mirror the internal company culture. For us it was it was focus, focus, focus.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

your Share account so when your chair count goes up it puts a natural pressure downward pressure on your EPS number. [5:44] what happens is in many brokerage accounts you can’t buy a fractional shares so. We could put all your apparel you want to sell in a bag and they’ll take it and.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A few other interesting tidbits from the ESW consumer study: Apparel is the top category for cross-border ecommerce across all age groups. Millennials account for nearly half ( 47% ) of respondents who had spent more than $500 in international online purchases in the past year, followed by Gen X ( 27% ) and Gen Z ( 15% ).

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

A lot of people are using it for customer service and really improving that. 56:16] And, you know, Xi’an is really largely focused on apparel. Scot : Amazon relaunches Alexa on a native LLM Temu falters as people realize it’s wish 2.0 I think that’s wrong.

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Store Growers

MAY 1, 2019

This means that you’re missing critical links in addressing the buyer process. Notes: data from 14,197 US-based WordStream client accounts in all verticals (representing over $200 million in aggregate Google Ads spend) who were advertising on Google’s Search and Display networks between August 2017 and January 2018. Automotive.

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

Last Updated on July 3, 2023 Ecommerce merchants are no strangers to using Google Merchant Center. This powerful platform lets merchants manage, modify, and adjust their ecommerce shops across Google’s various services, such as Google Shopping, Ads, My Business, etc. First, log in to Google Merchant Center.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Scot: [8:17] Cool so you you were a e-commerce entrepreneur so you’ve done that then you did software-as-a-service so you get the check that off the box and then I saw on LinkedIn you’ve also been working with a turbo host so that’s actually getting into my world of cars now tell me tell me how you got into that one.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

The more reasons Amazon has for people that join Prime the more money they make on this whole ecosystem of services around Prime and it’s. Approved and and this one will have to go through that process as well a minor fun fact there. It’s one of their biggest competitive advantages versus other.

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Store Growers

JUNE 29, 2023

In essence, product feed optimization is the process of making changes to the data in your product feed, to get better results from your Google Ads campaigns. That means you need to fix any products that are flagged as “ Disapproved items ” inside of Google Merchant Center. What is product feed optimization?

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

Soon, merchants everywhere began to experience what many thought could only happen in third-world economies and banana republics – panic buying, empty shelves and bottomless backlogs to fill them. But in the process also opened global consumer markets to risks that would make the cotton collapse of 1861 look like a picnic.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space. Matt: [18:53] No no that I left before any of those kind of process integration initiatives occurred. And we wound up. [29:43]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 28, 2021

By some accounts, these firms have cumulatively raised over $1B in capitol, and are rapidly acquiring brands. 3:16] Salesforce Effectiveness pricing products for fitting customer service. But we felt the content was valuable enough to publish the episode anyway.].

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

RetailRazor: Amazon has been getting hit w/an endless series of media articles about their private label development at the expense of other merchants on the platform. – Dept Stores private label apparel. Nationwide cold chain one hour delivery services so if you need to store something cold and then deliver it.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

That that sort of visual video interface and you know it’s it’s on on a HIPAA compliant version of AWS which they have a lot of HIPAA compliance services on AWS now. 15:03] Many marketplaces have that that Clause Amazon famously has that cause I wasn’t aware.

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