Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Yves Saint Laurent partnered with China Duty Free Group to bring its #Claimyourlove campaign to Hainan on China’s Valentine’s Day 2021, launching a sweat-proof, all-weather foundation at the tropical paradise. Brands do not even need an offline presence at CDF to open online brand boutiques within the WeChat store.

Social Commerce 130

Social Commerce Advertising Apparel Accounting 130

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

TikTok is undoubtedly at the forefront of technological innovation and more advanced, engaging content. Therefore, discovery commerce is the only way to cut through the noise and win customer spend in an increasingly crowded ecommerce market. Opportunities are already in full flow on TikTok and Instagram. Influencer Marketing.

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Consumer Accounting Customer Experience Marketing 246

Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2021

Covid-19 hit the reset button on consumer behaviour. But it is not just the initial seismic shifts in consumer behaviour that have thrown down the gauntlet for retail. But it is not just the initial seismic shifts in consumer behaviour that have thrown down the gauntlet for retail. The answer is deceptively simple.

Consumer 200

Consumer Social Commerce Shopping Returns 200

Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2022

After two years of quarantining, it’s no wonder consumers are now expert digital shoppers. In fact, 55 per cent of AU consumers are shopping online more frequently than before the pandemic. Plus, mobile allows them to be “always-on” and now accounts for 63 per cent of all online purchases. . The modern consumer journey.

Consumer 147

Consumer Checkout Social Commerce Shipping 147

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Unfortunately, unexpected situations can occur at any moment, like a global pandemic that reduces foot traffic to a trickle, or the shift of consumer demand online from offline channels. Consumers Want Digital Interactions. The growing demand for interactive digital content is at an all-time high.

Consumer 262

Consumer Shopping Shipping Accounting 262

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

14, for an inside look at one brand that has found the secret to livestream success.]. “If As consumers’ viewing behaviors are shifting to short-form video, we are shifting our focus to Reels on Facebook and Instagram,” explained the company in a blog post. Dissecting the reasons why live shopping isn’t taking off on social in the U.S.

Social Commerce 270

Social Commerce Shopping Advertising Consumer 270

Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2024

In an era marked by economic flux and shifting consumer preferences, the global retail landscape stands at a pivotal juncture, ripe with both challenges and opportunities. China is the world’s largest retail market, accounting for almost 50 per cent of global retail transactions. It was valued at $3.8

Retail Marketing 130

Retail Marketing Marketing Social Commerce Consumer 130

Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

Online scams have evolved so much since the days of the Nigerian Prince scam, that it is hard for consumers to differentiate between what is real and what is fake, and increasingly, established retailers are bearing the brunt of this. However, it is also a feeding ground for cyber criminals who prey on Australians’ eagerness for a bargain.”

Payment Services 260

Payment Services Accounting Advertising Shopping 260

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Brands and retailers are feeling mounting pressure — from consumers, shareholders and even their boards — to be more inclusive. But it’s still true that only a small fraction of the fashion retail market has put tactical plans into place to support this significant consumer base. Inclusion Definitions Expanding Beyond Sizing.

Consumer 290

Consumer Merchant Services Markdowns Fulfillment 290

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2022

The digital innovation fund was first announced at the retailer’s Investor Day event in October 2021, and since then the fund has already made a number of investments in start-ups including Haut.ai , Adeptmind , Revea , LUUM and ReStyle.

Social Commerce 286

Social Commerce Accounting Marketing Planning 286

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Understanding consumer behaviors will be key to building (or rebuilding) a successful retail business in a post-pandemic world. Data will fuel the shift to digital, according to expert contributors to the recent Retail TouchPoints (RTP) webinar, Analyzing The Shift To Digital From 7,000 Marketers And 1B Consumers Worldwide.

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Marketing Consumer Checkout Customer Experience 273

Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Aussie-born global fintech Airwallex – which last month launched its State of Cross-border eCommerce: Key Trends of 2024 Report – a whopping 54 per cent of global consumers are expected to increase their international online spending over the next six to 12 months. To get started with Airwallex, sign up for a free account now.

Merchant Services 130

Merchant Services Payment Services Social Commerce Checkout 130

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Despite global economic concerns, consumer spending has remained robust throughout 2023, and retailers are looking forward to a blockbuster Q4 full of holiday spending. eMarketer expects retail mobile commerce sales to account for 43.4% eMarketer expects retail mobile commerce sales to account for 43.4%

Payment Services 248

Payment Services Social Commerce Accounting Customer Experience 248

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This year, over 102 million people will buy via social platforms in the US alone and by 2025, global sales via social commerce will exceed US$1.2 Among consumers – and not just Millennials – social commerce is gaining significant traction, growing three times as fast as overall e-commerce.

Social Commerce 130

Social Commerce Merchant Services Payment Services Fulfillment 130

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

Right now, retailers are selfishly positioning their customer journey to benefit their marketing efforts, not the end consumer. Ditch the Redirects The consumer path to purchase has undoubtably changed. Lean into Consumer Convenience Today’s consumer isn’t sitting down at a computer and making a concerted effort to shop online.

Social Commerce 231

Social Commerce Consumer Shopping Accounting 231

Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2023

Recent years have seen rapidly evolving changes in all areas of consumer behaviour and there is little doubt it will continue in terms of the products and services that people want, who they want them from, and where and when they want to access them. Rather than talking about what we do when we’re out there, it’s about how it makes us feel.”

Consumer 130

Consumer Shopping Outdoor Fashion 130

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

“It’s interesting that TikTok has allowed a ‘capital C’ corporation to be involved, but I think it stems from the fact that Barnes & Noble was the very first retailer to identify that #BookTok was a driving factor in book sales ,” said Jessica Brigman, Senior Account Executive at The Walt Disney Co. ’s The Back Story of #BookTok.

Social Commerce 266

Social Commerce Accounting Marketing Planning 266

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The Flipkart Group — India’s homegrown digital commerce conglomerate that is majority-owned by Walmart — has raised U.S. billion in fresh funding and is now valued at $37.6 The new funding is a major vote of confidence in the potential of digital commerce in India, still a relatively nascent market.

Wholesale 256

Wholesale Social Commerce Fashion Consumer 256

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A retailX panel of social media and influencer experts had a candid conversation about how influencers are driving the maturity of social commerce, which is expected to reach $36.09 Before rising in the influencer ranks with her account @NYCfitfam, she had approximately 20 years’ experience in public relations. “I

Social Commerce 270

Social Commerce Accounting Marketing Planning 270

Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

The world’s largest retailer shared expansive plans for the future of retail at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), focusing on adaptive retail strategies that encompass realms of customers, workforce and society. It’s essentially a ‘Virtual Try-On’ service that becomes a social experience.

Shopping 262

Shopping Payment Services Social Commerce Checkout 262

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To answer customers’ demands, business leaders must find the balance between adapting services to consumers’ digitally-driven shopping behaviors and staying true to the company’s strategy. The issue with this is that both retailers and customers have to have accounts set up in the same exchange platform.

Payment Services 331

Payment Services Checkout Telecommunications Social Commerce 331

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

Pinterest also is launching multi-feed support for Catalogs, a new feature that will help businesses easily upload their products in multiple product feeds within the same Pinterest Business account. Shopify merchants, as well as any retailer with a Pinterest business account, can now add up to 20 product feeds to their account.

Marketing 317

Marketing Accounting Advertising Consumer 317

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Social shopping is becoming more and more popular given the surge in social media usage and the ease of completing a transaction without ever leaving the app. It’s no surprise that social commerce sales are expected to reach $45.74 The Transformation of Search Consumers are searching a lot. billion in 2022.

Advertising 248

Advertising Social Commerce Consumer Fulfillment 248

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Although the eTailer has two very distinct target customers — the fashion-forward Millennial and the style-conscious 40-to-50-year-old consumer — there are core behaviors that transcend these distinctions and, ultimately, guide Olivela’s experience strategies. Olivela IRL successfully meets consumers’ content cravings.

Consumer 130

Consumer Beauty and Health Fashion Fulfillment 130

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Although the eTailer has two very distinct target customers — the fashion-forward Millennial and the style-conscious 40-to-50-year-old consumer — there are core behaviors that transcend these distinctions and, ultimately, guide Olivela’s experience strategies. Olivela IRL successfully meets consumers’ content cravings.

Consumer 130

Consumer Beauty and Health Fashion Fulfillment 130

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2021

accounted for $5 billion of Alibaba’s total $74.1 Editor’s Note: For a deeper look at the 11.11 Max Bissell, VP and General Manager of Hard Surface and Robotics at floorcare brand Bissell , which has participated in 11.11 Chinese Consumers are Unique, so your Strategy Should be Too. During last year’s 11-day 11.11

Merchant Services 278

Merchant Services Accounting Social Commerce Payment Services 278

Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

We are at the forefront of innovation with social commerce, enhanced retailing and emerging retailing. New and emerging technologies are needed to ride on these trends,” said Joshua Emblin, Territory Director, APAC, at Commercetools. . Interestingly, the 65+ demographic is particularly active on YouTube.

Social Commerce 130

Social Commerce Shopping Fulfillment Consumer 130

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For shoppers, paying for the items they want is a necessary evil at best and a complicated chore at worst (especially online). Leonhard: The interesting thing about PayPal and Venmo is that the overlap of our consumer bases is not one-to-one. We actually have tens of millions of people who just have Venmo accounts.

Merchant Services 322

Merchant Services Payment Services Checkout Finance 322

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2024

Ecommerce Growth with TikTok Today’s consumers have short attention spans and are constantly on the lookout for the next big thing in viral content. To make a splash on a platform like TikTok that caters to this kind of consumer behavior, you must become adept at creating content that quickly showcases why your product deserves to go viral.

Checkout 248

Checkout Marketing Advertising Point of Sale 248

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This group has exploded since the expansion of the Amazon Affiliates Program, which allows for affiliation directly through a user’s existing social media account or blog and lets them earn a percentage of sales in exchange for promoting a product. Another subset of micro-influencers are deal-centric influencers.

Advertising 285

Advertising Accounting Marketing Promotions 285

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

The increase in social media usage, combined with a tandem increase in online purchasing, proved to be the push both consumers and brands needed to move into the burgeoning realm of social commerce. So what does it take to turn social media users from passive scrollers into active customers?

Payment Services 221

Payment Services Social Commerce Consumer Advertising 221

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since then, Starbucks Australia has continued to struggle to compete with local competitors, but now, 15 years later, it is collaborating with Australian tech start-up Phantm to deliver a different value proposition to the local market, which could win over consumers and sustain the retailer’s future down under.

Consumer 260

Consumer Marketing Accounting Social Commerce 260

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Remember what it was like to go shopping at the mall? You’d walk into a brick-and-mortar store, select your items from the aisles and check out at the sales counter. Today’s landscape is vastly different because consumers demand a more curated experience wherever and whenever they shop. Enter social commerce.

Social Commerce 277

Social Commerce Accounting Consumer Customer Experience 277

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2021

2020 could easily be considered a breakout year for social commerce. Consumers reported spending 45% more time on social media in Q4 2020, and orders coming from social-referred channels (including paid ads and organic posts) grew by 50% year over year, according to data from Salesforce.

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Beauty and Health Accounting Social Commerce Advertising 157

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The social-commerce app matches women with a contributor sharing a similar body type who can guide them on the best styles to suit their physical characteristics. More than 83,000 women from over 100 countries have downloaded the app, with the US, Australia, and the UK accounting for 70 per cent of users. Image: Supplied.

Fashion 246

Fashion Social Commerce Telecommunications Returns 246

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2021

Social commerce is a relatively new medium, but as retailers and social media platforms alike explore possible use cases and applications, it will significantly shape how both shoppers and businesses spend their time and money. The Physical Store and Social Commerce Can Enhance Each Other.

Social Commerce 256

Social Commerce Shopping Consumer Accounting 256

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2023

But Wells knows that to successfully acquire this coveted group of consumers while also retaining its incredibly loyal base of millennial shoppers, the brand can’t simply live in the past. When he returned to True Religion as creative director in late 2019, social media and the creator economy had reached a critical inflection point.

Fashion 269

Fashion Consumer Marketing Accounting 269