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

Retail TouchPoints

Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout. Digital wallets address both issues by storing card data for shoppers and by shielding it from retailers at checkout. Customers who can pay easily without security fears are more likely to complete checkout.

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Planning to sell online in the US? Here are some tactics to ensure success

Inside Retail

Localise your home page and checkout experience and invest in some marketing so you can start to assess demand. You need to really lean into understanding your customer and their value and create personalised experiences that minimise wasteful spending for you as a retailer and that also drive customer retention.”

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Loyalty strategies set to dominate the retail industry in 2024

Retail Gazette

The growing interest in loyalty programmes is no surprise given that customer retention and digital transformation are company leaders’ top two priorities. Minimize balance sheet liability : If customers can redeem points for discounts, then any issued points have to be accounted for on the balance sheet.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of January 29, 2024

Hyken

The study comes as some companies remove self-checkout machines and others adjust their self-checkout operations. My Comment: Perhaps you’ve experienced self-checkout at a grocery store or some other retailer. For certain customers, self-checkout still makes sense. Is this a failed experiment? CX doesn’t cost.

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10 Common Mistakes Cashiers Make

Small Biz Trends

Not only do they handle your business’ cash they also can impact customer retention and prevent fraud. While a well-trained cashier can offer a balanced cash drawer, shorter lines in the checkout aisle, and most importantly satisfied customers. 10 Common Errors that Cashiers Make and How Employees Can Avoid Them.

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No Longer Alternative: The Rapidly Approaching Future of Local Payment Methods

Retail Minded

Customer retention requires a well-balanced blend of gilt-edge experience and customization. While merchants cannot control offline challenges like supply chain disruption or last-mile delivery issues, they can (and must) shape the digital environment and ensure a seamless checkout process.

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Retail Consumer Behavior Patterns and Shifting Dynamics: The Future of Retail & Retail Trends

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Self-service check-ins and checkouts have become the new norm, saving time and money for retailers. You may want to consider creating a hashtag for people who want to tweet their latest photos or hire a social media influencer to promote your brands, customer stories, catalogs, new arrivals, etc.