Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. The ease of online shopping also gives consumers the ability to comparison shop more quickly, showing them more options in less time.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

There’s a lot of COVID effect in those numbers, but the trajectory is clear — consumers want to shop online, for everything. Even pre-COVID, so much of the beginning, top-of-funnel car-buying exercises already happened online,” said Katie Currall, VP and Account Manager at Material in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Wiser

MAY 30, 2018

With competitors just a click away, and comparison shopping engines making it easier than ever for consumers to find the lowest price, having that competitive intelligence on hand and taking action accordingly is a requirement. . Lastly, seasonality must be taken into account to make the most of the high seasons for certain items.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to understand how to take full advantage of this new technology, we will first explain what demand forecasting actually is, the most common methods of demand forecasting in retail, key constraints that need to be accounted for, and modern examples of accurate demand forecasting. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2021

While it’s easy to rationalize cart abandonment as a standard practice, it is much more than a modern-day version of window shopping. Many factors can contribute to a consumer’s decision to abandon a full shopping cart before checking out. Asking consumers to create a new account can certainly cause some of this hesitation.

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