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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

The ease of online shopping also gives consumers the ability to comparison shop more quickly, showing them more options in less time. This presents a dual shipping dilemma for businesses: how can they keep shipping costs on the business low, while also offering customer-friendly return policies? of total retail sales.

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Ecommerce with Flair: Digital Tools for a More Inspiring Online Experience

Retail TouchPoints

By 2025, mobile sales are expected to account for 44% of retail ecommerce in the U.S., Adding functions like a mini cart where a customer can add to and view items in their cart without being taken out of the shopping flow replicates the ease of in-person comparison shopping and increases the number of items in the cart.

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Cars, Wine, Trees — COVID-19 Proved Once and For All that You Can Sell Just About Anything Online

Retail TouchPoints

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. Overcoming Last Mile and Return Hurdles. We’re really trying to cut out that middleman, similar to how the mattress industry evolved.”.

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Why Pricing Optimization Is Required in Online Retail

Wiser

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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Are You Building Your Ecommerce Business Backwards?

Store Growers

It requires patience and persistence without knowing exactly when, or even if, you’ll see a return. We start out with a logo, theme, website, social media accounts, email newsletters, retargeting campaigns, etc. Comparison shopping engines like Google Shopping. Pitch them and ask them for referrals.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

BORIS (Buy Online Return In-Store): Concentrates on reverse logistics. Turning your storefronts into local return centers gives your business advantages over purely online competitors. Customers are able to view the item before purchase, minimizing returns. Payment, return, and exchange policies. How does BOPIS work?

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How to Forecast Demand in Retail (2020)

Retalon

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?