Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Without proper identification of the individuals behind transactions or new account openings, it’s difficult for retailers to tell the difference between good customers and bad actors, and therefore easier for fraudulent activity to slip through. Digital fraud can take many forms, with the most common being account takeover ( 29.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2024

Customers who have previously purchased books from Thriftbooks can log into their account and view their ‘SellBack Shelf,’ which will show how much Thriftbooks is offering (based on popularity and demand) to buy back books they’ve previously purchased. Sellers will receive a prepaid shipping label to send the books to ThriftBooks.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Supre, YD, and Mecca exhibited the most distinct Overall Online Store Experience for customers among all retailers ranked by the Online CX Index, Australias first and only online retailer performance platform powered by real data. Shoppers also appreciate the ability to choose their packaging, which adds a personal touch.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And in today’s day and age, shopping online has never been easier — with targeted ads, free shipping, free returns, stores built into Instagram or TikTok, logins saved on your browser and payment information saved on your devices. It’s a way to treat ourselves, and to indulge in a little luxury.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

ShipStation, the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-carrier e-commerce shipping solution, is launching a new feature designed to bring better savings to small businesses signed on to the service. The premise of ShipStation is that we cover all of a retailers’ shipping needs on one platform,” says Pope. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Revenues were down more than expected, decreasing 42% YoY to $78 million ; adjusted EBITDA was in line with expectations but still represented a loss of $66 million in the quarter; and monthly active users were down 48% to 12 million. “As The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2024

I wasn’t allowed to get involved in payment because there’s a gigantic business unit called Amazon payment that they wouldn’t let me get my hands [on]. In 2008 and 2009 we had a lot of customers from around the world knocking on our door wanting to purchase from us, however, we didn’t ship to [every] country.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. Scammers gather financial account information and government program ID numbers to take over accounts, divert funds and commit identity fraud. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Flash sales can help retailers boost revenue, attract new customers and enhance loyalty with existing customers. billion on Cyber Monday 2020 , while Singles Day in November 2021 in China drove $139 billion in sales for two of that country’s major online shopping platforms. Account takeover fraud trends pose additional risks.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

Harnessing the expertise of platforms such as Startshipit, together with our simple, reliable shipping solutions, can unlock significant opportunities.” Today, the brand is shipped to more than 190 countries and has a loyal following of fashionistas, thought leaders, and celebrities.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For instance, in 2019, Asos said it would begin deactivating the accounts of serial returners on its site. Some fashion brands, including Zara, J.Crew and Uniqlo , have begun charging for returns in order to claw back lost revenue and dissuade certain behaviors. Cutting Fraud to Claw Back Costs Retailers are pushing back.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

By using it, you can: reduce your reliance on a human workforce to do mundane and repetitive tasks, thereby leaving them to focus on more productive things, streamline your business processes by linking systems together, offer clients an excellent purchasing experience, and. Data Monitoring and Validation.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before the NotPetya attack rampaged through Europe in 2017, affecting companies including FedEx and shipping giant Maersk, few people would have thought a vulnerability in a piece of accounting software could create such devastation. Critical vulnerabilities can be found in unexpected places. Adopt a zero trust approach.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 6, 2022

Although it started much earlier, eCommerce took a new turn when amazon came up with its platform. Since then, many eCommerce platforms have been created and exhausted. Shopify is now one of the biggest eCommerce platforms in the world. In the same manner, you will set up payment methods and shipping zones.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Unified commerce is essentially the integration of all data-driven channels of retail – customer and product data from both in-store and online – on a consolidated platform. it operates in silos and unconnected platforms. Unified commerce enables the customer to purchase an item in-store and have it shipped home. Endless aisle.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fraudsters are getting more sophisticated and are using a variety of tactics, such as identity theft, chargeback fraud , “silent” fraud, account takeovers and “pharming,” complicating organizations’ ability to detect these incidents. Yet the reality is that by focusing on fraud first, companies are focusing on the wrong priority.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Companies of all sizes were affected by the pandemic, especially small- to mid-size businesses (SMBs). Merchants in particular had to quickly shift from in-store sales to online and learn how to accept payments digitally. million applications to start new businesses through September 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

Give Back-to-School Shoppers Alternative Payment Options. Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout. This alternative form of payment was popular with all age groups in the survey, although the reasons for its popularity seem to vary by generation.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Heartbroken by the disappearance of her cat, Filipino IT specialist and blogger Sophie* decided to use her Facebook Ads account to appeal to anyone in her local area who might have seen it. First, the bank account linked to her card was emptied of around $600. Typically she would spend PHP500-1000 per campaign (US$10-20).

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Small Biz Trends

APRIL 15, 2021

Besides having a brick-and-mortar shop, going online to offer your products and services comes with lots of opportunities for your business. An eCommerce platform is a software application that helps businesses sell products and services online. This means users don’t have to buy web hosting or install software anywhere.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Findstack records that affiliate marketing now accounts for more than 16 per cent of digital media revenue in the US and Canada and that around 80 per cent of brands have affiliate programs. The sourcing, warehousing shipping and transactional stages of the sale are all handled by a third party. An influencer of influencers?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

“They are at the cusp of all things digital, which drives us on everything, from payment options to search — and ultimately, from a merchandising platform standpoint. We also offer a dropship program, all driven through the platform. of orders, toward two -day or later windows, which account for 80%.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For retailers dealing with global customers and suppliers, the cost of international payments can significantly impact their bottom line. Every international dollar a business generates may be unnecessarily converted up to three times and attract fees at each conversion. These costs can quickly add up and take as much as 5.5

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

ABG stated in a March 4 filing that it lost out on $150 million in sales while it integrated Bolt’s platform. The suit is based on Bolt’s promise to provide its AllPass subscription service, which would have worked across all of ABG’s retail brands to allow shoppers to receive free shipping and product discounts.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the pandemic, ecommerce accounted for approximately 16% of all retail. Until recently, all retailers had to work with were clunky, cumbersome, monolithic systems, where making one small change was akin to trying to steer a big heavy ship into a new direction. Website downtime simply wasn’t an option. The answer?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Today it’s a multi-million-dollar global business, with customers in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Our journey began with selling directly over the internet, we were working from home and shipping bikinis on our lunch breaks at our old workplaces,” Atkins told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2021

Paid memberships have also increasingly been introduced in retail, initially by buyers’ clubs like Sam’s Club and Costco, and now widely adopted by grocery and convenience store chains and by major e-Commerce platforms. Pre-payment . Differentiating membership models. Paid memberships are not all the same. Enhanced benefits .

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 18, 2021

This guide will take you through the process of selling on StockX, including how to set up an account and the benefits and drawbacks of selling on StockX. For a small business venture, StockX is an easy platform to enter the market. A Brief History of StockX: A Buying and Selling Platform for Collectibles.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

That means showing customers high-quality images, answering frequent questions on sales pages, using an FAQ or chatbot for other concerns (like shipping times or costs), and reducing the number of hoops they have to jump through for the checkout purchase. Increase your payment options. Provide information and advice.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

That has begun to change now, and among the swath of new platforms aiming to serve this sector, Faire has emerged as a front-runner. Since its launch in 2017, the platform has raised more than $1.29 At the time Faire was running a deal to promote its expansion into Europe , where the platform would cover import taxes. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By entering numerous emails and shipping addresses, the bots can get around traditional fraud detection systems. In severe cases, bot activity can have an effect akin to that of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, slowing down or even taking down websites, resulting in an immediate loss of revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Out-of-stocks have bumped up over the past two months, and “we’re flying in a lot of products we would normally have shipped by boat,” she added. Platform Boosts Site Speed Up To 43%. Platform Boosts Site Speed Up To 43%. Bentzen also gave credit to the technology that powers The Company Store’s robust web site.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2023

According to Claire O’Donnell, Director of Selling Partner Empowerment, Communities and Trust at Amazon, “most of our independent selling partners are small- and medium-sized businesses” by Gartner’s definition of the term. Those numbers of course bump up significantly on Prime Day. Also, Amazon gets more happy Prime members.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

claimed to continue operating normally in the wake of COVID, and their expected revenue changes compared to pre-COVID 2020 projects were -15.3%. To survive during the pandemic, retailers quickly adapted to mobile, contactless payments, curbside pickup and different delivery options to serve customers during a unique period of disruption.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Giving heft to this shift have been the names steadily joining the ranks of marketplace operators — retail heavyweights like Hudson’s Bay , Macy’s , Simon Property Group and Kroger all have joined the fold, and the common denominator among many of them (and in the case of the above list, all of them) is SaaS marketplace platform Mirakl.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The platforms. Social media platforms are at the heart of the company’s customer acquisition and retention strategy. We are in the indulgence business and the greater the constraint, the more people need to indulge themselves on special occasions,” he said.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When your shipping needs are complex, we make things simple. To meet the growing needs of their clients during Covid, Merchgirls created a custom pick and pack process that elevated the offering from B2B to B2C on a mass scale. Sustainable shipping and delivery options. Expert shipping services for clients of all sizes.

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