Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When customers aren’t actively searching and shopping for gifts, they are spending an elevated amount of time watching their favorite TV shows and movies — especially holiday classics like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Elf. In many ways, the same trends we see in consumers’ Q4 shopping behaviors mirror their TV viewership.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Passwords are at the heart of the issue and account for 30% of all abandoned online purchases. Best Buy has taken a conservative approach to implementing passkeys, opting to keep the familiar account registration process with a username and password while allowing more users to add a passkey in their account settings.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The global online in-flight shopping market is forecast to reach US$825.3 The first-class segment accounted for 40.6 per cent of the global online in-flight shopping market in 2020 and is expected to continue this trend. The post Online in-flight shopping market tipped to surge appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 11, 2023

Generative AI in Search Shopping will be one of the key test cases for Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE), which uses generative AI to make more complex search tasks “simpler and smarter.” SGE is built on Google’s existing AI-powered Shopping Graph , which includes 35 billion product listings, 1.8

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a result of these new approaches, customers now expect a secure, seamless shopping experience whether they are shopping in-person or online. Retailers are now exploring innovative approaches, such as biometric authentication through facial recognition, to make the shopping experience faster and more enjoyable.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised. A new GenAI search experience, which is live on iOS for all customers within the latest version of its app, is now available for all customers who are logged into their Walmart account.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And as on many other online platforms, where there’s livestreaming there’s live shopping. This holiday season, YouTube is promoting the commercial potential of its platform with its first-ever live shopping pop-up event. ecommerce by 2024. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2023

Walmart will offer “sensory-friendly” hours for customers with sensory disabilities on designated days throughout the back-to-school shopping season. local time, most Walmart stores will feature a quieter shopping environment, with store lights dimmed, music turned off and any screens with moving pictures switched over to a stationary image.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Tiktok is now offering organic product discovery and shopping capabilities on the social video platform through a partnership with Shopify. Creators with a TikTok for Business account will soon be able to add a shopping tab to their profile, and create a mini storefront that can link directly to their online store for checkout purposes.

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Retail Focus

MAY 3, 2022

Some people choose to open a retail shop, which could be the start of something bigger later. The trend for in-store shopping today focuses on creating smaller, more affordable shops. The trend for in-store shopping today focuses on creating smaller, more affordable shops. Choose a memorable name for your shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Walmart ’s Store Nº8 and Global Tech team are rolling out a text-to-shop beta test in select areas to develop the retail giant’s next conversational commerce offering. The offering will build on Walmart’s voice commerce capabilities to introduce more options for customers looking to shop in the way that’s most convenient for them.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In late November the brand opened a holiday pop-up shop at Live Rocket Studios in New York City’s Seaport neighborhood. The Beekman 1802 Kindness Shop holiday pop-up store opened on Nov. More than 8,000 viewers tuned in for the two-hour show, and sales in those two hours accounted for 51% of total ecommerce sales for the day.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Sika Health — a payment solution that enables ecommerce merchants to accept Health Spending Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) payments — has launched a new marketplace where consumers can shop directly for HSA- and FSA-eligible products.

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365 Retail

MARCH 18, 2024

The Creative Retail Awards, in collaboration with Shop Drop Daily, is excited to announce the launch of a groundbreaking new Award – The Shop Drop Daily Concept of the Year Award. Taking valuable feedback into account, the Creative Retail Awards are proud to present the most comprehensive Awards to date.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

million people plan to shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday in 2022, representing 69% of all holiday shoppers, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Analytics. Black Friday is once again the top day to shop, with 114.9 An estimated 166.3 This is lower than the 13.5%

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

Large scale retail restructuring and administrations such as Wilko led to a net of 14 store closures a day last year with 5,000 fewer shops now trading across the UK. Although the 9,138 new openings in 2023 marked the highest rate since 2019, the majority of these were driven by hospitality sites, the research revealed.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

D:R Consumers are now looking for a transformed shopping experience and ways to express themselves through the products they buy. Zaballero: This is more a question of how corporate communications can react to better support the customer shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2024

It also takes into account sizes bought — and kept — by similar customers for the same product or similarly fitting products. The tool also takes into account that sizes change over time. For example, a customer that bought children’s pants in a certain size this month will likely need a larger size for the next purchase.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Iconic is the latest victim of ‘credential stuffing,’ a scam that resulted in customer accounts being used to place fraudulent orders, some totaling thousands of dollars, dating back to November last year. Nationally in the year prior, over $9 million was lost to online shopping scams according to the National Anti-Scam Centre.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2023

Here, we speak with Sampson about his journey from the shop floor to the head office, and how he is upskilling himself as a leader. Once I’d earned my stripes in the retail business, I moved into the corporate office and cut my teeth in sales, being trained up as the key account manager for a number of Globe brands in the Myer business.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Two Adelaide entrepreneurs have rolled out a new on-the-go office concept called TaskPods to facilitate hybrid working across busy shopping centres, airports and transport hubs in the country. In Melbourne, they have been opened at 206 Bourke Street, South Melbourne Central and The Glen Shopping Centre at Glen Waverley.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s been more than four years since mall operator Simon launched its ecommerce joint venture with Rue Gilt Groupe , and the Shop Premium Outlets (SPO) marketplace is going strong. We look at ourselves as more of a shop-in-shop than a marketplace , and the reason I say that is we collaborate with brands more than most other marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meta and Amazon have quietly debuted a new closed-loop social commerce experience that allows Facebook and Instagram users to link their social media accounts to Amazon so they can make purchases directly in-platform. You can check out with Amazon without leaving Facebook or Instagram, and experience more relevant ads.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2023

Retailers are prepared to serve consumers in the current economic environment by offering a range of products at affordable prices with great shopping experiences.” Top retailers are perfecting their approach toward omnichannel and studying shopping habits while also protecting their own bottom lines. trillion and $1.43

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Reality: Shopping While Black In a study of Black middle-class shoppers in the New York City area: 80% reported experiencing racial stigma and stereotypes when shopping; 59% reported being perceived as a shoplifter; 52% said they received poor or no service; 52% reported being perceived as poor.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2022

billion, accounting for a record 18.9% Even worse, more than 87% of customers confirm they have been locked out of an online account due to too many failed login attempts. As early as February 2021, industry analysts predicted the year’s holiday ecommerce sales would climb to $206.88 increase over last year’s ecommerce earnings.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Iconic has launched a new branding campaign over a month after the online fashion retailer found itself in defence mode due to fraudulent transactions made via customers’ accounts. ” In January, The Iconic committed to refunding customers after fraudulent orders were made on their accounts. .”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

From TV shopping channels to online shopping, videos have demonstrated that they are the best method to connect with customers at the convenience of their own home. There is definitely a trend towards shopping and entertainment coming together, but the platforms are not fully integrated yet,” Bush told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Retail shopping centres face a major challenge rebuilding customer traffic and sales after the Covid-19 pandemic is controlled. With occupancy rates under pressure, shopping-centre landlords have already reviewed property valuations to account for tighter rent market conditions and financial concessions required to retain key retail brands.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How does music support these brands, and what subconscious effect is this having on our shopping behaviour? The power of nostalgia “ Mental accounts theory ” considers the factors that influence our rational spending and our susceptibility to impulsive purchases. However, one factor is a little more devious – nostalgia.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2020

In an effort to create a more seamless shopping experience under the Stop & Shop brand, the retailer has launched a Stop & Shop-branded e-Commerce platform and mobile app that will replace the Peapod digital platform customers previously used.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Fortunately, not long into the crisis, search behemoth Google paid attention to these companies’ needs, announcing in April that merchants would be able to list products on its Google Shopping platform for free. Your business should certainly be looking to harness Google Shopping to its advantage. Adding Products to Google Shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

. “We continue to see an evolution in how, where and when Americans are shopping during these unprecedented times,” said Todd Dipaola, CEO and Founder of InMarket in comments provided to Retail TouchPoints. That growth has already begun, with ecommerce gift cards accounting for 29.8%

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Card payments accounted for more than £4 in every £5 spent in 2020, British Retail Consortium (BRC) figures show. Debit and credit card transactions accounted for 81% of the value of spending last year, up from 78% in 2019. Debit cards accounted for over half (54%) of all transactions by volume for the first time.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TikTok Shop has today announced a new partnership with Royal Mail to help merchants of all sizes improve their delivery experience and thrive on the platform. By integrating the service into TikTok Shop, merchants of all sizes can save time and improve the delivery experience.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

But while labour and marketing budgets are typically the first to be put on the chopping block, retailers may be overlooking opportunities to reduce costs in the back end by automating everyday finance functions, such as accounts payable and accounts receivable. “I

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