Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2022

E-commerce businesses are fighting for consumers’ attention at an extraordinary rate. It’s about knowing who your customers are and which channels they use, thoroughly understanding each channel’s requirements and streamlining consumers’ pathway to purchase. Best practices for multichannel e-commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 2021 Connected Consumer Series reflected the challenges retail (and society as a whole) have faced during the past year, but also the growing sense of optimism that is taking hold this year. 5 Social Advertising Trends for Retailers to Know in 2021: Featuring Under Armour.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

“There’s a beauty and complexity in having brands online,” noted Katie Thomas, who is a Lead at the Kearney Consumer Institute. “We We already have so many options to choose from, but there’s a unique opportunity for consumers to find new and interesting products.” Build Trust Through Transparent CX.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing. The Independent ’s move is yet another sign that ecommerce has officially moved beyond the store website; consumers increasingly expect to be able to make a purchase when and where inspiration strikes , whether that be on social media, while streaming videos or directly in search engines.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Although the eTailer has two very distinct target customers — the fashion-forward Millennial and the style-conscious 40-to-50-year-old consumer — there are core behaviors that transcend these distinctions and, ultimately, guide Olivela’s experience strategies. Olivela IRL successfully meets consumers’ content cravings.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Although the eTailer has two very distinct target customers — the fashion-forward Millennial and the style-conscious 40-to-50-year-old consumer — there are core behaviors that transcend these distinctions and, ultimately, guide Olivela’s experience strategies. Olivela IRL successfully meets consumers’ content cravings.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2023

Living in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia, India , Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, and the Philippines, these digital consumers are between the ages of 6 and 26 and represent 36 per cent of the aforementioned countries’ populations. He went on to say that creating consumer awareness about a product or service can be challenging.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Economic headwinds are likely to blow harder when consumers’ savings from the pandemic dwindle, which a Charles Schwab analyst believes could happen by Q3. There is built-up excess savings — estimates vary in the $1.5 to $2 trillion range — and that has been fueling consumption.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s not Saturday morning cartoons; it’s not these huge, big-budget ads — but we can still create incredible content and connect with thousands, even millions of consumers through TikTok.” Parkhurst took Retail TouchPoints behind the scenes of the company’s growing TikTok empire and its entrance into the emerging world of TikTok commerce.

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365 Retail

MARCH 1, 2022

Brands to prioritise growth of sales on multiple online marketplaces: As brands look at ways to reach new audiences and increase sales, the use of online marketplaces will continue to grow and their popularity among consumers will see an uptick throughout the year. Brands will embrace social commerce by using social to test and learn.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2022

As TikTok kicks off its second annual TikTok World business summit, the social media juggernaut is making headlines for more than just new platform updates. based fulfillment centers in a bid to directly challenge ecommerce giants like Amazon and Shopify. Currently available by invite only in the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia.);

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Curious about how consumer attitudes and behaviors are evolving? What consumers really want from brands and retailers. EY (Ernst & Young) has been tracking changing consumer sentiments since the onset of COVID-19 and will soon launch its 8 th Future Consumer Index. 17 from 1:20 to 2:10 p.m. 17 from 12 to 12:30 p.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s why Touchland’s four -person marketing team (including Lisbona herself) leans into a powerful combination of brand values and creative storytelling to guide social content creation. After all, as consumers venture across social platforms, that voice is what creates continuity as they consume your content.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Leveraging social media to ensure the store’s product offerings stay in sync with consumer demand. The company’s website, built on WooCommerce , features all 2,000+ items carried in the store, and orders are fulfilled directly from the store itself. From Pushcart to Multi-Generation Local Business.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. The most notable shift between the 2019 back-to-school season and today is the strong consumer preference for technology over traditional items like apparel and even school supplies.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of TikTok Shop While the ecommerce functionality has been available to at least some users since late last year, today marks the service’s debut to the wider TikTok community, and to say that both consumers and brands have been eagerly anticipating this development might be an understatement.

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Rangeme

JUNE 8, 2021

Let’s take a look at the options: Direct to consumer, via your own website. Selling directly to consumers gives you freedom and flexibility with everything from marketing to pricing and shipping, making it easier to control perceptions. Direct to consumer, via Shopify. Cons : Steep learning curve; hard to acquire customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Your “lost package” may be just another phishing scam Most consumers love the convenience of making purchases online and having them shipped straight to their doorstep. Watch for sneaky malicious links on social media Social media apps aren’t just a place for people to share photos and connect with friends.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

As the LUXIE brand has grown to become a global DTC cosmetic tools brand sold in 160 countries, its consumer base has shifted from an average age of under 20 to a 30- to 45-year-old demographic. Riley : When I first came on board as CEO in February 2018, I wanted to get us out in front of a lot of consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Resale Continued its Rise but Came Under Financial Scrutiny Consumers’ enthusiasm for secondhand goods, as well as other forms of more sustainable consumption like rental and repair services, showed no sign of slowing in 2023. Media and Advertising Became More Contextual (and Measurable) Marketing teams are feeling more pressure to perform.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

Among them were unpredictable shipment of supplies and waning consumer demand that left many with excess inventory. A lot of sellers will start out selling on a single ecommerce marketplace, but then find as time passes that this marketplace gets more saturated — and more expensive to advertise on — making it harder to sell.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Shopify Unite 2021 Instagram leans into commerce Nike earnings Warby Parker IPO. Advertising products could stand for some. Make those products more mature and friendly to advertisers. Amazon News. Other News.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2021

Even if brands and retailers don’t have a physical store, they have an opportunity to create a seamless customer-focused experience that spans across their branded ecommerce sites, marketplaces and even social channels. SharperImage.com Gets a Big Payoff from a Headless Commerce Upgrade . They have to see it to buy it.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JANUARY 23, 2023

Retail Media Networks Retail media networks are a form of advertising that enables retailers to monetize their first-hand data to better serve customers with more relevant offers when shopping in digital and physical stores and via email/SMS. Brands typically need more data to deliver personalized messages to consumers at scale.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Episode 297 is a recap of the GroceryShop trade show in Las Vegas, and the Consumer Brands Executive Summit in Colorado Springs. We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others).

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Retail Geek

JUNE 25, 2021

Now we did see growth on Amazon I’ve seen some reports out there that Amazon was flat, or even I saw one report that said it was it was down for Prime day but we didn’t see that we saw we saw growth. [12:38] Marker 03. [22:47]

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Retail Geek

APRIL 30, 2021

Jason: [1:51] Yeah so Scott one of the interesting things in Facebook’s announcement is they referenced the the likely impact that the that Apple’s changes to mobile, app tracking the idea of a would have on their go forward advertising revenue and is a reminder. 3:25] The iOS 14.5

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. And last year, they added automated integrations with Snap, Criteo, which Criteo is a multi-platform advertising platform, and TikTok.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the gross merchandise value (GMV) of Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market is expected to grow by a CAGR of 17 per cent from US$129 billion in 2022 to US$280 billion in 2027, and the number of digital consumers in the region is expected to grow to 370 million by the end of 2022. The e-commerce factor. Big numbers.

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Retail Assist

JANUARY 17, 2023

Quick commerce, social commerce, marketplaces, greenwashing of brands, a resurgence in physical retail and a rebalancing of ecommerce were key themes during the year. Whilst some press reports suggest there could be a decline in social media usage amidst a shunning of Big Tech, it’s pretty unlikely.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

We also briefly discuss e-commerce in Brazil, around Jason’s recent trip to São Paulo. In this episode we recap everything you may have missed if you couldn’t make it to Las Vegas. But apparently like taking the email address of all the people you sell something too and uploading it to a server via an API is too hard.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2021

One of our biggest barriers outside of figuring out the language was just understanding the consumer journey, how to create marketing assets that support that journey. This presents a massive opportunity for marketers to reach consumers earlier in the journey, before they’ve made up their minds on a particular brand.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2022

First move to making fulfillment by Amazon available to non Amazon sellers or at least sellers off of the Amazon platform and so it’s kind of interesting. Checked out on Tick Tock in huge quantities yet but it’s super interesting the Amazons kind of approach to social commerce, is get content creators and influencers and sellers.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

Amazon is building Micro Fulfillment Centers to deliver fast-moving grocery & convenience SKUs in under 45mins. Scott Silverman: What do you think will be the most surprising post-pandemic consumer behaviors that e-commerce retailers should prepare for? A hundred and forty thousand square foot micro fulfillment centers.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. 6:08] Startup automation things that could bring automated picking to store fulfillment or small fulfillment centers or. Pick to light systems and gloves like a lot of.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures Yes Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers No Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC Yes Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution) No Retail Media > $20B Yes. Yeah they’re serving a bunch of consumers yeah.

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