Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Flexible Payments Will Gain Further Ground. Flexible payments are continuing to gain steam, particularly among younger generations. A survey by Klarna found that 75% of Gen Z, 76% of millennials and 60% of Gen X are looking for more flexible payment options. Let the countdown begin….

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

The result — a suite of data insights tools called Walmart Luminate — is now being used regularly by Walmart merchants and suppliers under the banner of the company’s Data Ventures division. As with most retailers, everybody’s looking for alternative revenue streams , whether it’s advertising, data or other streams.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For example, Lazada will be sharing its best practices pertaining to platform terms of services, IPR infringement reporting and removal mechanisms, and IPR awareness building amongst its merchants,” Ang explained. Online advertisements and influencer marketing is also playing an important role in pre-purchase decisions.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just as with finding the right content strategy, setting up the company’s TikTok Shop was a process of trial and error: “There was some blood, sweat and even a few tears behind getting set up and figuring it out, but once we did, we were off to the races,” recalled Parkhurst. “We Either way it’s good for us.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

Sessions illustrate the increasingly complex nature of the customer experience, and how the lines between commerce, marketing, service, and even supply chain and fulfillment, continue to blur. It’s no wonder marketers and merchants are overwhelmed trying to capture consumers’ attention and convert them.

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Store Growers

MAY 2, 2023

Google Merchant Promotions are a great opportunity for advertisers to have their items stand out in Shopping ads. We’ve dedicated an in depth article on Merchant Promotions specifically, so in this piece, we’ll focus on how to use the promotion_id attribute. What Is the Promotion id Attribute in the Product Feed?

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Retail Geek

MARCH 18, 2022

ShipBob is a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We discuss ShipBob’s origin story, how the e-commerce fulfillment industry has evolved, as well as the challenges and implications of Amazon and Shopify’s various fulfillment initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

It closed down all channels except online, and put all its advertising dollars and social media initiatives into selling direct to consumers (DTC). Already having mastered a multichannel strategy pre-pandemic, during the lockdown it extended its multichannel capabilities to sales and customer service.

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Retail Bound

JUNE 19, 2022

Amazon is known as a marketplace that focuses on products rather than services. Additionally, it is essential to note retailers are prohibited by Amazon’s Terms of Service from including any mention of Prime Day discounts, offers, or other promotions on their product detail pages. Use Unofficial Deals.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The wholesale product manufacturer creates, packages, and ships the product out to your customer for you, making this a low maintenance business model. When a retail customer orders an item, the dropshipping company blind ships the item to the customer. Why You Should Drop Ship. Why You Should Drop Ship. back to top.

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Retail Times

MARCH 22, 2021

From finding the right vendors to crafting mutually-beneficial agreements with them, the pointers below should give you some ideas that you can apply in your supplier management processes. In retail, this typically involves dealing with your manufacturers, wholesalers, fulfillment partners, and other contractors. Let’s get started.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 17, 2022

Access to world class logistics Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is another benefit of choosing to sell on Amazon. If an organization decides to enter Amazon’s FBA program they send their inventory to Amazon then Amazon manages storage of the inventory within its facilities, shipping and customer service (including returns).

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Rangeme

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A subscription box is a specific assortment of multiple products shipped to customers on a recurring basis. Here are three common types of subscription box business strategies: Recurring deliveries: This involves boxes usually shipped every month. There is an array of variations per industry, but they usually work in similar ways.

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VMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Effective in the third quarter, Andy Jassy, formerly CEO of Amazon Web Services, stepped up to replace Bezos. Bezos’ rocket ship went up to the stars (which got all the headlines) and came back down again (hardly mentioned). Much of it is sitting in ships stacking up at various U.S. Advertisement. Advertisement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2022

Retail TouchPoints recently partnered with Amazon Web Services on a survey of 500 retail and brand executives and found that the vast majority ( 84% ) have incorporated CSR in some way into their business strategies, largely because they think it is the right thing to do ( 72% ).

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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

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Jason: [2:34] I think if you’re a traditional Advertiser that has for what like. Who benefited from the advertising model like you’re concerned because there’s potential disruption but I’m with you I think there’s the. Jason: [4:32] I’m sorry tell the advertisers listening. 25:27] 4.6

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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. Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. Jason Total Score: 3 of 5.

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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. Advertising products could stand for some. Make those products more mature and friendly to advertisers. Breaking News: Instacart has appointed Facebook executive Fidji Simo as its new CEO. Amazon News. Other News.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

Impact of App Tracking Transparency (ATT) on advertising platforms Shopify vs. Facebook Retail Media Networks Q1 2022 US Department of commerce data and trends Audience questions (including buy now pay later). This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the NYC Google HQ, for Zenith Basecamp.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Scot: [5:04] And then so then that was your primary thing so then you did you guys realize that you needed to build you look at all the software for shipping and inventory management and build your own and then you, tell the story of that. Matt: [4:59] Yeah it was a it was a lot of fun so. Pain management we really tried to rely on our.

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Retail Geek

JULY 7, 2022

Scot: [2:15] Yeah they’re not a lot of good ones whatever you do don’t sign up for that paid service because it just makes your tweets take 10 times longer to go out it’s like the opposite of a feature. Assortment of items with different prices and different service levels from Amazon Fresh and from Whole Foods.

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Store Growers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

To be completely transparent I’ve long wanted to start my own online store and document the whole process. Because I have too many projects that never got off the ground, my main goal for those first days was to ship something. Shipping is the part that requires a HUGE amount of energy. Printing on demand service.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

Jason: [17:48] Dsps are the third party delivery services that Amazon uses yeah. Scot: [17:52] Delivery service professionals yeah so that was interesting. Scot: [17:52] Delivery service professionals yeah so that was interesting. Learn more about this.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jason: [2:13] Yeah all that’s gone now it’s just a chunk of aluminium but I’m excited to get mine I have a little jealousy because I feel like we both ordered early on launch day and I think yours already shipped is that true. It was a rigorous process.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

So that was interesting and then the to me the most geeky coolest thing of all although controversial is during the pandemic, the Brazilian government launched a government-sponsored instant payment system so I got. 9:53] Brazil is. So yeah I don’t know the exact breakdown but it just.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

eTail West Tradshow Amazon Stock Split Shopify Fulfillment Network eBay “The Vault” Twitter E-Commerce Pilot Retail Media Networks are on fire Inflation continues to rise. it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long. Q4 Earnings Reports. Dicks Sporting Goods Walmart Target.

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

If you like is wrong I know how I got in this like funky like creative advertising world with all these I kept custody clients like I totally don’t fit in. The world’s largest fulfillment model. Jason: [1:48] Yes unfortunately not a large enough chunk of the total addressable Market are Geeks.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Installment Payments heat up – At least one company is acquired (Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, QuadPay, Sizzle) Yes (IPO’s). Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Digital grocery wars heat up. Owned brands continue to grow. 2021 Predictions. Retail Media > $20B.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

Jason: [5:17] Yeah the crazy bald super buff guy that owns his own rocket ship and then buys the company James Bond works for like I think that’s the theme for like a James Bond movies. The more reasons Amazon has for people that join Prime the more money they make on this whole ecosystem of services around Prime and it’s.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 28, 2021

A number of firms are acquiring, or some would say rolling up, brands that primarily distribute their products on Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon. While traditional CPGs may review their pricing quarterly, and set marketing strategies annual, Perch adjusts pricing strategy hourly, and advertising strategies daily.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Scot: [0:56] I had I am not a big sports ball person but I watched the Super Bowl every year for the commercials and I had, I know you’re the grand poobah of all things advertising and I had an ad question for you. You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. And that did not happen.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2021

Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason and Scot show listeners here at the Jason and Scot show headquarters we are always on the lookout for exciting new startups that are innovating around some of our favorite topics of e-commerce payments. Jason: [8:30] It’s crazy that 400 million a year is like a starter merchants.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Want to learn about Amazon’s sneaky fulfillment advantage (Amazon Key for Business)? but also a heck of a lot of the best-in-class advertising on Facebook is what I would call real time optimized wide because they had this like real-time closed loop of performance you could. Ready Jason’s Forbes Article here. Transcript.

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