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For the pandemic-hit fashion industry, the future is digital

Inside Retail

As global apparel revenues plummeted almost 20 per cent in 2020, e-commerce has emerged as the silver lining of the fashion industry’s challenging year. New customers are a major growth engine for retailers, but many merchants view first-time online shoppers as high-risk due to their unfamiliar behaviour and lack of purchase history.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

That, of course, is the key to Wish’s business model — by connecting international consumers directly with manufacturers (most of them Chinese, although diversifying the company’s merchant base is one of the company’s key turnaround pillars), customers can get products for dirt cheap. Doubling down on merchants outside of China.

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5 Tips to Boost Ecommerce Conversions

Independent Retailer

Each step of the ecommerce process, from searching for products to checkout, carries a risk of retailers losing a sale. ” “It is very crucial for stores to have a one click checkout.” Create a Seamless Checkout Process. Offer Multiple Payment Options. Utilize Push Notifications.

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Fashion retailers focus on flexible services to boost sales and drive long-term loyalty, research by parcelLab reveals

365 Retail

Fashion brands are pivoting to offer new, value-add delivery services and improved post-purchase experiences to enhance sales, encourage customer loyalty and protect margins, the latest data from parcelLab , the leading operations experience platform, reveals.

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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

Retail TouchPoints

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. The move from school supplies and apparel to hardware and computers wasn’t at all surprising to us,” Sides explained. “The

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Deep dive: What social commerce looks like around the world

Inside Retail

Apparel, beauty, health and wellness were the biggest beneficiaries at that time. Social commerce covers end-to-end shopping journeys, from discovery, research and evaluation to checkout, all on the social media app. Twitter Shops enables merchants to showcase up to 50 products on their Twitter profile.

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How To Find GTIN Online and Solve Feed Issue With Identifiers

Store Growers

This info can be encoded in the ubiquitous barcode form and used to identify a product’s specification at the point of sale, i.e., determine product type, size, color, and the price at the checkout counter of a brick-and-mortar store. In ecommerce, GTINs are used to identify products, but not only during checkout. Let’s check them out.