Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Brands and retailers are feeling mounting pressure — from consumers, shareholders and even their boards — to be more inclusive. this year alone, representing approximately 21% of the total women’s apparel market. Retailers need to realize consumers don’t want to be excluded or labeled differently to their peers because of size.

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365 Retail

MAY 8, 2024

Having formerly only served the largest apparel retailers and brands in the world, True Fit has democratised its Fashion Genome to bring the benefit of AI size and fit to the full market. It is now seeing a 108% MoM growth rate in adoption by Shopify brands and is on trajectory to implement the solution within 2,000+ merchants in 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that). The return to offices and social events is inspiring consumers to level up their wardrobes and focus more on apparel and footwear.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, more than any year since the advent of online and mobile commerce, consumers lost a sense of control. Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon).

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Retailers certainly need to know what consumers want , but perhaps an even more important question is: How do I provide it to my shoppers? According to a report from Shopify, merchants see a 250% increase in conversions when using 3D product image models instead of 2D images.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Source: Statista This forecast highlights the tremendous potential and increasing influence of social media platforms as key drivers of consumer purchasing behavior. Advertisers have been boosting their presence on this platform in product categories such as health and beauty, apparel and accessories.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

Recommerce, the sale of secondhand merchandise, is a hot topic as consumers become more enthused about recycling goods rather than contributing to enormous mountains of landfill waste. While secondhand marketplaces are steadily growing, they barely make a dent in the billions of items today’s consumers generate. Take the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

The services provided under this collaboration will encompass local pick-up, warehousing, international transportation, access to Chinese bonded warehouses, customs clearance, and comprehensive delivery services across China. Focusing on beauty and apparel Initially, the partnership will focus on the beauty and apparel segments.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2023

Shopify has launched a new integration with Google Cloud that enables its merchants to leverage Google-quality search capabilities and AI innovations on their sites. consumers look for products on retail websites ( 69% ), followed closely by general website browsing ( 63% ). And yet little more than one in 10 U.S.

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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

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumer-friendly and flexible return policies can be the difference between getting a new customer and losing a sale. Furthermore, 56% of consumers report buy online/return in-store (BORIS) options to be very important, while 72% of consumers report the ability to initiate returns online to be very important to their purchasing decision.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, returns are receiving serious (and necessary) attention for several key reasons: Retailers are spending more processing returns in stores. In a survey of consumers conducted by Doddle , 84% said a positive returns experience encourages them to shop with a retailer again. Returns is just one example.” .

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. Rounding out the mix of top players, BigCommerce joined the mix just today.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It took Shopify merchants nearly 15 years to reach a cumulative GMV of $200 billion. I think a world without independent brands and independent merchants and local stores is a very boring world and a very boring landscape for commerce. It took just 16 months for them to double that figure. What stood out to you in the findings?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The retailer is utilizing First Insight’s digital product testing solution and the Optitex 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software to improve its understanding of the customer, increase speed to market, support digital workflows, create sustainable sampling processes and reduce waste.

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 11, 2022

Each step of the ecommerce process, from searching for products to checkout, carries a risk of retailers losing a sale. For 2022, mobile ecommerce experiences are on the radar, since 75 percent of consumers buy products with their smartphones. However, over 90 percent of consumers say the mobile ecommerce experience could be better. .

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

Apparel, beauty, health and wellness were the biggest beneficiaries at that time. Because social media is where many consumers spend their time, and where they look for inspiration and discovery. On TikTok Shop , consumers can buy from in-feed videos, livestreams and a product showcase.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2023

If well built, they provide advertisers with a channel to engage with consumers for both near-term return on ad spend (a.k.a. Both of these models are done in a way that protects consumer data and privacy. We are also seeing healthy ads businesses develop in online travel, home services, digital goods and used goods.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 9, 2022

consumer spending maintained its positive momentum in February, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which found that overall retail sales (excluding auto) increased 8.7% compared to pre-pandemic levels, driven by consumers resuming in-person activity. retail sales” as sales at retailers and food services merchants of all sizes.

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VMS

AUGUST 11, 2021

grew for the 11 th consecutive month in July, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse , which measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment. With more cash in hand—fueled in part by the Child Tax Credit and pent-up savings—consumers drove U.S. Consumers are shopping, spending and splurging across channels.”.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 16, 2023

The virtual event will be held October 11 to 13 and seeks to let Meijer connect with suppliers that have sustainable products in the food, health and beauty, everyday essentials, pets, apparel, and general merchandise categories. Meijer is also seeking products across all categories with sustainable packaging attributes.

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365 Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2022

A growing number of consumers are concerned about how their purchasing decisions impact the planet, but even the most sustainability-savvy customer may be confused about how best to align purchases with their green principles. Consumers Overwhelmed by Insufficient or Contradictory Sustainability Info. In fact, half of the 1,000 U.S.

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Mass Relators

MAY 6, 2021

retail sales had another month of double-digit growth in April, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment. Mastercard SpendingPulse reports on national retail sales across all payment types in select markets around the world. . — Total U.S. compared to April 2019.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Retail Minded

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Georganne Bender, a retail thought leader and consumer anthropologist, wasn’t quite as interested in technology when reflecting on what retail needs to see in the year ahead but rather the merchandising in stores. And not from off the floor, which is where I often see apparel these days. ” I couldn’t agree more.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What can be done to optimize shelf conditions such as availability, planogram compliance, display compliance, and more? COVID-19 has changed how the entire retail industry operates from brands to retailers and especially consumers. We have a recording of the webinar below. Wiser Solutions and The Clorox Company Webinar.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Digital will continue to be the star: Although Black Friday spending was lower than Adobe’s projections, consumers still spent a total of $9 billion online, making it the second-largest online spending day in U.S. Consumers spent $10.8 Shopper Yield data revealed that spend per consumer increased 36.3% billion , a 15.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2022

Most consumers are in the same boat. In a new survey from marketing platform Klaviyo , 49% of consumers said they don’t know what the metaverse is , and among those respondents who said they were aware of the metaverse, 78% think it’s mostly marketing hype. Gap and Walmart have even bought their own AR try-on startups.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 29, 2022

— Meijer announced on Tuesday that it will host its first Sustainability Supplier Summit, giving vendors nationwide the opportunity to showcase their sustainable products – from food to pets to home goods – for Meijer merchants to consider offering on shelves.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The company was acquired by Adjmi Apparel Group in 2019, and Mangione has been there since the beginning (he even served as a product model in the early days). We’re trying to touch consumers in as many different places as we can with the brand name, and the voice skill helps us do that in a unique way that not many of our competitors do.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

But with socially distancing consumers continuing to spend more time online, and e-Commerce increasing in many sectors due to restricted brick-and-mortar shopping, the opportunities are out there. Much of what we do, including how we work, play and buy goods and services, has shifted massively during the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2020

Mass merchants in particular have benefited from this change: private label sales in the segment have increased by 41% over the past five years , approximately 4X higher than overall private label growth. Additionally, the percentage of consumers willing to pay the same or more for private labels over name-brand products rose from 34%.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was easy for Forever 21 to capture the hearts and minds of young consumers looking for trendy apparel. Commenting on the growth of Shein TechCrunch wrote : “[Shein] manufactures in China as many apparel retailers do. Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mastercard SpendingPulse predicts strong growth in apparel sales as people return to pandemic social and work routines, and foresees relatively strong sales of luxury goods. Overall, Deloitte’s retail and consumer products practice projects holiday sales of between $1.45 trillion and $1.47 trillion from November to January.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

Founded in 1977 by Ken’s mother — fashion designer Josie Cruz Natori, who still serves as CEO — company executives started to notice a shift in consumer behavior in the mid- to late-2000s. I Would Always Rather Over-explore than Under-explore’. There were some signs in the tea leaves that were concerning,” said Natori.

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