Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Manufacturers and retailers of products that rely on touch as a selling point (think apparel, décor and furniture) have faced some of the highest hurdles erected by COVID-19. It was the same concept — made-to-order upholstery that we drop-shipped direct to the consumer. You also save on the cost of doing photo shoots.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Some of the most popular gift-giving categories are those experiencing the highest levels of inflation, including electronics , toys and apparel. The three top categories for BNPL online orders were apparel ( 43% ), electronics ( 33% ) and grocery ( 30% ), and Adobe also found that the minimum order value is down 12% from 2020 to $225. “If

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG). What can the retailer learn from and improve?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

The team in Florida, looking for ways to expedite the expansion, was toying with the idea of using shipping containers as temporary shopping venues while parts of the expansion were being built out. Some brands treat the outing like any other store , hiring a store manager and associates and doing all the customer service themselves.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

For example, consumers shopping for apparel and accessories frequently use in-store and online returns and deem these options to be very important (55%). Due to the coronavirus, retailers saw a drop in returns abuse in the early part of 2020, driven primarily by the drop in transactions overall.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a result, the way businesses manage online returns is an important part of the customer journey. By providing a return QR code on a shipping label or box, or on a packing slip for use at a drop-off or collection, retailers can print a return label while also triggering an update to their order management system.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

Three companies in the space — intimates brand ThirdLove , Shopify aggregator Win Brands Group and apparel brand U.S. With our infrastructure, we were able to take the sourcing overseas with great partners that we’ve worked with for years and drop the cost of goods on that product by more than half.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7 million sellers or even Walmart’s nearly 69,000.

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 5, 2022

Businesses send products to Amazon fulfillment centers, and when a customer makes a purchase, Amazon handles all of the receiving, packing, shipping, customer service, and returns for those orders. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service that helps businesses by providing access to Amazon’s logistics network.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 9, 2023

The prominent British activewear retailer has been a mainstay of ecommerce for a decade – firstly starting out by drop shipping bodybuilding supplements online, before branching out into designing and producing its own line of activewear on a made-to-sell basis. And, a brand that is leading the pack is Gymshark.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Natasha Janic, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Salesforce offers a pro tip: Insert your loyalty program into the member’s shopper journey: “Is it easy for your customer to understand they can earn bonus points for products x, y, z? Salesforce anticipates 50% of new loyalty program signups will go dark after December 2021.”.

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Wiser

APRIL 7, 2020

Inventory management will rarely be the only thing that makes a retailer successful, but it can absolutely be the something that breaks you. Knowing what your customers like is one thing, but understanding how much of each item you need on shelves and how to price them is where inventory management can go awry.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 25, 2022

Trademarked Amazon US FBA Workout Apparel. This Trademarked Amazon US FBA Workout Apparel business generates 98% of its revenue from Amazon. The products are the highest quality in the category with an activewear brand utilizing a trade secret technology to offer unique workout apparel with only a 6% return rate.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 24, 2021

AI-driven apps for visual recognition are being used by followers to scan images and social media posts to dissect and identify each apparel worn by their favorite entertainer, sports athlete, etc. Inventory management and customized customer information will also benefit from these data-driven solutions.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But in 2020 Marks & Spencer opened up its website to outside apparel brands. Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

Many categories were wildly up, most notably Apparel which was up 727% vs the same month last year. Um and shop for apparel. [3:41] Um and shop for apparel. [3:41] Apparel had the greatest comp month in the history of apparel since someone like invented the first fur to put on the naked guy. vs Q4 2020, up 39.1%

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

How, when, and where the customer prefers to experience their product fulfillment affects the sourcing and shipping decisions. This includes everything from purchasing inventory to returns management. Purchase order management is often the first stumbling block to a smooth fulfillment process. Customer preference (fulfillment).

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Retail Geek

MARCH 15, 2024

And Ernest essentially takes these massive and messy data sets, normalizes structures, and then puts them onto our platform so everyone from portfolio managers to marketers can see this third-party data. That’s something they’ve managed to do. But I think people just realize Teamio is managing to disrupt Wish.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

Those boxes will then be shipped back to the retailers where the products originated, in the never-ending ebb and flow of goods sold-shipped-returned-resold that is commerce today. Image courtesy Happy Returns) Along one side of the warehouse floor are a series of truck bays where UPS drivers drop off boxes from the Return Bars.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This would raise shipping and transportation expenses, impacting: Last-mile delivery costs Freight and trucking expenses Higher prices on imported goods due to increased shipping costs Delays in deliveries and increased costs will add to the sourcing challenges. Sourcing Challenges. Trade Representative to oppose these tariffs.

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

This powerful platform lets merchants manage, modify, and adjust their ecommerce shops across Google’s various services, such as Google Shopping, Ads, My Business, etc. Missing Value: Shipping [shipping] Sometimes, you can forget to add the shipping costs for some of your products. How to fix it?

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

You know kind of the the low end and you know I think if you talk to apparel people during the pandemic they would have said like oh we’re you know we’re experiencing Armageddon if you compare this 13% growth too you know any of the last five or six years for apparel this would have been a great year. [16:23]

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

The kind of Legacy vendors that have been known for these retail media networks like citrus add which is owned by my parent company and then pretty oh but there were also, 37 startups that were you know launching new businesses to help either retailers, manager retail media Network or Brands advertised on a retail media Network so. [20:30]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Yes Shein exceeds $30B in annual sales, disrupting apparel industry Yes Adoption of BNPL services slows down to less than 15% CAGR in 2022. The AI for inventory management is super interesting like these models that are doing demand forecasting that are doing kind of.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s It’s a different landscape this year than last year, which was different than the year before,” said Peter McCall, Senior Manager, Retail Consulting and Advanced Analytics at Sensormatic in an interview with RetailTouchPoints. Additionally, in-store traffic was down only 19.5% 21, 2021, through Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Consumers are currently more willing to pay for fast shipping and are more tolerant with slower delivery, given the prevalence of shipping delays throughout the pandemic and through the holidays. 57% of BOXpoll respondents opting for free shipping consider delivery in five days to be either ‘fast’ or ‘acceptable.’ on average.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Major disruptions to the supply chain, the last mille, and to consumer behavior as a result of covid, will make this year extremely hard to predict and manage for brands and retailers. You’re relatively simple product like an electronic toy or an apparel item or almost anything it’s going to have first of all it.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Department stores or apparel stores or malls get back to kind of pretty pandemic levels. Digital in-store heats up, QR codes make a comeback Yes. 2021 Predictions.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For example apparel and Footwear or jewelry and even things like car parts or textbooks. A place where inventory is kept and where orders are picked act and put into the shipping carton. Um you know requirement that is different. And then from there you have after the performance center I mean think of the Fulfillment center as being.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

you know some some different perspectives and some novel stuff and I did record a couple podcast there so listeners have that to look forward to will drop those over the next few weeks and so some good. it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long.

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Retail Geek

JULY 26, 2023

And yeah the they also are doing well you know we haven’t talked a lot about them lately but they’ve expanded from a apparel retailer to a broad set of categories including consumer electronics and they’ve launched a third-party Marketplace on the US. Jason: [13:19] They started out selling wedding dresses.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Scot: [21:05] Yeah yeah I didn’t get a shipping notification sometimes maybe it maybe it is coming earlier we’ll see. And the you know greater shipping cost to get your goods from China to here are way bigger impact on Shopify sellers than is the idea of a change.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Matt: [2:05] No not at all actually spent six months in in college dropped out was one of the original I started selling on eBay 1999. Jason: [7:00] And so was q v predominantly like a order management system or I guess I always thought of it as kind of like a almost like a dim and a CMS and a way am I thinking of it wrong.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 28, 2021

Chris: [13:24] Oh my gosh it’s such the as this we’re still talking to UPS about shipping things from the eve of the UK and they still aren’t. Over and over again and so what we manage that without cannibalizing too many of our organic sales and so a lot of those. [28:37] We could have done quite yet.

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

Scot: [2:38] Who will we have it’s been a while since we dropped a pod because we both had spring breaks and then you’ve been traveling a bit so it’s great to be back. Scot: [4:43] Macy’s Woodberry Amazon and apparel. Jason: [2:49] Yeah it’s super fun to catch up with you and with the audience.

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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. Scot: [28:09] Yeah.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This new drop culture, where excitement builds around smaller, curated releases throughout the year, has become the new norm. Drop culture taps into the emotional immediacy that drives passive shopping. Traditional inventory management, where products are neatly stored and processed in batches, may not cut it in this environment.

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