Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

With more people returning to in-store shopping as the pandemic has eased, brands are leaning into the phygital trend by designing physical stores that reflect popular elements of the online experience. Meanwhile, in the Nike app, shoppers can access early product drops and solicit styling advice from experts.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Many retailers tightened their belts to preserve cash flow and shareholder returns, and implemented cost-out campaigns to offset margin erosion from discounting activities. The Reject Shops Cahn highlighted that even though there was relief on the cost of international shipping rates over 2024, there is still some volatility in the rates.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

This year, 3D and AR adoption is expected to be one of the biggest trends for providing next-gen ecommerce experiences, especially for apparel and footwear brands looking to bring the physical world to digital shopping. Consumers expect convenient, interactive shopping experiences, from online to in-store and everything in between.

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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. Many of the same brands have returned for the second ACCESS Pop-Up — which opened on March 8, 2024 in Sarasota, Fla.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7 In return Google gets to aggregate all that inventory , which inevitably drives more traffic and makes its core advertising business that much more attractive. million sellers or even Walmart’s nearly 69,000. Rounding out the mix of top players, BigCommerce joined the mix just today.

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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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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 TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

Geekplus robots are now in use at all three of Happy Returns’ Hubs. Image courtesy Happy Returns) Inside a large warehouse in Pennsylvania, dozens of black robots dart and swirl across a polished concrete floor. Were inside one of the three Happy Returns Hubs across the U.S. The rate of goods returned in the U.S.

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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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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Even New Balance is making a big return with their 1400 series that will feature new Made in USA construction. Domestic-made apparel is also on the rise, and with California’s Senate Bill 62 , the Garment Worker Protection Act, this could be the key to a healthy comeback for the nation’s apparel sector. Mars Outlet Store LLC.

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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. How complicated is the returns process? This includes everything from purchasing inventory to returns management. Is inventory coming directly from the vendor and therefore needs to be dropshipped?

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Retail Next

JULY 16, 2020

As we move forward into this new normal of continuing social distancing, wearing masks, and washing our hands, the million dollar question is, when will we return to life as we once knew it? Dress-up, career apparel, and tailored clothing have all been challenging, as to be expected. .

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The increase reflected growth in the consumables category, partially offset by declines in the apparel, seasonal and home products segments. Gross profit as a percentage of net sales was 30.5% compared to 30.8% in the year-ago period, a decrease of 27 basis points.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Extraordinarily inexpensive apparel and you know inexpensive tchotchkes that you probably didn’t know you need but like if you start browsing the side it for a.m. You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories. on a Friday night you’re.

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Store Growers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Use quality images Minimal image size requirements are as follows: Non-apparel images: min. 100 x 100 pixels Apparel images: min. Google has their way of directing a user’s attention to a product by using tags (labels or annotations) and there are four of them: sale label , price drop badge , shipping tag , and return policy tag.

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

Shipping & Tax Errors Here, I’ll cover the most common errors that occur with shipping and tax, such as missing shipping information and shipping weight attribute, sub-attributes for the shipping attribute , missing value for the tax attribute, and lack of sub-attributes for it. 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 TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s The other complicating factor is you’ve got consumers who are incredibly aware of the supply chain, inventory and shipping challenges that are out there. The rise in traffic compared to 2020 showed that shoppers are starting to return to stores. Overall sales were up 8.5% 1 through Dec.

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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. E-com returns 10-15% growth rates.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

And you know a bunch of these guys are kind of stumbling like the the amount of eyeballs you have to sell like drop off really fast after you get pissed Amazon and Walmart, um and so you know it the fragmentation problem becomes a real problem for. Meta did a keynote and they talked a lot about. [42:31]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

The year of returns – “happy returns” – a startup raises $100M+ in space. for year of returns). Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Fedex does something drastic – buy eBay?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

With so much change happening so quickly and so unpredictably, we at Pitney Bowes decided that returning to an 8 th edition of our annual consumer research study wasn’t going to cut it, so instead we moved to a weekly poll of consumer sentiment in Q4 called BOXpoll. One-third think seven-day free shipping is ‘acceptable.’ on average.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. 15:57] We just opened up here a restaurant container Village kind of a thing so you have those containers their specialized boats that carry these and and or you can put them on airplanes.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2022

He took that approximated in 34 so that went through yeah if ba you multiply that out and you get about 700 million dollars just drops right out of that 35 cents. So it turns out that last holiday if you look at the third party sell units sold during that period you had two point seven two two point eight billion you have a midpoint of 2.75

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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

After going virtual last year, GroceryShop returned to a live event September 190-21 in Las Vegas. Scot: [21:05] Yeah yeah I didn’t get a shipping notification sometimes maybe it maybe it is coming earlier we’ll see. GroceryShop is a trade show dedicated to the grocery and CPG industry, with a particular.

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Retail Bound

MAY 22, 2022

For this and other reasons, many retailers not only survived, but thrived (think Home Improvement, Grocery, and Apparel). Since then, levels have dropped to 15% — higher than pre-pandemic but lower than the highest levels in early 2020. Now instead of scrambling, the NRF reported that major U.S.-headquartered

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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. And I really you know the rating review moat and the return rate that’s action and MCX that it’s really really important to us because that shows.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Right I go out of the inventory that’s getting unpacked right now is Home Improvement and apparel that had a like a nice Spike. Scot: [45:03] I am not I’ve never been able to get those things to work in my house so I’ve always tried the robots and then return them they always get stuck under a chair.

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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. E-com returns 10-15% growth rates.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Retailers now compete with social media networks for eyeballs Apparel has shifted from designer led to consumer led, as evidenced by the meteoric rise of Shein. Scot: [3:46] I feel like we should create a new word for this I’ll work on it in the vein of a ship again yeah that’s just boring I don’t know. PDF Download).

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The old model of brand trust is giving way to product-based loyalty, where consumers return not because of the brand name but because of the product’s quality or the associated experience. This new drop culture, where excitement builds around smaller, curated releases throughout the year, has become the new norm.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2022

Foot traffic is down in CBDs and shopping centres as consumers return to working from home. Managing staff in isolation means a drop in sales as well, given 20 per cent more people are locked in the house undergoing isolation. And stores are short-staffed as the highly contagious Covid-19 variant forces hordes of people into isolation.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2025

Australian omnichannel retail fulfilment, returns management and recommerce startup Shiperoo has already built a reputation for its combination of a broad, scalable business model that makes no differentiation between small pureplay online retailers and large multinationals. All that stock was equivalent to cash sitting on a pallet, ignored.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Under the “de minimis” rule, which seeks to reduce customs paperwork, the United States exempts foreign packages valued at US$800 or under from tariffs as long as they’re shipped to individuals. The European Union and other countries are considering similar restrictions. “The United States is just one country.

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