Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Brands quickly realized their sites and user experiences needed upgrades to address friction within the customer journey. Creating a Seamless User Experience. Reducing user flow and overall friction has been key in acquiring new customers and maintaining positive engagement for social commerce brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s no secret that retailers and brands have become obsessed with driving conversion in their quest to recover the more than half of shoppers who abandon checkout before completing their purchase. Maximizing that combination of factors can be accomplished at checkout, as long as it’s not stripped of all its goodness.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Here are four ways retailers can level up their store experience to boost customer engagement, brand affinity, and brand loyalty: Integrate Technology to Enhance the Customer Experience Successful retailers seamlessly blend technology into their physical spaces while keeping a personalized, human feel.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Airwallex’s report, this was one of the biggest influencing factors to purchase, with 93 per cent of consumers claiming that this impacts their decision to follow through at the checkout. Consumers in Australia’s key markets of China, Hong Kong and Singapore were especially inclined to use social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s one thing he’s learned about that generation, both at work and at home — they want what they want when they want it. “My For that generation, this,” Hawkins said holding up his cellphone, “is just who they are, and they demand a great experience — they want it now, they want it easy, they want it fast and they want it secure.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

While this is hardly a prediction at this point since generative AI has been all the rage, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t mention it as a core part of retail holiday strategies this season. Retailers will leverage this moment to focus on operational efficiencies and consumer connection.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

In today’s challenging business landscape, where profit margins are shrinking, supply chains are slow and uncertain, labor shortages are prevalent and inflation is a concern, it is crucial for retailers and brands to differentiate between understanding customer habits and fostering customer loyalty in order to succeed.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For example, a grocery store may hand customers “scratch and save” cards at checkout, capturing customers’ attention through the thrill of winning free or discounted items that will guarantee their return to that store. At Agora, Mullin connects great technology with great people, helping to bring their ideas to life.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For shoppers, paying for the items they want is a necessary evil at best and a complicated chore at worst (especially online). For the enterprise solutions we have Pay with Venmo checkout, which is the integrated checkout button that you see as you’re checking out with large businesses such as the Grubhub s and Lyft s of the world.

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Hyken

MAY 28, 2021

This week we feature an article by Megan Wenzl, the SEO Content Manager at Linnworks. She discusses what retailers need to focus on when it comes to total commerce and the effortless economy.?. Imagine a customer goes online to buy a new pair of golf shoes.? . But now, shopping is a constant experience. Done.? .

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2022

The report shows that investment into resolving these issues results in better customer experiences and higher sales volume. For each of these experiences, it identifies specific situational problems that customers face and asks how smart retailers can apply fixes to smooth out the weaker elements of their offering.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

But following a series of major strategic moves, the role Pinterest hopes to play in the burgeoning realm of social commerce is crystal clear. The company clearly plans to exploit these advantages as it pushes full steam ahead with a slate of new shopping features and new leadership at the helm. Spoiler alert — she got the job.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

In the not-so-distant past, customer experience (CX) was a straight line — a predictable journey from point A (the customer’s question) to point B (the company’s answer). Welcome to the future of retail, where the checkout lines are virtual, the service is personal and the experience is anything but linear.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The chatter of the store “being dead” is evolving from belief that the physical store is fading amid the shift to digital, to seeing that it’s the role of the store that is changing — and a vital one at that. Still, many retailers are opening fewer and often smaller stores with increasing expectations for top-notch experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

That was bumped to number two, and innovation is at the top this year.”. Priorities may be changing, but retailers still need to provide a superior customer experience, added webinar panelist Caila Schwartz, Senior Industry Strategist at Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Creating A Frictionless Experience That Lasts.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2022

As a result of more brands moving online (and consumers spending more of their days there), shoppers have become more digitally savvy at every point in the customer journey. . With numerous options for online shopping, including marketplaces, brand/retailer websites and social media, consumers are more channel agnostic than ever.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

Fake fashion e-shops According to researchers at Avast, an internet security company, more than 4000 fake e-shops were set-up to exploit consumer spending in the post-festive season sales. However, it is also a feeding ground for cyber criminals who prey on Australians’ eagerness for a bargain.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Walmart is expanding its ability to offer shoppable content at multiple touch points by teaming up with the streaming, social buying and selling platform TalkShopLive. The retailer can now provide this content via embeddable videos across Walmart.com, multiple media outlets, brand and talent sites and social platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

I 100% believe that in five years, people are not going to go to a website that has a list of products and search it and add to cart and checkout,” said Agha, Founder and CEO of Flip in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. After working for three years at the American energy company Baker Hughes, he decided he wanted “to build his own stuff.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

When a merchant tweets about an upcoming launch, followers will see a “Remind me” button at the bottom of the Tweet. cation 15 minutes before and at the time of the drop, alerting them to visit the merchant’s website for whatever coveted product has just arrived. At launch Product Drop is only available for U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

A panel at the June 2023 Retail Innovation Conference & Expo provided answers and insights in the session titled Gen Z and Gen Alpha: Creating Impactful Brands for the Next Wave of Consumers. It also means instant gratification of access , and that expectation translates to any integrated online experience,” said Garton.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

This is the seventh year of the Index , and while the company noted that top-performers “aggressively” rolled out optimized content, frictionless checkout and other cross-channel capabilities, there was a sizeable gap between industry leaders and their peers. As an example, curbside pickup exploded during COVID.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

Social commerce has quickly grown from a revolutionary idea to a mainstream concept, and the channel is expected to continue expanding to reach $1.2 The foundational lesson is that, while social commerce can be an outgrowth of a retailer’s traditional social media interactions, it’s both more time-sensitive and more time-consuming.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm has launched a series of new products under the Klarna Spotlight banner, all aimed at strengthening the company’s position as “a true shopping utility for consumers and a growth partner for retailers.” This is far from Klarna’s first foray beyond the world of payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

To attract a new generation of shoppers, retailers are looking to redefine go-to-market strategies and reimagine the customer experience inside their physical store locations. While necessary, these changes do make increased demands on the enterprise network, particularly at the edge where selling opportunities are constantly evolving.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

during coronavirus, the company culture at LUXIE and much more. Conor Riley: Several years ago, our products were promoted primarily through subscription boxes geared toward a younger consumer base at $10 per month , but then our brand was picked up by stores like Nordstrom. where it is being sold at higher price points.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

“The migration of some consumer activity to online browsing and buying indicates that if retail destinations are to maximize their revenue potential post-COVID, then they need to be able to embrace these behaviors,” said Diane Wehrle, Marketing & Insights Director at Springboard. “ Photo credit: Galleria Dallas. Photo credit: Easton. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Consumers increasingly want to do business with brands that reflect their values, from sustainability to social consciousness. 16, Kristin Shane, SVP Merchandising at PetSmart , and Gayitri Budhraja, Chief Brand Officer of e.l.f. 16 at 12 p.m. Practical ways to harness the enthusiasm of values-driven consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

Pinterest’s still relatively new CEO, Bill Ready, is doubling down on the platform being a positive environment in the increasingly toxic social media universe. “I I really believe in social [media], but I think there’s a Pandora’s box that was opened,” Ready said during a keynote at Shoptalk in Las Vegas. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 15 sessions, now available on demand, encompass critical areas of the retail enterprise, including: customer loyalty strategies; visual tech developments such as AR and 3D modeling; fulfillment and delivery management; the power of social networks; fast-growing Buy Now, Pay Later services; and the all-important customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

The move from school supplies and apparel to hardware and computers wasn’t at all surprising to us,” Sides explained. Parents prioritizing the learn-from-home experience. However, what was interesting is the amount of money that’s going to be spent on things like subscriptions for educational services.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Over the course of her career, Tharp led digital transformations from the inside at a host of companies, including Dean Foods, Travelocity, Neiman Marcus and Fossil. But now, at Google Cloud , she sees the opportunity to help usher in a new era of digital transformation for the retail industry as a whole.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2022

We expect to see some pandemic-era commerce developments continue with some new twists, and we’re watching some emerging commerce trends that may go strong beyond 2022 — all with the goal of creating richer, more engaging customer experiences and stronger bonds between customers and brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

TikTok also is facilitating these transactions within its platform — it quite literally owns the checkout. To do so, they must create experiences that cater to these expectations, and that means integrating the checkout within the content. And through commerce media, retailers can improve the consumer experience even further.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s seamless and can reorient around a customer’s changing needs, sometimes at a moment’s notice. . Customers (or should I say “shoppers”) don’t look at different channels. Shoppers look at a retailer and engage how, when, why and where they want to. Social commerce. Basically, shoppers rule.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). Scot: [1:14] Huh figures you never know where it’s going to come at you. Episode 297 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday October 4, 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” “Retail has survived since biblical times roughly in the form of a physical space with product available to sell and the exchange of funds for that product,” said Jonathan Sharp, Managing Director at the Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group.

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