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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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After Summer Sale Comes Amazon Prime Day — Retailers Must Prepare

Retail TouchPoints

Brands can use Amazon’s June summer sale shopper data to help formulate their Prime Day strategy, such as better targeting and personalization based on comparison shopping habits, price sensitivity and search behavior. Last year, a study noted that 68% of shoppers planned to comparison shop against Amazon on Prime Day.

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Frugal Shoppers: The Untapped Shopper Base You Can Reach to Win the Holiday Sales Season

Retail TouchPoints

.’ This shopper base is made up of consumers who only want to buy at a discount. With more and more shoppers spending time at home due to the pandemic, consumers started to enjoy the convenience of comparing multiple products and prices at a higher rate than before.

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Cars, Wine, Trees — COVID-19 Proved Once and For All that You Can Sell Just About Anything Online

Retail TouchPoints

Of course, there are reasons why certain kinds of products haven’t been as quick to become ecommerce mainstays — mailing a live tree will never be as simple as shipping at T-shirt, for example. At Vroom, unit sales increased 82% YoY in fiscal year 2020 , and revenue was up $916 million from 2019. were up 80% last year, approaching $5.6

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Retail AI & Predictive Analytics Blur the Line between Bricks and Clicks

Retalon

This has spurred a lasting debate about whether or not brick-and-mortar stores will remain relevant as more and more consumers subscribe to the convenience of shopping online. This is because today’s competitive advantage in retailing can often come down to the customer experience. Still, real-world retail operations persist.

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Online vs. Offline Retail – Blurring the Line between Bricks and Clicks

Retalon

This has spurred a lasting debate about whether or not brick-and-mortar stores will remain relevant as more and more consumers subscribe to the convenience of shopping online. This is because today’s competitive advantage in retailing can often come down to the customer experience. Still, real-world retail operations persist.

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How to Forecast Demand in Retail (2020)

Retalon

Demand is an economics concept that describes the willingness of consumers to purchase a specific product at a specific price. Therefore, demand forecasting is a statistical prediction of the willingness of consumers to purchase specific products, at a specific price, in a specific time frame.