Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

That assumption seems to be confirmed by research published by Cotton Incorporated via their Consumer Response Surveys. The Second Wave research results from April 27, 2020 showed that 73% of respondents expect this pandemic experience to change the way they shop in the future. BOPIS Fulfillment Options.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

That sense of unease is to be expected from a cohort shaped by both the 2008-2009 Great Recession and the COVID pandemic, and it’s had a big impact on their shopping choices: nearly half ( 48% ) say they shop the most often at discount/off-price retailers, and 25% frequently patronize dollar stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

Fulfillment was a key driver during the ecommerce-driven final quarter of 2020. Its retail performance exceeded Moody’s analyst expectations, and margins held up well despite heavy competition from rivals like Walmart , Target and Best Buy , according to Charlie O’Shea, VP at Moody’s.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Malls were once the nucleus of “shopping culture.” But many shopping malls have endured an identity crisis. However, that doesn’t mean consumers don’t want to go to malls. Coresight also found that traffic at top-tier malls was up 12% in 2022 over pre-pandemic 2019 levels, while traffic was up 10% at non-top-tier malls.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s been more than four years since mall operator Simon launched its ecommerce joint venture with Rue Gilt Groupe , and the Shop Premium Outlets (SPO) marketplace is going strong. We look at ourselves as more of a shop-in-shop than a marketplace , and the reason I say that is we collaborate with brands more than most other marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Consumers now look for personalization throughout their interactions with a retailer at multiple touch points. Retailers are still at a nascent stage of personalization efforts for their customers. Consumers feel valued when greeted by their own name in emails and messages sent by retailers, but this is not enough anymore.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

Notably, the highest spending levels came at the beginning and end of the season. In the final weeks leading up to Christmas and post-Christmas, we saw digital sales spike again,” said Rob Garf, VP and GM of Retail at Salesforce in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “ trillion , up from $1.1 trillion in 2020, while U.S. 18 and Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2023

The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data highlights a significant deceleration in inflation, now standing at half of last year’s peak. In response to this unpredictable economic landscape, consumers have recalibrated their shopping habits, demanding businesses to exhibit a newfound agility and innovation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2020

For consumers, that’s a lot of power. Retailers that can provide a satisfying shopping experience have a strong advantage, but consumers are a demanding bunch. Similarly, the likes of Walmart and Target provide flexible fulfillment options like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS) paired with convenient curbside pickup.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Euromonitor International, a global market research company, recently unveiled its report on the top global consumer trends, which delves deep into the dynamics shaping consumers’ values and shopping motivations, shedding light on the profound influence of artificial intelligence (AI), sustainability initiatives, and socio-economic factors.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But supply chain pressures and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the pandemic means that consumers are focusing less on how immersive and entertaining in-store shopping experiences are and more on how safe and efficient they are. RTP: It seems like consumer priorities fall into two main buckets: ease/convenience and health/safety.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional fulfilment has been evolving for a long time. In the 60s people would call their fish ‘n’ chip shop or grocer ahead of time to arrange their order. Forward-thinking retailers have always been looking for engaging ways to help their businesses stand out via their fulfilment options.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s an experience common to almost every traveler — you stay at a hotel and fall in love with the mattress, the sheets, the lamp. Mint House Shop Your Stay page for its NYC location. A room at the Mint House 70 Pine location in NYC. But at Mint House the shopping happens in the real world — just not in a store.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

At Microsoft, we break down the metaverse i nto three strategies: consumer, enterprise, and industrial. Consumer metaverse. Centred around online gaming and Xbox, providing a platform for users to collaborate, engage with immersive experiences to explore, play games with their friends, and shop. Games & Engagement.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Customer retention With both consumers and retailers feeling the pinch of increasing costs, customer retention will be a key theme of 2024. According to research from McKinsey, 71 per cent of consumers expect companies to deliver personalised interactions. Four key trends stand out as high-growth opportunities for online retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

The spring and early summer was an optimistic time for many consumers who finally emerged from lockdowns looking to refresh their wardrobes and find items suited for smaller local outings during the warmer months. Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. Target’s physical comparable sales grew 8.9%

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supermarkets are some of the biggest retail businesses in the world, so it’s no surprise they are at the forefront of industry trends and innovation. Here, he shares the new tech that has caught his eye, and how changing consumer behaviour is affecting the business. It looks at hand movements and what people are doing.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Based on customer insights and market trends, Swisslog, as an industry leader with successful micro fulfilment centres (MFCs) and e-grocery fulfilment centres (EFCs) operating across the globe, has identified five trends that will shape e-grocery fulfilment this year. E-grocery orders get smaller and more frequent. .

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now the company has become the first toy brand to test out the hottest new arena in digital selling — TikTok Shop. Now it’s here: first launched in the UK and several Asian markets, TikTok Shop was quietly made available in the U.S. in November 2022. in November 2022. We’re nimble and super entrepreneurial.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The intersection of traditional shopping and ‘online experiences’ is unavoidable. It has gone through a rapid period of change from the primary way we shopped, to its death being prematurely called ‘ the showroom problem ,’ to continuing to be a critical piece of consumer brand strategy. It’s still retail, but it’s not.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

Inside Retail spoke to Rosanna Iacono, CEO and advisor at The Growth Activists, to unpack the potential strategies driving fast-fashion brands to enter the premium garment space. Premium collections could be an attempt by fast-fashion brands to be seen as both accessible and aspirational shopping destinations for consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. And just like last year, it looks like consumers will respond by turning to ecommerce. This is causing many Americans to stress this holiday season.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2024

Best Buy is rolling out new features in its mobile app to better personalize the shopping experience. New AI-powered features include: A personalized home screen that is constantly updated based on a user’s preferences, shopping habits, membership status and where they are in their technology shopping journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

by storm, rising to the top of the app charts and garnering millions of fans, until consumers began to realize the cost of those ultra-low prices — long delivery times and often poor quality products. And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023. When Wish debuted in 2010 it took the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Three of the country’s biggest retailers are taking significant steps to get consumers into the holiday shopping groove — and to do so (much) sooner than later. As we approach the holiday season, guests are excited to shop early,” said Christina Hennington, EVP and Chief Growth Officer at Target in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With the start of another year in the new normal, retailers are still questioning how to best engage with consumers in the post-pandemic world. In the past two years, consumers’ expectations and preferences have vastly changed. If one thing has become clear during the last two years, it’s that consumers value options for convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s the question every retailer wants the answer to: what do consumers (and more specifically, those likely to buy their products) really want? The day kicked off with a keynote presentation by Jeff Orschell, EY Americas Practice Leader: “Bottom line for retailers is that change is still happening, consumer behavior is still changing.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“This fall, we opened our 2,000 th store and continued to expand Ross and dd’s footprints across our existing markets as well as in our newer states,” said Gregg McGillis, Group EVP of Property Development at Ross Stores in a statement. “In billion in Q1 2021 to $4.3 billion in Q1 2021 to $4.3 billion to $4.6 The reason?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

Back-to-school surveys across the retail sector point to a strong season, spurred by pent-up consumer demand. In fact, 58% said school would be a bigger deal this year and 56% said they are more excited about shopping for back-to-school items this year. The Compression of Shopping Seasons Will Continue.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

million as consumer behaviour adjusted in a post-Covid environment and the company wrote off a major asset. million compared to the previous corresponding period when ongoing lockdowns had boosted demand for online shopping. The post Booktopia’s first-half profit slip as consumer demand shifts appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The pandemic has been a challenging time for shopping centers, and even as vaccination rates climb and shoppers return to old habits, retailers are finding that many of their shopping preferences have permanently shifted. believe open air shopping centers with the right mix of retailers are more important than ever before.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

In 2022, a National Retail Federation/Prosper Insights and Analytics survey indicated that 56% of consumers had started their BTS shopping by early July, with 81% planning to shop sales the week of July 11. But generally speaking, consumer sentiment is still quite positive — we need to see if that holds up over the summer.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With COVID-19 case counts declining and vaccination efforts underway, eager consumers and retailers are both looking hopefully toward a future return to normal. The pandemic has forever altered consumer behavior, and this year in particular consumers find themselves in a kind of limbo — hope is on the horizon, but “normal” isn’t here yet.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

Consumers believe that sellers, distributors, and e-commerce stores share responsibility for ensuring product authenticity, with a desire for more ways to verify authenticity and reliable customer service. Our goal is to create a seamless shopping experience based on the foundations of great value, convenience, and trust,” he stressed.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

Despite a successful holiday shopping season, retailers face numerous hurdles in the year ahead. However, with consumer sentiment low and economic concerns still front of mind, this approach could backfire. Virtual fitting technologies help consumers make the right selection the first time. According to the NRF, U.S.

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