Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

The cost of returns keeps ecommerce operators awake at night — so much so that some large retailers have adopted a “just keep it” policy towards certain purchases, opting to issue a refund without asking for the merchandise back (a trend that may prove unsustainable for both margins and the environment if consumers come to expect it).

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Happy Returns by PayPal has teamed with Staples US Retail to offer the Happy Returns in-person service, adding more than 1,000 Staples retail locations to its return service. “Staples is a destination for all things shipping, especially for small businesses and remote workers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Inflation is driving up shopping prices as we head into the holiday season, a time when many people already feel pressured to go all out on gifts for family and friends,” said Colleen McCreary, consumer financial advocate and Chief People Officer at Credit Karma in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. said Pandya. “

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon). 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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The latest iPhone 15 series, despite its technological advancements, has experienced lacklustre sales in China, with Jefferies analysts reporting a 30 per cent drop in Chinese iPhone sales in the first week of 2024 compared to the same period the previous year. or 12.12, people are anticipating better promotions from vendors.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the impacts of the most unique holiday in decades are still being felt: retailers should plan for continued shipping delays in the short term, and also continue to refine their omnichannel operations as they prepare for the rest of 2021. Contactless Services Can Soothe the Bite of Remote Returns. 11 through Dec. 1 through Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

However, unchecked abuse of returns policies can put a merchant out of business: 54% of the merchants surveyed in a study conducted on behalf of Forter indicated that they lost more than $5 million in revenue each year due to returns abuse. Processing legitimate returns can negatively impact a retailer’s bottom line.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The San Francisco-based platform shipped its vast array of discounted products straight from their factories. “[The This included launching an invite-only merchant programme, adjusting its supply chain to make its famously slow delivery faster, and boosting the customer shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Fortunately, not long into the crisis, search behemoth Google paid attention to these companies’ needs, announcing in April that merchants would be able to list products on its Google Shopping platform for free. Here’s how you can make the most of the service. of all clicks. Adding Products to Google Shopping.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The wholesale product manufacturer creates, packages, and ships the product out to your customer for you, making this a low maintenance business model. When a retail customer orders an item, the dropshipping company blind ships the item to the customer. Why You Should Drop Ship. Why You Should Drop Ship.

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Rangeme

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, thousands of subscription box services exist, but perhaps some of the most well-known companies are FabFitFun , Birchbox , Hello Fresh, BarkBox, and Dollar Shave Club. Morgan Brod, Merchant Developer at SnackMagic, expresses that she sources brands that have unique, specialty products. Source: Kustomer.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

distraction, scrambled for everything from at-home fitness equipment and games consoles to. The lucky ones managed to balance stock levels reactively, replenishing a steady. Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained – and in 2022, they have dropped. factors at play. business. considerably. the pocket.

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Hyken

JUNE 17, 2022

This week we feature an article by Devin Pickell, Growth Marketing Manager at Privy. Did you know that 8 out of 10 consumers say they’re enrolled in at least one text message marketing program? Or that 63% of online shoppers have made at least one purchase within the last 90 days from a text marketing campaign? .

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Small Biz Trends

APRIL 15, 2021

Besides having a brick-and-mortar shop, going online to offer your products and services comes with lots of opportunities for your business. An eCommerce platform is a software application that helps businesses sell products and services online. Top 12 Ecommerce Software Options for Small Business.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

ecommerce merchants pulled in $10.8 For example, you might offer a flash sale just for the customers in your loyalty program or on your email list — or at least offer them a preview window of a couple of hours before you announce the sale to everyone. That includes frictionless payments and checkout and fast shipping options.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Some clever new ideas at least attempted to be implemented in that and you know some of them I’m sure we’ll be cool side note and I maybe shouldn’t disclose this on the podcast. Another one we look at is like various credit worthiness and so like mortgage delinquencies is a good proxy for consumer health.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The service will be the latest addition to the FedEx Returns portfolio, which also includes printer-less and package-less return options at more than 10,000 locations nationwide. FedEx Consolidated Returns will be facilitated through supply chain services offered by FedEx Logistics and FedEx Office.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

The result — a suite of data insights tools called Walmart Luminate — is now being used regularly by Walmart merchants and suppliers under the banner of the company’s Data Ventures division. Ultimately, the two come together at the shelf, which is the point of conversion. What are people buying? That tells us the “what.”

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

If you if you kind of look at the retail industry average. and they came in at 22. and they came in at 22. percent from last year so so. [5:15] 5:32] You know before all this inflation stuff started the Fed was always trying to keep inflation between two point two and three percent so. [5:39] percent from last year so so. [5:15]

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

People are like turning off Mass mandates and it felt pretty good and so the show was sold out the hotel was fully booked and if you if I just popped you on at the trade show for. Jason: [3:44] Yeah it depends I because I feel like there’s a couple of different cohorts at Eddie tell like there is a cohort of them.

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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).

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

2023 Predictions Recap Jason : At least 2 retail bankruptcies (besides Party City) Yes BNPL Consolidation (Klarna, Affirm, Afterpay. Sezzle) – at least one merges/exits US or BNPL. At least 1 top 20 retailer launches a digital in-store ad network AI is even hotter at end of 2024 than now. Shein successful IPO.

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Star Miconics

AUGUST 26, 2022

Companies need new technology to reach customers and give them convenient ways to purchase products and services. Single-suite providers can simplify point-of-sale (POS) deployments, from hardware devices to cloud-based tools, through subscription-as-a-service (SaaS) models. Many of these services provide ongoing IT support.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

The conversation shifts towards the burgeoning ads business at Amazon, underlining its profitability and future growth prospects. And they looked at me like I was from another planet and it was hilarious. And obviously they’re, you know, strangers recognize my voice in line at Starbucks at all these e-commerce shows.

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

Scot: [0:57] You should do the whole episode and jar jar speak well said Jason what’s a new at the Amazon what. 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.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

ShopTalk 2023 took place at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas March 26 – March 29th, and seems fully back to pre-pandemic levels. Yeah I feel like usually at work is when I get get kind of caught up in those things but in the ones I saw a companies do were just like so outrageously silly.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2021 total revenue was $31.16B growing at 32% Year over Year. So we had that and then you know I went back and looked at our notes and our prediction was that this was going to put Facebook in a world of hurt. Key Topics: Amazon North American Revenue grew 18.4% in 2021, which was just above the industry average of 17.9%

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Jason: [1:07] I have I have and I’m with you now I’m not sure I was with you at the beginning it took me a little while to warm up to it. But definitely the last three or four episodes have been a lot more engaging so now I’m eager for the next episode to come out.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2021

Such as buying the bedding used in a boutique hotel room you are staying at. Marc founded Monoan after previous commerce experiences at Jet.com and Walmart. Marc can be reached at sayhello@minoanexperience.com. You came to start at the company. Marc: [1:44] Yeah sure so I was an early employee at jet.com.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Mallageddon continues At least another 8k stores Yes 8721 stores +1. Installment Payments heat up – At least one company is acquired (Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, QuadPay, Sizzle) Yes (IPO’s). Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Merge with Alibaba?

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

Last Updated on July 3, 2023 Ecommerce merchants are no strangers to using Google Merchant Center. 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. First, log in to Google Merchant Center.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

That’s how we get paid here at the Jason Scott show we get paid by per review of so we really appreciate that. [1:31] You know that didn’t have to close in April at all like they’re up 15% year-over-year largely because they they didn’t have as big a drop last year. [12:02] Um and shop for apparel. [3:41]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 28, 2021

If you’re interested in selling your FBA business to Perch, you can reach them at info@perchhq.com. Chris: [2:17] Definitely yeah so I started my career early on I was a computer engineer actually and I my first job was at General Electric Milwaukee designing and implementing software. Transcript. What you did prior to perch.

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