A1 Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

To do so effectively, however, retailers need to optimise their payments ecosystems now to put in place the right framework for expansion in the future. Consumers also became more open to experimenting with new payment methods, with many consumers saying they tried out a BNPL service last year. Creating backend efficiencies.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As global apparel revenues plummeted almost 20 per cent in 2020, e-commerce has emerged as the silver lining of the fashion industry’s challenging year. E-commerce fashion sales are expected to grow almost 39 per cent between 2020 and 2023. Online shoppers want variety – and they want it for everything, including their payment options.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2021

Flexible payment provider Affirm is expanding its range of services to include the post-purchase experience with the acquisition of online returns solution Returnly for approximately $300 million. Retailers such as Walmart , Bonobos and Peloton currently use Affirm to offer customers flexible payment options such as Buy Now, Pay Later.

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365 Retail

MAY 8, 2024

True Fit , the leading AI-driven platform that decodes size and fit for shoppers and fashion retailers, has announced that, following its launch in Shopify at the end of 2023, it is now driving a 14% average GMV growth for fashion brands on the platform, giving rise to the next generation of scaling fashion retailers.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

And when shopfloors get busy, a reliable payments solution is essential – which is why CommBank’s new Smart terminal is the perfect addition to your store this holiday season. That means merchants need to be prepared. So having a robust payments system with minimal downtime is critical.”. Handle payments the Smart way.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. Leaders in the industry understand they need to strategically address the post purchase journey and optimise for cost at each step while continuing to deliver a seamless customer experience.”

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. Leaders in the industry understand they need to strategically address the post purchase journey and optimise for cost at each step while continuing to deliver a seamless customer experience.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cybersecurity company Kasada recently revealed that cybercriminals have compromised more than 15,000 customer accounts of Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez, liquor retailer Dan Murphy’s, streaming service Binge, home shopping network TVSN and Event Cinemas since November.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2023

Countless companies both big and small — including Meta , Pinterest and Google — are trying to tackle the challenge of making shopping online more like shopping IRL, where inspiration can strike at any moment and from any direction. One of the newest entrants in the space is Shoptrue , which launched in open beta in November 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2024

As a one-stop destination for everyday needs, Walgreens services millions of people every day,” said Ryan Vero, CEO at Claire’s in a statement. Claire’s has focused on partnering with complementary retailers and big-box merchants in order to boost its market presence.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

Situated in The Americana at Brand shopping mall in Glendale, California, the huge space is part retail store, part warehouse. The innovative fashion store looks and feels like any other. Personalised service. Amazon Style has cleverly integrated its personalised shopping service into bricks-and-mortar.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2021

As retailers look to source more ethical, natural, and eco-friendly products, Ollee has launched Australia’s first local and ethical B2B marketplace to help merchants connect with purpose-driven brands. The post Australian B2B marketplace Ollee connects merchants with ethical brands appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2022

The industry’s latest move: accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment. The launch of Hublot’s special Bitcoin edition of the Big Bang model, valued at approximately US$25,000 at the time, was a resounding success. Since the beginning of this year, a number of brands have begun to process crypto payments in-store.

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Secure Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The chances are that you’ll use Secure Retail’s products and services at least once today. We’re behind some of the world’s biggest brands, providing the hardware, software and infrastructure to ensure your payments are fast, reliable and above all, secure. This gives them complete control of Their Payments!

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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. Here’s a look at some of those initiatives and where Wish is focusing next: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

and European merchants access to sell on its marketplace, which had previously only been open to China-based merchants. and Europe who order from merchants in their own region. debut later than Shein, but after a major marketing push that kicked off at last year’s Super Bowl, Temu quickly overtook Shein as the No.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2022

And just as the metaverse will change the way that we shop, communicate and socialize, it will also change how customer service is delivered. Like the physical world, goods and services sold and consumed in the metaverse are not immune to issues that require customer service to solve. Here’s how….

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2023

And there’s plenty of money at stake. Retailers are discovering the power of generative AI for streamlining the process of onboarding new products for ecommerce product catalogs, using AI models trained on a wealth of specific product data. Global ecommerce sales, representing 22% of all retail sales, could increase to $5.4

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

At the same time, just to complicate things further for retailers, Gen Z actually likes to shop in physical retail stores, according to the study. strikes Gen Z as cumbersome, slow and old-fashioned. They want shopping to be fast and fun — less of a process. And they represent a market segment that retailers can’t ignore.

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365 Retail

MAY 16, 2023

Clearpay, a leader in Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), has announced partnerships with household and garden retailer wilko, parenting favourite Online4Baby and one of Europe’s fastest growing ecommerce businesses OnBuy – allowing these retailers to offer online customers more flexible payment options.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

When it comes to embracing ethical commerce and moving corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies forward, Amazon Web Services (AWS) research shows that retailers and CPGs identify three primary hurdles to success. This category includes discount stores, mass merchants (“big box stores”) and businesses focused on specialty hardlines.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

We speak with Yoox Net-a-Porter’s APAC general manager Natalie Lee about the resilience of luxury spending amidst an economic downturn, the importance of localisation, personalisation and incredible customer service, and how the company is using technology to improve the way it operates.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Some fashion retailers today use visual outfitting to help them carve out fresh brand positioning and show product versatility. One leading example: Express , which is transforming from “a store at the mall” to a brand with purpose powered by a styling community. They provide merchants with oversight and full control (vs.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The team behind this concept — led by Landini Associates — was given the opportunity to throw out the rules of retail and take a clean-sheet look at how to use floorspace. The Federal Government’s Australian Postal Corporation Act of 1989 mandates a network servicing the nation, meaning that the Post store count is largely fixed.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

RH (Corte Madera, CA) will open a four-level design gallery at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, CA that will feature a rooftop restaurant and wine bar, the luxury home furnishings retailer announced. The gallery will also include an in-house interior design firm and atelier to provide services.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2022

As Alejandro Osorio, Country Head of Grab Thailand, puts it, “We’ve seen this opportunity in the soaring demand for food and package delivery services that’s made our delivery partners with their delivery bags increasingly become a significant touchpoint. If you look at the penetration of grocery delivery, it’s 1 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

It either becomes dreaded waste or is severely discounted, resulting both in a growing problem for the planet and a financial loss for merchants. So why aren’t merchants processing these returns in efforts to recoup these massive losses? Fortunately, there are remedies to fix this broken process. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But at the same time merchants’ margins are being squeezed, making intelligent pricing and promotions strategies even more critical for success. You have marketing, creative and the brand vendors who are sometimes the ones initiating the promotions, so it’s a more complex process that is starting to get streamlined by technology.”

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365 Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Fashion brands are pivoting to offer new, value-add delivery services and improved post-purchase experiences to enhance sales, encourage customer loyalty and protect margins, the latest data from parcelLab , the leading operations experience platform, reveals.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Retailers worldwide have battled slowing conditions, with Australian footwear giant Accent Group and American fashion brand Guess recently highlighting the impact lower consumer confidence is having on the wider market. There are a lot of online merchants vying for their dollar and they can easily compare prices.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the company’s Senior Director and General Manager of Omnichannel, Sharon Gee has been at the center of the massive shifts taking place in ecommerce over the last year and a half. The company sees itself sitting squarely in the center of the pack, catering primarily to mid-size businesses with $1 to $50 million in online revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Jason Del Rey is a veteran business journalist who spent a decade at Recode reporting on Amazon , Walmart and how technology is transforming retail. Through in-depth reporting and interviews with employees and executives, the book offers an inside look at the companies’ “bare-knuckle power struggle.” 8 division ?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2022

per cent) are now aware of BNPL services, overtaking traditional online payment platforms like Paypal, Visa and Western Union, according to Roy Morgan’s Digital Payments Report last year. Not only has awareness of BNPL services grown quickly but already over 3.3 Dion Appel, CEO at Openpay Australia & New Zealand.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 8, 2022

NEW YORK — As consumers progressively purchase a wider spectrum of goods and services via digital currencies, U.S. merchants are reflecting a greater optimism, prioritization and implementation of alternate payments to meet this demand. Banking and Capital Markets Payments Leader.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Customer who sell their luxury products to Fashionphile have the option of receiving payment in the form of a Neiman Marcus gift card and receive a 10% discount on the gift card value. Now, NMG has acquired a minority stake in Fashionphile and plans to open Fashionphile Selling Studios in an additional nine stores over the next nine months.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

With users and revenue currently at all-time lows, new CEO Vijay Talwar has a herculean task ahead of him as he works to bring this ecommerce giant back to its feet. People love a comeback story, and I really believe there is something here [at Wish] — there is a value proposition and [an opportunity] to align with consumers.

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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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