Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2024

While off-site advertising has become a prime target for growing retail media networks as they look to compete amid increasing competition, Kroger has only made its data available in one other major DSP, The Trade Desk , prior to this deal with Yahoo. “Advertisers on average see 6.5X

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Competing on price presents several challenges to margins, but offering smaller and newer products can help retailers build an assortment on attributes such as sustainability and quality. Retailers looking to tout these attributes in their assortments can get a head start with smaller brands that have gained shoppers’ trust.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Chase touted the “unparalleled insights across consumer categories” that will be available to its advertising partners through the slate of travel, dining and shopping offers that the bank makes available to its customers. acquired in 2022 with the goal of building out an “owned, two-sided commerce platform.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2024

Instacart has launched the Instacart Developer Platform (IDP) , a publicly available API program that will enable third-party companies to integrate Instacart’s fulfillment and delivery functionality into their websites and apps. for meal planning or cooking content, for example).

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Fulfillment Planning Consumer Shopping 246

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Boxed attributed the filing to “the challenging business environment,” which led to the “difficult yet necessary decision to wind down its retail ecommerce operations” despite the company’s best efforts. Retail generated nearly all of its $41.7 million in net revenue while the software business generated approximately $100,000.

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Consumer ATS 293

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

Currently available in Germany, where Tom Tailor is headquartered, the app will eventually be expanded into additional markets. In addition to product lookbooks, the new Tom Tailor mobile app simplifies product navigation and features tools such as built-in cart rules, filter attributes, stock levels and push notification capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When a component or material becomes scarce or expensive, substituting a readily available alternative keeps production schedules on track while reducing costs. Streamlined inventory management: Leaner inventories reduce holding costs; however, retailers must be resourceful when planning for product availability.

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Customer Experience Inventory Management Fulfillment Inventory Turnover 229

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2023

The company has included France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the UK in the location drop-down menu on its website, alongside the countries where Temu was already available, which include the U.S., can be attributed at least in part to its owner PDD Holdings , also the parent of Chinese ecommerce juggernaut Pinduoduo.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2023

Available exclusively on Petco.com, Freshpet Custom Meals are crafted by veterinary nutritionists using natural chicken, beef, salmon or eggs, real fruits and vegetables and never any powdered meat meals or preservatives. Owners can then select their preferred delivery window for the food to be sent via Petco’s delivery services.

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Planning Consumer ATS Fulfillment 190

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2023

Two new entrants into the world of resale, Carhartt and Hanna Andersson , serve very different consumer segments, but both are highlighting the same brand attribute with their resale programs — their products’ durability. Categories available for trade in include outerwear, shirt-jacs, bibs and overalls, hoodies, sweatshirts and pants.

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Returns Accessories Apparel Consumer 260

Retail Gazette

MAY 15, 2024

to £937.73m (BRL6.1bn), which it attributed to a tough quarter for beauty brand Avon. to £214.4m (BRL1.3bn), due to “reduced representative activity from fewer available reps and the continuation of weaker promotional execution”. Sales dropped 5.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Value-Based Attributes. Often referred to as value-based pricing, value-based attributes help product and merchant teams determine which attributes consumers value most, which can directly impact the product and its price.

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Retailing Pricing Markdowns Consumer Marketing 248

Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2024

He said the supermarket had “worked hard” to reduce prices, including “doubling down” on its Aldi Price Match offer and Clubcard Prices promotion, which is available on around 8,000 products each week. Tesco revealed its pre-tax profits had skyrocketed 159% to £2.29bn in the 12 months to 29 February, up from £882m last year.

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Supermarket Promotions Returns Marketing 135

Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2023

Australian Retailers Association CEO, Paul Zahra, said sales growth for essentials like food is “largely attributable to inflationary price increases”. While consumers tightened their purse strings in previous months, they seem ready to spend when the occasion arises or when sales promotions are readily available.’’

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Promotions Department Stores Accessories Consumer 240

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2022

As the name suggests, the overchoice effect occurs when a buyer is overwhelmed by a large number of options available, often resulting in the person abandoning the decision-making altogether, or worse, taking their business elsewhere. To elaborate, when a shopper searches for ‘Apple’, the search could show all the available Apple products.

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Consumer Accessories ATS Shopping 269

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2023

As the retail media landscape continues to grow , Uber is expanding the types of ads available to CPG brands on the Uber Eats platform, and Sprouts Famers Market is leveraging Instacart ’s Carrot Ads platform to launch its own retail media network. The new offering is currently available in the U.S.

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Advertising Grocer Marketing Consumer 258

Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2023

While there is a vast quantity of valuable data available, from web browsing and shopping behaviour to mobile payment data, many brands are struggling to analyse this information and draw actionable insights from it. Even finding the right tools to carry out analysis can be challenging.

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Fashion Marketing Accounting Promotions 130

Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2022

“As a surfboard manufacturer at heart our connection to surfing starts at a studio level and I wanted season one to really reflect those unique DNA attributes as we introduced this new category for the brand,” said Cox. The new collection is now available exclusively from mrporter.com and haydenshapes.com.

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Fashion ATS Accessories 130

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AI’s effectiveness hinges on the quality and quantity of data available. Visual Search The next evolution was visual search, which uses AI to identify key elements in a photo and translate them into descriptive attributes like product category, color, texture, material, style, cut or occasion. Multiply that by the 33.4

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Jewelry Accounting Customer Experience Consumer 242

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The strength of Amazon’s marketplace business growth in Australia can, in part, be attributed to the fact that shoppers stay with Amazon even when the products they want are not available. Notably, 80 percent of shoppers who were in the $200,000 income bracket bought on Amazon, reflecting its strong reach among higher-income consumers.

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Consumer Apparel Planning Shopping 130

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 4, 2022

These include up to 15 billion events and can reveal insights not readily available in standard explorations. Attribution: GA4 provides enhanced attribution capabilities, including a new Conversion paths report and property-level attribution modeling that offer more insight and actionability to ecommerce sites.

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Accounting Boutique Marketing Planning 238

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Whilst we remain cautious about the timing and pace of market recovery, we are confident in our proposition and energised by the opportunities available to us to build an even stronger customer-focused business as we continue to make good strategic progress which will allow us to accelerate profitable growth as trading conditions improve.”

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Consumer Marketing ATS 110

Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2024

Scientists and innovators are working towards creating a new generation of silk fabrics that can match the textile’s positive attributes without harming the environment, according to the latest report from the Material Innovation Initiative (MII). The complete list of next-gen silk material innovators is available in MII’s 2023 Silk Report.

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Fashion Accounting Promotions Accessories 246

Retail Gazette

MARCH 26, 2024

” Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free Sign up here to g et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning Gibson attributed the positive first quarter performance to “the strong growth of core M&S grocery lines and the debut of Makers Market”, which spotlight’s smaller brands. .”

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Grocer Marketing ATS 111

Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Pre-tax profits for the gardening retailer plummeted to £130.8m in the 52 weeks to 5 March, a steep drop from the £21.3m loss the year before. Sales dropped 8% from £303.6m Sales dropped 8% from £303.6m

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ATS 110

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They will then be shown matching products available for purchase. Product attributes platform Lily AI closed a $25 million Series B financing round in August 2022 that will help fuel development in this area. You can’t find a shoppable link or any product details, or it’s way out of budget.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2021

The retailer attributed the results to strong growth across multiple KPIs and geographies, including ecommerce growing 55% to $545.1 The retailer attributed the positive results largely to a massive increase in third-party revenue: sales through marketplaces and third-party retailers reached $11.8 Net revenue reached $1.2

Jewelry 241

Jewelry Department Stores Returns Shopping 241

Inside Retail

AUGUST 4, 2021

This vital understanding of attribute importance and performance across those shopper groups — you must retain, or need to win — provides the ability to confidently improve product propositions, inform packaging and new product development and to ultimately authentically communicate with shoppers to grow mental availability.

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Shopping Consumer 130

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Generative AI has only been publicly available as a friendly user interface since November 2022, and it’s already being embedded in retail operations such as customer service, marketing and even new shopping experiences,” said Michelle Grant, Director, Strategy and Insights for Retail at Salesforce in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “If

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Store Operations Shopping Marketing Management 276

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2024

Many of the gen AI tools being made available to advertisers and sellers on these tech platforms offer to generate images or text, such as varied backgrounds for a product ad or product listings (jobs that typically try the patience of the humans tasked with them).

Advertising 254

Advertising Merchant Services Social Commerce ATS 254

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2023

With access to the right data, retailers are driving a shift in how CPGs are going to market, increasingly investing in areas where they can track attribution from the initial digital touch point with a consumer all the way to a store visit. Tapping into the growing value of first-party data.

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Advertising Promotions Consumer Management 218

Wiser

MAY 7, 2024

Results That Pour Success Execution Improvement: A remarkable 40 percent improvement in execution was observed during the promotional period, attributed to the utilization of real-time insights and a multi-contact model encompassing crowdsourcing field visits and direct phone calls.

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Management Promotions Point of Sale Location 78

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Yahoo Member Connect, a new suite of solutions purpose-built to power media networks for brands, is also powering off-site media business for Lowe’s One Roof Media Network, which will include digital out-of-home (DOOH) and additional third-party supply available through the Yahoo Exchange.

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Advertising Promotions Retail Marketing Marketing 190

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ready shared that for the back half of the year, Pinterest will be focused on providing a more seamless user experience for retailers and consumers by expanding the availability and integration of its mobile deep linking (MDL) capability.

Payment Services 222

Payment Services Social Commerce Accounting Customer Experience 222

Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2023

With 97 per cent of platform searches not connected to a particular brand or business, retailers of all sizes have the potential to be discovered – provided they can leverage the insights and trends available to them. The platform’s vision is to make everything on Pinterest shoppable.

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Advertising Department Stores Shopping Planning 228

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2023

In order to answer questions about the available colors included in the latest product release, the bot needs access to product design files stored in the product lifecycle management (PLM) system and product descriptions or material lists from the product information management (PIM) system.

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Customer Experience Shipping Management Marketing 219

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2022

So much of this data is more readily available than one would imagine — data is collected by browsers and servers using cookies such as device type, plug-in details, language preferences and time zones. Of note: Just because a browser can be available globally doesn’t mean that it will be optimized to work sufficiently in all locations.

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Merchant Services Consumer Payment Services Location 226