Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2024

This year, shopping online takes no more than a few clicks – but getting those carts to checkout and beyond? At Starshipit , we surveyed leading retailers from around the globe for our latest report, Evolving Expectations 2024 , to bring you the freshest insights on what truly drives customer satisfaction in shipping and fulfilment.

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Checkout Shipping Fulfillment Customer Experience 147

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2024

The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience. Last year, it implemented several self-checkout stations for its market concessions.

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Checkout Customer Experience Merchandise Store Consumer 212

Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Powering customer engagement on the day of service has required many virtual meetings to help strategise workflows that make sense for each client. . Some need to manage the logistics of holding cold items for pickup and ensuring that store attendants fulfil all parts of the order. Click and Collect no longer nice to have.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Simon Properties is partnering with Dropit to bring omnichannel inventory management and fulfillment capabilities to its facilities. Dropit layers AI technology into existing fulfillment systems to empower merchants to use real-time data that powers dynamic decision-making to balance inventory, optimize sourcing and streamline returns.

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Returns Merchant Services Fulfillment Inventory Management 225

Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

This means customers will be able to place an order online conveniently for products across the full Ikea range, with the option to pick them up from Cannington. These actions ensure our co-workers can remain focused on ‘value-add’ engagements for customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Location-Powered Experiences Drive Results. Location infrastructure gives retail product and operations teams the ability to tackle logistical challenges and labor shortages while offering customers an improved experience in-store and during order fulfillment. Offer rapid turnaround for on-premise orders.

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Location Payment Services Checkout Customer Experience 242

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As discount shopping app Wish continues its comeback effort , parent company ContextLogic outlined its plans for 2023 at a summit for its merchants — including a major overhaul of the platform’s shipment pricing structure in order to bring down shipping costs for customers. The brand also opened a pop-up shop from Dec.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Digital shopping through eCommerce and mCommerce platforms have fast become the go-to for many customers looking for a quick, hyper-personalised and flexible retail experience from the comfort of their own home – or on the go. Empowering store associates .

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Customer Experience Checkout Fulfillment Consumer 84

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

region or individual stores, reducing energy consumption and utility costs without negatively impacting the customer experience. Interconnected IoT devices, including GPS and RFID tags, allow retailers to track the entire journey of their products, from production to the customers’ sites. Exceptional customer experience.

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Payment Services Checkout Inventory Management Customer Experience 229

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offering excellent customer service is a business basic at any time of the year, but it’s particularly vital during the holiday season. Unfortunately, the nature of holiday shopping also makes customer service issues more problematic. We’re getting to the point where EX puts a cap on how good your CX can be,” said Walker.

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Retail Focus

MAY 1, 2024

NYSE: FL), has unveiled its new retail concept that delivers an elevated shopping experience and unrivaled customer service. At Foot Locker , the retail store experience is the heart of sneaker culture. “Our Foot Locker, Inc. and will incorporate learnings from this concept into new stores.

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Store Layout Checkout Shopping Planning 147

Retail Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Already working with hundreds of retailers and brands, Scurri added a mixture of enterprise and mid-market retailers, including The Perfume Shop, BrandAlley, Victoria Plumbing, Loake Shoes, LeMieux and Weird Fish, to its roster of clients last year.

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Management Fulfillment Checkout Promotions 147

Hyken

APRIL 8, 2022

He shares how retailers can understand the digital customer experience in the retail world. Did you know that 70% of consumers have stopped doing business with a brand following a poor customer experience? An experience through the customer’s buying journey is quite crucial and must be addressed by the retailers.

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Customer Experience Payment Services Home Furnishings Fulfillment 62

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Optimizing Customer Journeys Contactless technologies such as RFID and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications can dramatically improve inventory accuracy, a key element of optimizing customer journeys: “Most retailers are losing as many as 8.2

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Payment Services Checkout Fulfillment Kiosk 339

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

For our customers it’s all about breadth.” Hot Topic has found that predictability — not necessarily speed — is among the most important aspects of the customer experience. The company leans on its omnichannel fulfillment software to ensure these transactions run smoothly. It manages our BOPIS component.

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Inventory Management Management Fulfillment Supply Chain Management 251

Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Localise your home page and checkout experience and invest in some marketing so you can start to assess demand. Making the whole international shopping experience seamless is a journey that takes time, so don’t expect everything to be perfect right away,” she continues. A clear and seamless returns experience is critical.

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Planning Shipping Returns Customer Retention 290

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One variation of Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere function on The Independent ‘s site. It makes it very easy for services and publishers like The Independent to open up their own shops with the complete inventory, but without actually holding that inventory.”. “So IndyBest’s centralized shopping section.

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Merchant Services Checkout ATS Fulfillment 251

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The first wave of ecommerce was mostly about price, while the second wave is all about the customer experience. Getting your buyers through the checkout page is only half the battle. Does your order fulfillment strategy live up to your customers’ expectations? Speeding up of order processing and fulfillment.

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Shipping Merchant Services Fulfillment Checkout 279

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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Discount Store Shopping ATS Payment Services 262

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2023

ecommerce sales this holiday season are forecasted to reach $273 billion , a 1% year-over-year growth rate, according to the Salesforce Shopping Index , which tracks online data and preferences of 1.5 BOPIS’ value increases even more after holiday shipping cutoff dates, when as many as one in three orders are fulfilled via BOPIS.

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Returns Fulfillment Shipping Checkout 217

Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

FMI’s annual research report, The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2022, finds that food retailers are focusing on investments in new technologies (73%) like foodservice ordering and delivery, dynamic pricing, and mobile checkout systems. Retailers report they are also expanding numerous fresh or perimeter departments.

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Customer Experience Checkout Fulfillment Shopping 52

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

More than 800 customers completed the survey, which was designed to gauge confidence and overall satisfaction in the grocery shopping experience thus far during the pandemic — 97% of those surveyed had visited one of T&C’s stores within the previous month. What We Learned. Communication was increased across all channels.

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Shopping Checkout Location Planning 216

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

In today’s challenging business landscape, where profit margins are shrinking, supply chains are slow and uncertain, labor shortages are prevalent and inflation is a concern, it is crucial for retailers and brands to differentiate between understanding customer habits and fostering customer loyalty in order to succeed.

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Checkout Shipping Customer Experience Point of Sale 218

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Associates play a crucial in the omnichannel customer experience. They create a face for the brand and use their personal experiences and opinions to guide shoppers seamlessly through the decision-making journey. If shoppers begin their journey in a store, they can easily finish it online.

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Payment Services Checkout Customer Experience Planning 312

Retail Bound

JANUARY 12, 2023

Therefore, to be successful, eCommerce retailers and eCommerce order fulfillment services need to understand the new trends in consumer shopping behavior. They also need to adopt business strategies that meet the current expectation of an online customer to improve the customer’s experience.

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Shipping Payment Services Consumer Shopping 52

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

We’re always looking for more ways to make grocery shopping easy, fast, and affordable for all of our customers, and are excited to offer Amazon Fresh grocery delivery to customers without a Prime membership in a dozen U.S. Prime members will be charged service fees of $3.95 for deliveries of $50 to $100 and $9.95

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

Online grocery shopping has surged since COVID-19 made consumers wary about visiting brick-and-mortar locations in person, and this new partnership was established to help make the process easier for customers. Yahoo Mail users will get personalized grocery recommendations based on their Yahoo profiles. Yahoo is owned by Verizon Media.

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Shopping Checkout Consumer Location 190

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

This ultra-fast connectivity — when paired with other technologies such as IoT, computer vision or cloud computing — will enable everything from virtually enhanced, personalized in-store shopping to real-time planogram compliance to up-to-the-second SKU-level supply chain tracking. Fast, Frictionless Checkout.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

It is one of the world’s largest aggregators for independent and DTC brands, which sell through Verishop’s website and mobile app, and provides new ways to shop with personalised content feeds and livestream shopping. It has also enabled the brand to ship from store if an item is out of stock.

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Boutique Apparel Fashion Wholesale 130

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2022

The pandemic has shifted post-purchase expectations — consumers expect a more personalized, relevant-to-them experience that goes beyond checkout. For retailers, this creates ample opportunity to engage their customers using untapped touch points.

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Fulfillment Shipping Returns Promotions 236

365 Retail

APRIL 18, 2024

Already working with hundreds of retailers and brands, Scurri added a mixture of enterprise and mid-market retailers, including The Perfume Shop, BrandAlley, Victoria Plumbing, Loake Shoes, LeMieux and Weird Fish, to its roster of clients last year.

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Management Checkout Fulfillment Promotions 104

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

The LVMH -owned retailer did have to play a bit of catch up, though, when it came to omnichannel fulfillment , fast-tracking the roll out of services like BOPIS and launching new innovations such as virtual beauty consultations. But if they have two good experiences, they’re hooked for life, so the bar is high.

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I Vend

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Read more Retailers who understand their customers and use that knowledge to personalize customer engagement benefit on two fronts: Closing the gap – between the online and instore experience, to offer a true omnichannel retail experience.

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Checkout Inventory Management Payment Services Returns 105

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC — first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery checkout lines back in 1974 — hasn’t changed. Consumers want more information about the products they buy, and retailers want more visibility into the products their customers buy.

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Merchant Services Inventory Management Grocer Customer Experience 271

I Vend

OCTOBER 10, 2023

RIS has rounded up the key research carried out by expert consultants and curated it into an overview of the likely shape of this holiday shopping season. Retailers have to grow their share of a finite wallet, making promotions and customer experience an essential part of the retail mix.

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Checkout Inventory Management Payment Services Returns 105

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Panelists shared insights from the Salesforce Shopping Index , which collected responses from more than one billion consumers worldwide, and the annual Sixth Edition: State of Marketing Report , which was released this May. Given the proliferation of shopping platforms, retail marketers are striving to make the checkout experience easy.

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