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For Forever 21, Omnichannel Experiences are Key to Staying a Gen Z Favorite

Retail TouchPoints

To do it, Forever 21 is: Making significant investments to align its digital and physical channels ; Enabling fast, frictionless checkout ; Meeting Gen Z where they are, on social media, to drive discovery ; and Listening to its customers to evolve its brand in line with their expectations. Forever 21 one-click checkout with Bolt.

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Pinterest’s Mission: Make its Platform the ‘Starting Point for Shopping Journeys’

Retail TouchPoints

Unlike other social sites, where users typically log in without a particular aim and scroll through a feed, Pinners generally visit the platform with a specific purpose in mind. These two traits make the platform a prime forum for social commerce, and Pinterest knows it. “ Lurie: [In-app checkout] is in the pipeline.

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Google Cloud’s Carrie Tharp: Forget Omnichannel, Retail Needs to be ‘Channel-less’

Retail TouchPoints

Not just the physical store of the future, like frictionless checkout and things like that, but a lot of our retailers are focused on associate enablement right now. This includes things like optimizing pick, pack and ship in stores with AI-based solutions.

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What are the Top Commerce Trends for 2022 and Beyond?

Retail TouchPoints

The desire to optimize the customer journey will extend to the checkout process. We’re seeing more traction among companies that help brands offer quick, single-click checkouts to drive conversions and reduce cart abandonment. Combined with personalization, improved checkout experiences can also enhance brand loyalty.

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

Retail Next

Half shipped, half in store? Ship to store? This could include any one or combination of stores, catalogs, social media, the phone, online. Allbirds (via Shopify), to highlight one retailer, offers pick up in store and fulfills orders via ship from store. . Social commerce. They are in control.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). 31:44] Social commerce still has a bunch of avenues like live streaming does not appear to be a high volume one in the US and then later in the month.