Inside Retail

MARCH 24, 2024

ShipStation, a global leading provider of shipping software solutions, has announced its continued investment in the Australian market. These enhancements include the introduction of checkout rates, shipping strategies, auto-split, ODBC support and custom labels.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Challenge of Managing Returns “Returns were a huge issue in 2022, and consumers are looking at return policies as a key component of their purchasing decision-making,” said Schwartz. One popular way to throttle back return rates is to shorten return windows, but during the holidays this can result in a zero-sum game.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

ShipStation, the multichannel, multi-carrier shipping, and fulfilment e-commerce platform, is poised to redefine the retail landscape, offering innovative features to streamline workflows and enhance the overall shopping experience. Think of Shipping Strategies as automated rate shopping, saving time and money.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

One of Wish’s biggest tactics to turn the tide has been improving the shipping experience in terms of both cost and speed. Earlier this year the company introduced flat-rate shipping that imposes a standard delivery fee of $2.99 Additionally, Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish, with revenues down 42% YoY to $78 million.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

The retailer will still offer its free-to-join Target Circle loyalty program and plans to enhance it by providing its 100 million+ members with access to automatic deals applied at checkout. Program members will be able to earn Target Circle Rewards and save with personalized deals.

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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. Fulfilment, shipping, delivery and returns updates can all be enriched with personalized promotions, loyalty program information and other immersive, branded content.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

Available to retailers that also sell on the Amazon Marketplace, the expanded seller offering will see Amazon associates pick up and deliver online orders from retailers’ stores to Prime members who select the option at checkout. Amazon then sends the order to the store and a retail store associate fulfills it.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Another key challenge for Hot Topic’s inventory management system is ensuring its BOPIS options run smoothly even as it fulfills orders across multiple channels. The company leans on its omnichannel fulfillment software to ensure these transactions run smoothly. It manages our BOPIS component.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A business model that was only possible with their unparalleled investment in the systems and shipping, fulfillment and supply chain infrastructure to support it. Third-party fulfillment and logistics companies also have emerged to support the burgeoning direct-to-consumer ecosystem.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2023

” Prime Day Sales that Don’t Happen on Amazon.com Late last year, Amazon unveiled a surprising new service — Buy with Prime , which lets sellers offer all the benefits of Prime membership (simplified payment processing, fast delivery, easy returns) on their own DTC websites. Also, Amazon gets more happy Prime members.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

The retailer will still offer its free-to-join Target Circle loyalty program and plans to enhance it by providing its 100 million+ members with access to automatic deals applied at checkout. Program members will be able to earn Target Circle Rewards and save with personalized deals.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

Not Just Digital-First but Mobile-First Gen Z consumers (and probably a fair number of older shoppers) are looking for more streamlined, integrated mobile experiences, particularly in the area of checkout. interactions and automated return experiences. That can mean automated chatbots for WISMO [Where is my order?]

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

That means showing customers high-quality images, answering frequent questions on sales pages, using an FAQ or chatbot for other concerns (like shipping times or costs), and reducing the number of hoops they have to jump through for the checkout purchase. Then, create what you think would be the most enjoyable checkout process.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Other KPIs that the brand monitors include sales volumes across channels, overall revenue growth and the returns rate, which is crucial for maximising profitability and customer satisfaction. It has also enabled the brand to ship from store if an item is out of stock.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve. which Yan said should enable faster shipping times on those products for North American customers. Reducing shopping and shipping friction. The company also is considering offering free shipping on orders above certain spending thresholds.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

I 100% believe that in five years, people are not going to go to a website that has a list of products and search it and add to cart and checkout,” said Agha, Founder and CEO of Flip in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. It’s a very Amazon-esque model, including fulfillment services for brands that reach a “certain scale.”

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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. With the pandemic, that was one cohort that came to us. I trust that I can have that omnichannel experience.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

Efficient logistics ensures accurate and timely order fulfillment of customer orders. Ensure you compare different eCommerce platforms as they feature varying degrees of logistics integration that can impact order processing, shipping and delivery. However, it features high initial costs for warehouse space, staff, and operations.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

Efficient logistics ensures accurate and timely order fulfillment of customer orders. Ensure you compare different eCommerce platforms as they feature varying degrees of logistics integration that can impact order processing, shipping and delivery. However, it features high initial costs for warehouse space, staff, and operations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

After so much Covid-19 disruption and damage, the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show returned to the Big Apple with an equally big bang last week. As consumers return to stores post-pandemic, they are seeking out intuitive and personalised interactions that surprise and delight, with the option for frictionless self-service.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

Checkouts. A robust, streamlined, automated checkout will help boost sales significantly as customers can quickly move from the RFQ/quotation stage to placing an order online literally anytime, anywhere. . Once you have shipped an order (or maybe even beforehand), you’ll want to get paid. The result?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic’s impact on shopping habits isn’t abating: 66% of respondents will prefer home delivery over other fulfillment methods, according to a survey by Oracle. Adding to the overall shipping volume will be those consumers who would normally have purchased a gift in-store and brought it to the recipient themselves.

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365 Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Report benchmarked performance across key operations experience metrics – including checkout, shipping and returns. 28% of fashion retailers now offer delivery passes, up 6% since 2020 when just 22% of fashion merchants offered this format of fulfilment and compared to just 17% of other retail businesses.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 20, 2022

Members will have the flexibility to shop from merchants directly, all while enjoying the fast, free delivery, seamless checkout, and easy returns they’ve come to know and love from Amazon.”. Pricing is based on a service fee, a payment processing fee, and fulfillment and storage fees that are calculated per unit.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Forrester predicts retailers, which are already facing operational and supply chain challenges, will react to the uncertainty in 2023 by shifting to managing rising costs by rolling back offers such as free returns or delivery, and investing in optimization technologies such as order management systems.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2021

The digital transformation aims to improve fulfillment capabilities for customers and allow them to choose how, when and where they want to shop. This gives us the opportunity to provide endless aisle, click-and-collect, ship-from-store – that real connected commerce, omnichannel experience.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Wherever they shop, members of Gen Z are looking for a friction-free customer journey: 46% rate quick and easy checkouts as the most important factor in their shopping experience, followed closely by fast shipping ( 45% ). Free returns, at 31% , and quick/helpful customer service, at 27% , also are vital elements.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The immediate need for confirmation, the subsequent days of eagerly awaiting delivery updates and perhaps even the occasional need to exchange or return items. Use AI to preemptively identify potential shipping delays or issues and inform customers before they reach out, demonstrating both efficiency and care.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JANUARY 11, 2023

If getting the order to you is expensive what about returns? This process of ordering and returning goods is very expensive. million on “refunds, returns, and discounts”. High marketing costs are one reason for Casper’s struggles but returns have also eaten into the brand’s profitability. Take mattress retailer Casper.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

It’s meant to be quite simple for a shopper, but as an ecommerce retailer, you know it’s not that easy — especially if the customer changes their mind and wants to return said magical shipment back to your shop. What happens next, by way of return experience, most certainly impacts whether they will purchase from your business again.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 17, 2022

By working with Roku, we’re the first to market retailer to bring customers a new shoppable experience and seamless checkout on the largest screen in their homes – their TV.”. They will be taken to a checkout screen with their payment details easily pre-populated from Roku Pay, Roku’s payments platform.

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365 Retail

MARCH 1, 2022

The agility that headless commerce provides will enable brands to deliver the type of experiences online shoppers are increasingly demanding such as fast, easy, and frictionless shopping and checkout experiences – which will also help brands reduce shopping cart abandonment.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, they need to support omnichannel services like BOPIS, ship-from-store and seamless returns. Are consumers returning products less often? Baird: A lot of store renovation efforts are being driven by the expanded role of the store. Did you open up the lifetime value of an existing customer?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2021

Also to blame are overly complex checkout processes, invalid discount codes, security concerns, questionable return policies, comparison shopping, etc. The list goes on, but one other barrier to purchasing seems to be a major sticking point for 63% of consumers : shipping costs. The True Cost of Shipping.

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Retalon

JUNE 11, 2021

And retailers are rushing to offer new fulfillment options, like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS), curbside pickups, cashless checkouts, drop-shipping, mobile shopping and more. Refusing returns is likely to reduce e-commerce sales. Reducing fulfillment options decreases the level of customer service.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?

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