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Maximize Your Success in Holiday Retail with Expert Strategies

Small Biz Trends

Key Takeaways Understanding Dynamics: Recognize that the holiday retail season is crucial for both shoppers and businesses, with strategies that blend creativity and commerce to maximize success. Understanding these dynamics enhances your opportunity for success during the holiday retail season while fostering community relationships.

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Loyalty Redefined

365 Retail

programmes, like Starbucks Odessey and Nike Swoosh, proved a wrong turn as customers failed to adopt the Metaverse in retail. The reason is the increased value of first-party data for retailers and brands, especially to unlock the personalisation potential of AI.

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5 Emerging Retail Technology Trends In 2025

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Fulfillment: Speed and Efficiency at the Core In today’s retail environment, providing fast and efficient order fulfillment is non-negotiable. Retailers are investing in technologies that streamline checkout, improve in-store fulfillment, and integrate digital systems to speed up operations.

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How Retail Loyalty Programs Hook Gen Z: A Marketing Strategy That All Students Need to Learn

365 Retail

In today’s competitive retail environment, successful loyalty programs feature digital-first capabilities, such as: Mobile Apps & Digital Wallets: Retail chains such as Starbucks and Nike have set the bar high with app-based loyalty programs, offering targeted discounts, rewards tracking, and frictionless checkout experiences.

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The 2017 Omnichannel Holiday Strategy Advantage

Wiser

Making returns easier for shoppers removes some of the barriers to checkout. Between their bookstores in cities across the US and their recent announcement that shoppers can drop off their returns at certain Kohl’s stores, they’re out to prove that in-store and online can work together well, even on a massive scale.

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Trending The Rules: Top Retail Trends Are Trending At An Unprecedented Rate

Retail TouchPoints

Earlier this year, we released a report, titled “The Best Vision is Insight,” outlining our predictions for the top retail trends of 2020. Now, the newfound immediacy of the trends has, if anything, made them more insightful. Online retailers of daily necessities may be inundated with overspill from closed physical stores.

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‘The Best Vision Is Insight’ — The Top Retail Trends Of 2020

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers are responding with several new strategies, including creating unique, seamless experiences by engaging shoppers and opening more channels for them to earn and burn rewards. They’re turning to solutions that allow consumers to connect loyalty programs with any payment card and collect points or rewards at checkout.