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Does Procurement Play a Role in Retail Recovery?

Retail TouchPoints

For most types of consumer retail stores, the pandemic scared regulars away, diminished traffic from visitors, altered consumer preferences, snapped formerly reliable supply chains and required dramatic shifts in the way stores serve their clientele. But that’s only part of the story.

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2024 Industry Trend Guide

Storis

Additionally, as in-person shopping is expected to accelerate , furniture retailers can modernize store design to enhance the environment. Retailers are also offering services within their spaces. They simply shop. Buy with Prime” enables Shopify merchants to use Amazon’s payment and fulfillment services.

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15 Return Policy Examples

Small Biz Trends

A return policy can save business owners, their employees and their customers (both traditional clientele and online shoppers) plenty of headaches by defining when and how items can be returned or exchanged. The precise formula will vary by store, and whether or not the merchant has eCommerce stores or a brick-and-mortar location.

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5 Marketing Strategies To Help You Find New Customers

Retail Minded

The social distancing restriction for example meant that more people are shopping online than in brick-and-mortar stores. You may also want to enter a partnership with those stores that have the same clientele as your business. You can use these platforms to conduct a quick survey and even obtain feedback on your products or services.

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Inside Westfield Century City’s Infrastructure Supporting Experiential Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Collaborating to Keep ‘Disruptive Concepts’ Brand-Relevant Because Salvador’s core focus is to bring new and more abstract concepts into WCC, Schillace provides a critical gut-check, ensuring that these ideas fit into the overall “storytelling of the shopping center,” and align with what both consumers and retailers expect, Schillace noted.

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4 Key Point-of-Sale Trends for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

The point-of-sale (POS) system has always been the one truly indispensable technology for any merchant, large or small. Features like AI-powered recommendations and dynamic pricing are personalizing shopping experiences. Simply asking ‘How was your shopping experience today?’

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The Adoption of Pop-Up Stores by Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

This retail format has a long history, dating back centuries to the earliest known travelling merchants, but has gained significant traction in the early 2000s as retailers and brand manufacturers incorporated temporary locations into their omni-channel strategies.