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4 Steps Retailers Can Take to Market Themselves in a Recession

Retail TouchPoints

Marketing is often first on the chopping block during a recession, and with GDP contracting two quarters in a row, retail marketers are working hard to determine how to make each dollar go further. Many organizations will cut marketing spend in a bid to preserve margins. Capitalizing on In-Store Advertising.

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Ecommerce with Flair: Digital Tools for a More Inspiring Online Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce can sometimes lose the experience of in-person shopping and, with it a retailer’s ability to show off its products in ways that can set a store apart from its competition. Ecommerce sites can now highlight products in new and interactive ways that make the discovery process more fun for consumers.

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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

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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After Summer Sale Comes Amazon Prime Day — Retailers Must Prepare

Retail TouchPoints

Brands can use Amazon’s June summer sale shopper data to help formulate their Prime Day strategy, such as better targeting and personalization based on comparison shopping habits, price sensitivity and search behavior. Last year, a study noted that 68% of shoppers planned to comparison shop against Amazon on Prime Day.

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Retailers: Leverage Customer Data to Navigate Lower Spending Due to Inflation

Retail TouchPoints

forcing retailers to grapple with remaining relevant to increasingly price-sensitive consumers. Illustrating the consumer response to the Fed’s activity, on June 15 the U.S. We’re doing everything we can to help this customer stretch their budgets.”. What do customers see when they ask for things? 7% increase.

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Cars, Wine, Trees — COVID-19 Proved Once and For All that You Can Sell Just About Anything Online

Retail TouchPoints

Propelled by new technologies and heightened consumer demand, some segments that had been slower to gain traction online finally moved into the digital fast lane — cars , adult beverages and even trees , to name just a few. And yet, the consumer demand is there, and it’s becoming hard for retailers to ignore, no matter their category.

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New California Legislation will Require Some Retailers to Adopt Gender Neutral Children’s Sections by 2024

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The law, which is the first of its kind in the US, requires that all qualifying retail locations that offer childcare items or children’s toys maintain a gender neutral section or area where a “reasonable selection” of toys and items shall be displayed together, “regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or boys.”.