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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. The ease of online shopping also gives consumers the ability to comparison shop more quickly, showing them more options in less time.

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

Retail TouchPoints

There’s a lot of COVID effect in those numbers, but the trajectory is clear — consumers want to shop online, for everything. The same holds true when it comes to shopping for large plants like shrubs and trees — a lot of the initial research and discovery already is happening online, but the transactions still largely take place in-person.

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Zebra Technologies releases 16th Annual Global Shopper Study

Mass Relators

–   Zebra Technologies Corporation  has announced the findings of its 16 th Annual Global Shopper Study that confirmed retailers are feeling the omnichannel squeeze, particularly with managing online returns and reducing shrink caused by theft, fraud and other contributing factors.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

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? How does BOPIS work?

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Why Pricing Optimization Is Required in Online Retail

Wiser

With competitors just a click away, and comparison shopping engines making it easier than ever for consumers to find the lowest price, having that competitive intelligence on hand and taking action accordingly is a requirement. . These factors include: inventory levels, price elasticity, and seasonality. .

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Online vs. Offline Retail – Blurring the Line between Bricks and Clicks

Retalon

This has spurred a lasting debate about whether or not brick-and-mortar stores will remain relevant as more and more consumers subscribe to the convenience of shopping online. Plus, going into a retail store significantly reduces the potential for returns and increases upsell opportunities. Still, real-world retail operations persist.

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Retail AI & Predictive Analytics Blur the Line between Bricks and Clicks

Retalon

This has spurred a lasting debate about whether or not brick-and-mortar stores will remain relevant as more and more consumers subscribe to the convenience of shopping online. Plus, going into a retail store significantly reduces the potential for returns and increases upsell opportunities. Still, real-world retail operations persist.