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After Summer Sale Comes Amazon Prime Day — Retailers Must Prepare

Retail TouchPoints

One of the more jaw-dropping retail statistics of the past few months is the more than 400% increase in Walmart shopping app downloads. After the summer sale, it will be time for retailers to regroup and determine what their best move should be in October, when the spotlight is on for early holiday shopping.

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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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Frugal Shoppers: The Untapped Shopper Base You Can Reach to Win the Holiday Sales Season

Retail TouchPoints

It’s never too early to start preparing for the holiday shopping season, especially this year as brands and retailers are gearing up for ‘Shipageddon’ part two. While the pandemic accelerated ecommerce demand, it also changed the way consumers shop online, increasing the number of ‘frugal shoppers.’

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Zebra Technologies releases 16th Annual Global Shopper Study

Mass Relators

Many retailers expect to deploy loss prevention analytics (49%) and demand planning and forecasting (54%) by 2026. While omnichannel shopping causes challenges for retailers, most shoppers prefer options. As omnichannel shopping continues to grow, the volume of returns increases along with it.

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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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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?

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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. .