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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

Of course, there are reasons why certain kinds of products haven’t been as quick to become ecommerce mainstays — mailing a live tree will never be as simple as shipping at T-shirt, for example. There’s a lot of COVID effect in those numbers, but the trajectory is clear — consumers want to shop online, for everything.

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Shoppers’ In-Store and Online Expectations for 2019

Wiser

To learn more about the changes consumers are looking for in the coming year, Wiser has surveyed over 2,400 of our mobile app users about their 2019 shopping preferences. In store shopping is still very prevalent, even with the increasing availability of online retailers. This year is no different. In-Store Preferences.

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4 Ways Businesses Can Use Shipping to Reduce Cart Abandonment

Retail TouchPoints

While it’s easy to rationalize cart abandonment as a standard practice, it is much more than a modern-day version of window shopping. Many factors can contribute to a consumer’s decision to abandon a full shopping cart before checking out. The True Cost of Shipping. Negotiate shipping rates.

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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. BORIS (Buy Online Return In-Store): Concentrates on reverse logistics. Payment, return, and exchange policies.

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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 two questions and more can be answered by testing prices over time. .

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Everything You Need To Know About Shopify POS Hardware: Cost, Where To Buy, & More

Merchant Marverk

The add-on includes advanced features, such as unlimited registers and omnichannel selling features that include giving customers the ability to buy in-store and having the item shipped to their home. One benefit of purchasing equipment directly from Shopify is that Shopify offers 24/7 support for that hardware and risk-free 30-day returns.