Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2024

The customer experience is paramount to the success of today’s retailers. This includes enhancing in-store inventory, delivery services and even the personalization of customer service. However, when it’s time to check out, how do payment options factor into that customer experience?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

trillion in 2025, and this growth means that AR experiences will “have the potential to change the social commerce game for brands targeting tech-savvy consumer demographics,” according to a recent TIME report. Your advertising creative needs to give your audience — in this case your target customers — something they find valuable.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2024

The study of 12,000 people across 14 countries found that consumers will reward brands that embrace humour with loyalty, advocacy and repeat purchases. A whopping 41 per cent of customers would walk away from brands that don’t make them laugh and smile on a regular basis. And what brand doesn’t want to improve its consumers’ recall?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

In today’s new normal, the shopping experience is no longer defined by the boundaries of bricks-and-mortar, but by the customer journey as a whole. Consumers now expect retailers to engage them whenever and wherever they want, with a shopping experience tailored to their individual needs. And consumers can feel it.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Throughout my career as a customer experience (CX) practitioner, I’ve seen brands make the same mistake time and again by believing that metrics alone improve customer experiences and loyalty. Too many organizations are content with merely managing their experiences and setting better metrics as their only North Star.

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Hyken

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This week we feature an article by Apira Giriharan, a Marketing Manager from Blackchair with extensive knowledge of all matters related to CX solutions. She writes about how contact center agents can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. What is a CX management platform?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2024

Today’s consumers are craving a truly unique shopping experience. We are only at the beginning, and as brands begin to scale their AI utilisation, its full spectrum of benefits for consumers and retailers alike will be uncovered. And how will it shape the way we shop? And one of the foremost concerns is security.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

For retailers, inventory hoarding by bad bots has become a critical challenge to manage during the holiday shopping season. As retailers prepare for the upcoming holiday shopping season, they need a strategy for managing the inevitable bad bot traffic that will land on their site. Get Ahead of the Bad Bots: Start Planning Now.

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I Vend

JANUARY 13, 2022

iVend Retail Management Suite iVend’s retail technology helps retailers in returns management. Returns Management: Returns drives sales and satisfaction Returns management is an integral part of the overall customer experience and your returns policy is therefore an important element.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2024

The future consumer is a #mood. By now, it’s a given that consumers expect personalized brand interactions and offerings, but it’s not just functional benefits they’re after. The most successful brands will connect emotionally to their customer base – and give them space and permission to experience a whole spectrum of feelings.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Personalization is now a hygiene and customers have come to expect it regardless. Source: McKinsey However, personalization is no longer limited to targeted offers in the current landscape; it now covers the entire customer journey. A positive customer experience makes a valuable difference in a retailer’s success.

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Hyken

AUGUST 13, 2021

He writes about how successful, global brands use social media to deliver outstanding customer service experiences. Social media is a powerful tool that can encourage customers to acknowledge a job well done. It has shifted the goalposts for businesses as online customer feedback can be viewed by any user.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Despite the “still-tough consumer backdrop”, as CEO Mary Dillon acknowledged in August, Foot Locker remains focused on its big-picture goal of growing revenue from $8 billion to $10 billion. and it’ll spit out the answer,” Quincey said at the Consumer Goods Forum’s global summit in Japan earlier this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2023

The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data highlights a significant deceleration in inflation, now standing at half of last year’s peak. This moderating trend in inflation is an encouraging development, but it is not without its caveats, particularly within the dynamic and complex terrain of the retail and consumer goods industries.

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Hyken

OCTOBER 22, 2021

He shares six ways companies and their brands can deliver an exceptional customer experience. Companies and their brands are no longer built through advertising but through experiences, and these experiences are customer-driven.? . Here are six ways you can deliver an exceptional customer experience. .

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

And we push the limits using high-performing feature engineering technology that can successfully manage Big Data data marts, provide visibility for business intelligence users and guide marketing campaigns. Companies need to reimagine how they manage customer data marts, as these can no longer be manually maintained and managed.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Great product diversity, changing consumer demands, and the expansion of e-commerce have turned inventory management into a major pain point for retailers. Poor inventory management results in overstocking and under-stocking, impaired cash flow, and losses from theft and spoilage. Here are some reasons why: 1.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Customer experience (CX) has long been a strategic focus for business-to-consumer (B2C) retailers who understand its role as a key driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and retention. Despite this understanding, many retailers still under-invest in their B2B customer experience.

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Customer Experience Payment Services Accounting Target Market 130

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

In today’s market landscape, ethical, political and environmental considerations increasingly sway consumer purchasing decisions, particularly when it comes to packaging. From exaggerated health claims to misleading descriptions of ingredients, deceptive labeling erodes consumer trust and undermines brand credibility.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 14, 2023

But in a race to the bottom are we creating a battlefield that will only encourage consumers to shop around and switch? And the way to do this is by creating experiences for customers over and above discounts and sales. Existing customers tend to spend nearly a third more too. And it starts with your people.

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Customer Experience Employee Engagement Marketing Management 130

365 Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Having found out that “traditional” management tools have become less relevant, brands were forced to rethink their processes to survive, stay relevant and true to their audiences. . On the one hand, operational changes and on the other hand, changes linked to the user experience.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

As Australians adopt the latest digital payment methods, the future of frictionless, automated transactions will offer a completely new customer experience. Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online. Yet cash payments are expensive for businesses to manage.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

The upgrades are aimed at benefiting retailers as well as customers. Some of the planned improvements include barcode scanning, more efficient inventory management, easier options for adding product images and real-time support to fix any issues that come up.

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Cisco Retail

MAY 10, 2022

Automate NetOps to streamline business and IT processes and improve customer experiences while unlocking savings and increasing revenue. From home deliveries to streaming and video services, the past couple of years have taught us that customers crave tailored and personalized experiences—anytime, anywhere.

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Mulesoft

AUGUST 18, 2022

Consumers are accustomed to managing their finances online. In fact, results from a new Salesforce survey of more than 2,000 consumers show that financial services customers increasingly prefer digital experiences. The post How finserv companies boost digital customer experiences first appeared on MuleSoft Blog.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Under Armour has named Massimo Baratto to the newly created role of EVP, Chief Consumer Officer, to oversee all aspects of Under Armour’s consumer strategy across global marketing, ecommerce and retail. Kara Trent, a seven-year Under Armour veteran, will replace Baratto the SVP/General Manager of EMEA.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The apparel industry’s enormous global environmental impact has made it a primary focus of sustainability efforts, and consumers — or at least a significant portion of them — want to do their part. and globally, we need a message that will resonate with more consumers, not just young urbanites.

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Retail Customer Experience

JUNE 13, 2023

The optimal consumer experience relies on responsive product catalogs that enable retailers to showcase the right products to the right customers at the right time for the best chance at success.

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I Vend

MARCH 17, 2023

Ask any retailer and they’ll tell you that an enhanced customer experience is at the top of their ‘must do’ list. Improving customer experience is the key to winning new customers, keeping existing ones happy and bumping up revenue and profit. iVend helps retailers analyse data for an enhanced customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. Not surprisingly, many have found the data points to residential enclaves in and around cities where consumers live.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2021

Not only are they achieving energy efficiency, they’re impressing their customers, too. What began as a trend to “go green” is now making real differences in profitability and the way consumers see brands. Chain retailers face fierce competition today on many fronts, not least of which is just getting the customer into the store.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

For brands that have already been focused on enhancing the customer journey, the last year has accelerated the path to digital transformation. Powering customer engagement on the day of service has required many virtual meetings to help strategise workflows that make sense for each client. . Click and Collect no longer nice to have.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

Accenture surveyed more than 10,000 consumers in 16 countries and found that although we’re living in a time of “lasting uncertainty,” the “ resilient consumer ” is uncovering new ways to protect and control what is most important to them. As a result, consumer behaviors are becoming more complex.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The majority of consumer goods and retail (CGR) companies have accelerated their digital journeys over the last two years to better serve the growing number of online shoppers. Spotlighting the Customer Experience (CX). Connecting Employee and Customer Experiences. And it doesn’t stop there. Leading with APIs.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Digital shopping through eCommerce and mCommerce platforms have fast become the go-to for many customers looking for a quick, hyper-personalised and flexible retail experience from the comfort of their own home – or on the go. Empowering store associates .

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Fueled by consumers’ desire for safer, socially-distant-friendly entertainment during the pandemic, the increased interest in outdoor recreation has driven growth for outdoor gear and apparel retailer Backcountry.com.

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Hyken

JULY 17, 2023

Top Takeaways: Employee experience is the new customer experience. According to Deloitte’s State of Inclusion survey , nearly 2/3 of workers have experienced bias in the workplace, and 40% experience bias at least once a month. Customers buy and support companies that care about the same things that they do.

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