Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

DoorDash has introduced Package Pickup, allowing consumers across the country to have the service deliver up to five return items per trip to UPS, FedEx or the USPS. Consumers can attach prepaid shipping labels to their returns or send a shipping QR code directly to their “Dasher” via the DoorDash app.

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A1 Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

With the aim of offering a new customer service and a great customer experience, Royal Mail will start offering returns and outbound drop-off services in an initial c. 200 sites by May 2024, with the expectation that Royal Mail will ultimately use lockers in 3 000 locations as the UK network grows in the coming years.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Consumers can now drop off damaged or outdated toys of any brand at any of the 40 Toyworld locations nationwide – or ship them directly to TerraCycle. There are certain types of toys that cannot be dropped off for recycling, however.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Saks has partnered with TerraCycle to launch the Saks Beauty Recycling program, which will let shoppers send in empty beauty containers through Saks.com or drop them at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores across the U.S. to give them a second life. The waste will be sorted by composition, (e.g. The waste will be sorted by composition, (e.g.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2021

Ecommerce retailers are looking for ways to minimize the bottom line impact of returns — some even forgoing recovering the product to save on shipping costs. Meanwhile, an astonishing 78% of consumers surveyed in BOXpoll from Pitney Bowes said their most recent online returns were inconvenient. Does anyone actually like returns?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

While more than half ( 54% ) of retailers responding to the 2023 Omnichannel and Fulfillment Benchmark Report said active physical stores are the final locations for inventory prior to delivery, retailers are increasingly using third-party services to handle the actual mechanics of picking, packing and delivering items to consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

For example, most consumers today are concerned about carbon emissions, climate change and sustainability. Increasingly, consumers are choosing to do business with retailers and brands with values that align with theirs. In 2020, 62% of consumers had made that kind of switch.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Since consumers must schedule appointments for the test kits, retailers have control over the number of tests that can be picked up and dropped off each day, and the volume of testing can change over time. Thanks to HHS, the retailer can be compensated for each completed test that is distributed at their retail stores.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Consumers expect a seamless interaction with a brand when and where they want it. In its stores, only one sample of each clothing item is displayed, and consumers use QR codes in the app to request a specific size be sent to fitting rooms or to the counter for purchase. Loyalty must adjust to meet those evolving consumer expectations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2022

Ulta Beauty is partnering with Happy Returns to add Return Bar services to 1,300 brick-and-mortar locations. Through this partnership, Ulta and Happy Returns will increase the total number of Return Bar locations to more than 5,000 by the end of 2022. As a result, 78% of Americans will live within 10 miles of a Return Bar.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days. Under the Xpress Ship program, products are sent to an authentication centre, where they go through a multi-step verification process.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

With smart click-and-collect lockers, customers can simply drop by the store at their leisure and retrieve their order. According to a new consumer research study, shoppers are making buying decisions based on retailers’ return policies. The research found that 54 per cent prefer in-person drop-off at a designated retail location.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2021

This massive increase put significant strains on the supply chain as well as shipping and delivery. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, items that consumers shopped for reflected the stay-at-home sentiment, such as household essentials, electronics and entertainment and health, beauty and wellness products.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

Think about the everyday shopper: for many, the nearest returns location isn’t just around the corner. It might involve a time-consuming trip across town, navigating traffic and juggling work or family schedules. First, she has to figure out the return policy, which can be buried in fine print.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. Loyalty Shifts to Value.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

As more consumers are vaccinated and COVID restrictions begin to ease, the key questions many retailers will be asking are what will consumers want to buy, and how can they make sure they have the right product, in the right place, as consumers start to resume some of their pre-pandemic activities? Know Where Your Product is.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Located in its birthplace of Eugene, Ore. The stores would include integrated online-to-offline capabilities as part of a digitally empowered phase of Nike’s Consumer Direct strategy , the Consumer Direct Acceleration. Consumers get a high degree of flexibility to discover the best of Nike, online or in-store, at their own pace.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Nixon attributed this to consumers being online more and having more time to shop, as well as the growth of the lingerie and sleepwear industry throughout this period. From pop-ups to a permanent location. Its packaging and shipping is biodegradable, and its online orders are carbon-offset.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Forrester also notes that over the past few years, retailers focused heavily on their ecommerce business and in-store fulfillment; as a result, they found out the hard way that their legacy and outdated technology stack impacted their agility and ability to respond to changing consumer behavior. Retail is already changing.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 25, 2022

By providing a return QR code on a shipping label or box, or on a packing slip for use at a drop-off or collection, retailers can print a return label while also triggering an update to their order management system. Clearly, all returns must be quality checked before they can be re-released as saleable inventory.

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Small Biz Trends

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

This means you are not limited by your geographical location. And one of the best ways it makes these products available to small and medium online retailers like you is by offering drop shipping. If discovering products that are easy to have drop shipped has been a challenge, look no further than Alibaba.com.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

We are very focused on getting physically in front of our consumer, and i n Europe the strategy there is around very niche markets like dance, BMX, etc. There’s nothing worse than having a customer request to add something or request the cancellation of an order and we don’t get to it before it ships out,” said Flateman Posner. “It’s

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

Levi Strauss & Co’s Eureka Innovation Lab is located on a quiet, dead-end street near Coit Tower in San Francisco. But this required shipping multiple iterations back and forth, and it could take weeks before they had a prototype they were satisfied with.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 9, 2023

Combining the two in one place for a multi- or omni-channel retail strategy could create an entirely new experience for consumers – and, with rapid developments in modern technology, it opens the door to a multitude of opportunities in the future. And, a brand that is leading the pack is Gymshark. over the previous two years.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

This is also the ideal time to review the online customer journey, because consumer expectations for ecommerce convenience and personalization are higher than ever, based on the findings of ClearSale’s 2021 State of Consumer Attitudes on Ecommerce, Fraud & CX survey. Give Back-to-School Shoppers Alternative Payment Options.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 21, 2022

The business is located in Atlanta, GA with a price of $2,500,000. The business is located in Chandler, AZ with an asking price of $600,000. This business is located in Mulberry, AZ with an asking price of $8,000,000. The business is located in Roanoke, VA with an asking price of $1,200,000. Online Wakesurfing Retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing a photoshoot for a furniture collection is typically an expensive, logistics-heavy procedure that involves months spent coordinating teams of people, products and locations. The platform lets creators drag and drop the pieces throughout the space to get the exact look they want, and the creators also can switch between view modes.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 9, 2019

There are a variety of ways to deliver products to consumers who purchase online. Store location fulfillment – When your customer goes through the online check out, you’ll need to get their physical delivery address. When that happens, you can fulfill their web order from the nearest store location.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

After all, consumers need to be able to bring back certain items. Consumers, for example, have started to adopt the ‘bracketing’ strategy. This was rendered possible as retailers and brands offered low-cost shipping, unlimited holding periods and easy returns. But the drivers behind returns have evolved. But don’t stop there.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2021

While consumers have been fairly forgiving with the elongated wait times and uncertainty, given the situation we’ve all found ourselves in, that patience may be starting to wear thin. One way to do that is by having smaller warehouses that are closer to where your consumer is,” said Orenstein. The problem.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. One major aspect is the Market Fulfillment Centers , 30,000 square-foot automated fulfillment spaces that can be located inside or connected to existing stores.

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Wiser

JUNE 5, 2023

Transportation – Transportation is one of the most important parts of the supply chain since it determines how quickly goods are received by customers or other locations within your network. When demand for an item suddenly spikes or drops, it can lead to cash flow issues, inventory shortages, and increased competition.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 6, 2022

The holidays are always a stressful and busy time for retailers, especially this year with all of the supply chain delays eating away at consumer patience. When it comes to returns, consumers are looking for two things: speed and convenience,” Chan said. Provide Customers with What They Need.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

With our infrastructure, we were able to take the sourcing overseas with great partners that we’ve worked with for years and drop the cost of goods on that product by more than half. We have folks with 10-plus years of experience in 3PL shipping logistics, customer service and demand planning.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2022

For many independent retailers in the UK, 2020 hid a lot of the post-Brexit trading cracks as their domestic sales skyrocketed during periods of lockdown when consumers were forced to stay at home and took to shopping more online. There are rules in place as part of EU trade deals that allow you to recover customs costs – tariff free.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Increases in cost of shipping both for raw materials inbound to Brazil plus outbound finished goods to our markets were a big factor for some of 2021 and much of 2022, but things have mostly normalised now,” he added. As shipping rates reduce it is important for businesses to have a dynamic view on their costs,” he elaborated.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 14, 2022

More than half (52%) of global consumers said they are less likely to order an item that requires shipping from overseas than they were a year ago . Unwilling to compromise on speed and availability, consumers are now paying special attention to the purchasing journey. Changing Consumer Attitudes and Behaviours Set to Continue.

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