Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

With new services like Supply Chain by Amazon and Amazon Shipping joining existing offerings such as FBA and Amazon Lending, Amazon is firmly positioning itself more and more as a tech-powered service company and less and less as a retailer.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2021

During the dizzying heights of peak season, retail operations of all shapes and sizes are put to the test to meet increased consumer demand. Many small to medium-sized retailers often think that in order to grow they’ll need to make large-scale investments into robust stock inventory management systems to meet demand effectively.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Retailers are enduring dynamic and challenging times as supply-chain disruption continues and consumer behaviour changes, both brought on by living in the Covid era. Consumers increasingly want a seamless and consistent shopping experience across a growing number of offline and online touchpoints. Offer gift cards.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Retailers are now investing significant resources into logistics, deploying the latest inventory management systems, automating warehouses and hiring hundreds of hardworking staff in an effort to pick, pack and ship online orders as quickly as possible. Using this stock to fulfil online orders is known as ship-from-store. .

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Nearly half of retailers think they will see the end of widespread supply chain delays and disruption this year, with movement of goods returning to levels of normality seen before COVID and Brexit. The post Supply chain confidence returning for retailers appeared first on 365 RETAIL | Retail Technology News.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

A better bottom line can be achieved by minimizing returns, leveraging user-generated content (UGC) and implementing smart forecasting solutions. In periods of soaring inflation, consumers look to buy products they truly need. As consumers decrease their spending, purchasing pre-loved items will become a more popular consumer action.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. Also, packaging can be fully customizable.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are numerous headlines about shipping delays and stock shortages, and growing concerns about getting goods to the UK in time to satisfy festive sales demand. Months and months of rising shipping costs are creating some optimism that the surge in transportation prices is nearing its peak. What is driving consumer returns?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

For most types of consumer retail stores, the pandemic scared regulars away, diminished traffic from visitors, altered consumer preferences, snapped formerly reliable supply chains and required dramatic shifts in the way stores serve their clientele. But that’s only part of the story. What about enhanced health and safety measures?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that). The return to offices and social events is inspiring consumers to level up their wardrobes and focus more on apparel and footwear.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Birthday suit vice Against this backdrop, Australian fashion brand Nakedvice is on a mission to redefine accessible luxury with timeless designs that draw inspiration from vintage pieces and ‘90s nostalgia, aligning with emerging trends and consumer sentiments. It has also enabled the brand to ship from store if an item is out of stock.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

The accessibility and convenience offered by online shopping platforms have led to significant shifts in consumer behavior, and traditional retailers must adapt to ensure they remain competitive and meet evolving customer expectations. eCommerce has revolutionized how people shop and significantly changed consumer behavior and expectations.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

The accessibility and convenience offered by online shopping platforms have led to significant shifts in consumer behavior, and traditional retailers must adapt to ensure they remain competitive and meet evolving customer expectations. eCommerce has revolutionized how people shop and significantly changed consumer behavior and expectations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2022

The surging demand for rapid antigen tests, produced locally and overseas, is also becoming an issue for consumers, businesses, and essential workers in the supply chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

If you’re a wholesale retailer or brand owner and you haven’t already launched a direct-to-consumer sales channel, you’d better be thinking about it. You will need their talents when it comes to: Design Customer experience (CX) Search engine optimization (SEO) Web maintenance Customer engagement Product returns. Digital Marketing.

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Retail Minded

JULY 29, 2023

According to McKinsey & Company , 75% of consumers are exploring new shopping behaviors, indicating a significant change in their preferences and priorities. Understanding Changing Consumer Behavior The retail industry is undoubtedly no longer what it used to be; customer shopping habits and preferences are quickly changing.

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Retail Minded

JULY 29, 2023

According to McKinsey & Company , 75% of consumers are exploring new shopping behaviors, indicating a significant change in their preferences and priorities. Understanding Changing Consumer Behavior The retail industry is undoubtedly no longer what it used to be; customer shopping habits and preferences are quickly changing.

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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 Minded

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Automate With An Inventory Management System. A manual inventory system should be enough when your online store is still in its first few months of operation. Stock management is a long and tedious process that can also be quite time-consuming. Manage Returns. Underscore The Importance Of Shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s a tricky proposition, but retailers that can maintain the inventory needed to meet this pent-up demand will set themselves up for a very successful season. For instance, if a certain item is being continuously backed up in ship and train containers, look for ways to get it shipped via air. What does the consumer want?”

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365 Retail

JANUARY 17, 2024

The investment in staff is intended to avoid bottlenecks of customer orders, with the key objective of safeguarding consumer satisfaction and brand loyalty against the negative effects of delayed and missed orders. For a fast-growing furniture business, ensuring reliable shipping is crucial.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

Many of those processes can be time-consuming or repetitive, which makes them highly suited to automation. Inventory Management. Inventory management uses many systems to keep your customers and staff informed of order updates and inventory status, such as procurement, warehouse management, order tracking, etc.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

After so much Covid-19 disruption and damage, the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show returned to the Big Apple with an equally big bang last week. As consumers return to stores post-pandemic, they are seeking out intuitive and personalised interactions that surprise and delight, with the option for frictionless self-service.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

While the latter may be true, excess inventory also has a silver lining of hidden pathways to optimizing excess inventory that lead straight to your bottom line through distribution in the off-price retail market. In the past, repurposing it required a meticulous approach that was equal parts complicated and time-consuming.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 5, 2022

These costs are now being passed on to average business lunch eaters, whose numbers have risen dramatically since we returned to work after the pandemic. Square’s researchers analyzed the sales data of popular lunchtime meals across the United States to understand how much consumers can expect to pay post-pandemic.

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365 Retail

JULY 19, 2022

Not too long ago, during the depths of lockdown, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) model was hailed as the saviour of retail and the future of the industry. Meanwhile, others are returning to a more traditional wholesale approach to increase their visibility in the eyes of consumers.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To enable real-time inventory management, brands include RFID (radio frequency identification) tags. They can easily trace their product to the store and then to consumers. And with the rise of the circular economy, the second-hand market has expanded; it has encouraged brands to repair and resell items returned to them.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s a tricky proposition, but retailers that can maintain the inventory needed to meet this pent-up demand will set themselves up for a very successful season. For instance, if a certain item is being continuously backed up in ship and train containers, look for ways to get it shipped via air. What does the consumer want?”

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are numerous headlines about shipping delays and stock shortages, and growing concerns about getting goods to the UK in time to satisfy festive sales demand. Months and months of rising shipping costs are creating some optimism that the surge in transportation prices is nearing its peak. What is driving consumer returns?

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 19, 2023

As crowds returned to in-person shopping this past year, one of the key areas of focus has been improving the storefront itself. With an omnichannel customer strategy, real-time inventory management, returns of online goods, personalized shopping, and touch-free, frictionless checkouts, a proper IT network in place is critically important.

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I Love Fashion

JANUARY 4, 2021

Enabling consumers across the globe to shop their preferred commodities by leveraging flawless online transactions. Well, as per the GP Bullhound Consumer Internet index, Amazon, with a market capitalization of 1,597.2 billion US dollars, was ranked as the largest online consumer service company across the globe.

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Independent Retailer

JUNE 24, 2021

The driving force behind this change are consumers’ shopping habits and their perception of the environment, so much so that even their purchasing decisions are becoming increasingly influenced by a retail brand’s environmental footprint. It should not come as a surprise that more consumers are shopping online.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Seasonal demand is the changes in consumer appetite that naturally occur at different times of the year, such as around Christmas or Black Friday. Another instance is back-to-school shopping when children return to the classroom after summer. Black Friday and Cyber Monday also lead to spikes in sales for discount-hungry consumers.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. With increasing popularity among consumers, BOPIS ‘success last year just accelerated what was already happening.

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Retail Bound

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Sure you may have a week or two of dealing with returns and exchanges, but overall sales, for any business, typically takes a dramatic dip during the weeks and months after the holiday. Other tactics include offering free shipping, using suggestive selling at the point of sale, and creating time-limited promotions. So, what’s next?

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Consumer expectations have evolved in the digital age, and retailers are now offering a multitude of flexible order delivery methods such as “Buy online, pick up in-store”, “curbside pickup”, “order in store, deliver home” and more. So how can retailers offer these options to consumers while lowering their costs?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Is inventory coming directly from the vendor and therefore needs to be dropshipped? Some factors affecting this decision include the proximity of the storage location to the customer, inventory availability, and the labour involved. Methods are established to transfer inventory from storage to customer. Why is this happening?

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