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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

This accessibility has historically allowed emerging brands to scale their businesses, gain widespread distribution and seamlessly find their way into consumers’ hands. As a result, many have had to slow down their production, marketing and distribution efforts and focus instead on safeguarding their financial stability.

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Challenges Faced by Emerging Brands in the Retail Industry

Retail TouchPoints

This accessibility has historically allowed emerging brands to scale their businesses, gain widespread distribution and seamlessly find their way into consumers’ hands. As a result, many have had to slow down their production, marketing and distribution efforts and focus instead on safeguarding their financial stability.

Marketing 227
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Following Tough 2023, Allbirds Plans to Close 10-15 U.S. Stores This Year

Retail TouchPoints

“And while just an initial test with relatively minor aesthetic adjustments, the success of this product has given us clear indication of how we can differentiate from others in our category and deliver products that our consumer will come back for time and time again.”

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

In general, when you’re trying to speed up delivery and still provide a wide assortment of products, that puts the burden largely on inventory, and getting that inventory positioned close to the end consumer. Retailers have to right-size consumer expectations.

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Sustainable shopping: what options are available to retailers?

Retail Focus

If you walk up and down the aisles of supermarkets, clothes shops or even furniture stores, you will notice that more brands are shouting about their commitment to protecting the environment, be it via packaging or marketing messages. Retailers must also consider their consumers, and modern consumers are prioritising sustainability.

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Q1 Results: Walmart, Target Lean on Groceries as Discretionary Spending Declines in Early 2023

Retail TouchPoints

We’re seeing in these economic indicators that there is some strain on the consumer, but the resilience has surprised us,” said John David Rainey, CFO at Walmart in an interview with CNBC. Consumers’ saving rates are down, and while inflation rates are finally declining, so is consumer confidence.

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In the Wake of ‘Returnageddon’ Retailers Seek New Solutions to an Age-Old Problem

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers returned $428 billion in merchandise last year, nearly 11% of all U.S. rose to the challenge, instituting a broad spectrum of solutions such as instant credit for online returns, contactless return drop-off points, extended return periods and in some cases just letting consumers keep the products.

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