Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2017, Polywood had a great product sustainability story (its outdoor furniture is made from 100% recycled plastic and comes with a 20-year guarantee) and a solid launching pad for direct-to-consumer sales (a 27 -year history of selling through big box, home improvement and specialty patio stores). It was an involved, intense process.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

As 2024 advances, the importance and reach of paid social media advertising will only continue to grow. Social commerce value will keep on growing. The value of social commerce continues to grow rapidly and is shaping the future of online retail. E-sellers will leverage social channels more than ever.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This year, over 102 million people will buy via social platforms in the US alone and by 2025, global sales via social commerce will exceed US$1.2 Among consumers – and not just Millennials – social commerce is gaining significant traction, growing three times as fast as overall e-commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

And how are you giving them a value-added product or service for being loyal to you? One big thing we’re seeing is the rise of conversational commerce, with interactions that are completely within a conversational interface. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): What can retailers do to deal with the challenge of slower online sales?

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A1 Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

A new wave of digital payments is underway, with growing consumer demand for digital wallets, QR codes, and crypto. Study based on views of 10,000 European consumers and 550 senior execs at Europe’s top eCommerce retailers. Merchants are taking action to ensure they keep pace with the changing retail landscape.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Catalogs allows merchants of all kinds to upload their active inventory directly to Pinterest and turn those ecommerce listings into dynamic Product Pins, making them more shoppable. The results of their work together speak volumes about the potential for digital commerce efforts driven by an understanding of today’s consumer.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Retailers certainly need to know what consumers want , but perhaps an even more important question is: How do I provide it to my shoppers? According to a report from Shopify, merchants see a 250% increase in conversions when using 3D product image models instead of 2D images.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Curious about how consumer attitudes and behaviors are evolving? What consumers really want from brands and retailers. EY (Ernst & Young) has been tracking changing consumer sentiments since the onset of COVID-19 and will soon launch its 8 th Future Consumer Index. 17 from 1:20 to 2:10 p.m. 17 from 12 to 12:30 p.m.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Acquiring Pinterest would allow PayPal to capture more of that e-commerce growth and diversify its income though advertising revenue. The online payments provider hopes to successfully negotiate and announce a deal by the time it reports quarterly earnings on Nov. It acquired return-service provider Happy Returns in May.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2021

products, combined with the sheer size of the Chinese market, make the potential hard to ignore : “It’s an opportunity for Western brands to find a faster-growing market than the one they’re currently operating in. Chinese Consumers are Unique, so your Strategy Should be Too. of all social commerce sales this year.

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365 Retail

JULY 19, 2022

Shopify and YouTube are today joining forces to give merchants and creators a powerful new way to connect to consumers, build their businesses, and share their stories. The creator economy is booming and the bridge from content to commerce is getting shorter all the time. billion globally. [2] billion globally. [2]

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Retail Minded

JANUARY 21, 2022

While availability of consumer goods may present some of these hiccups, how those goods are managed should not be an issue. Having solutions that increase efficiency in picking, packing and pallet operations is critical too. Also known as social commerce, this is a $89.4 Robotics and Retail Go Hand-In-Hand. .

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 6, 2022

China has the largest market for social commerce. Social commerce, which is eCommerce sales that are made on a social media platform, is a big business in China. It is estimated that social commerce sales in China reached $351.7 million in social commerce sales last year.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

We also briefly discuss e-commerce in Brazil, around Jason’s recent trip to São Paulo. So that was interesting and then the to me the most geeky coolest thing of all although controversial is during the pandemic, the Brazilian government launched a government-sponsored instant payment system so I got.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 30, 2021

It would take much longer to take effect because they’re their operating systems tend to get deployed much more slowly. You know it remains to be seen what’s really going to happen but it seems like the retailers have a lot of confidence in in this being a permanent new consumer Behavior. Scot: [4:18] Yeah.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 8, 2022

Jason: [6:17] There was some version of that there was you know Uber instacart and doordash all talking about instant delivery well a lot of the, the tenuous VC funded ones were, we’re announcing their their shutdowns and for sure they’re there was I mentioned 650 exhibitors I think about 620 of them were payment providers.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

Ted: will headless commerce take off in 2021? RetailRazor: Amazon has been getting hit w/an endless series of media articles about their private label development at the expense of other merchants on the platform. Nationwide cold chain one hour delivery services so if you need to store something cold and then deliver it.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures Yes Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers No Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC Yes Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution) No Retail Media > $20B Yes. Yeah they’re serving a bunch of consumers yeah. 2022 Predictions.

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