Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2024

” Wayfair also plans to give away a total of $250,000 to empower consumers to create a space that reflects their own personal style. The promotion will run through March 16, 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. A study from marketing research company Alter Agents revealed that 77% of surveyed millennial and Gen Z shoppers shop on social platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

In general, consumer spending on goods has proven weaker as more Americans are spending available funds on services, travel and activities that were limited during the pandemic ,” said Lisa Plonka, Partner and leader of Plante Moran ’s Consumer Goods Practice. By comparison, electronics saw a 1.4X Sporting Goods : 10% vs. 6%.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Three of the country’s biggest retailers are taking significant steps to get consumers into the holiday shopping groove — and to do so (much) sooner than later. As we approach the holiday season, guests are excited to shop early,” said Christina Hennington, EVP and Chief Growth Officer at Target in a statement. Beginning Oct.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Disney has launched a beta program for its first native streaming shoppable ad format, Gateway Shop , which will allow consumers to purchase items without disrupting their viewing experience. A number of those advertisers also are signed on to participate in the Gateway Shop beta, including Unilever.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company plans to host the Prime Big Deal Days shopping event this October to consumers across 19 countries. Amazon hosted Prime Day in the fall for the first time in 2022, unofficially marking the official (earlier) kickoff of the holiday shopping season. consumers spent a total of $12.7 In addition to the U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

Cost-of-living has gone from crunch to crisis and with this new economic reality has come new consumer behaviours. This shift in shopping behaviour is not particularly surprising for retailers but it does present a unique marketing challenge.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Window shopping is a time-honored New York tradition, especially around the holidays when retailers pull out all the stops. In partnership with FrontRunner Technologies, TalkShopLive is bringing a “live commerce window shopping experience” to NYC. Beginning Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Consumer habits changed drastically last year as people went online to shop. According to McKinsey , 75% of consumers tried a new shopping behavior due to economic pressure, store closings and changing priorities, and the data we are seeing internally shows 50% of shoppers now intend to shop both in-store and online.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 29, 2023

The store is now the channel where consumers are most likely to make impulse purchases, according to the latest research from ADvendio , the leading omnichannel advertising solution provider. The digital displays feature animated content to support in-store campaigns and new product launches and complement traditional POS promotional assets.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Personalized shopping tool Checkmate is designed to help shoppers discover brands, apply discounts and manage their orders post-purchase. The solution aims to automatically help consumers keep track of their orders and generate discounts without increasing spam emails, track all orders and manage all your gift cards in one central location.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

To top that off, differentiation approaches in retail that have been around for ages, such as unique inventory or strategic pricing and promotions, can now be easily imitated. Consumers now look for personalization throughout their interactions with a retailer at multiple touch points. Value added services have their own charm.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2021

Thirteen Lune is an ecommerce destination that curates beauty brands created by Black and Brown founders and inspire organic consumer discovery. Launching in select retail locations and on jcp.com October 2021 , JCPenney Beauty will go to market with Thirteen Lune as its flagship partner.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2022

The concept for the pop-up shop, which operated June 17-July 23, 2022, came from Lori McGhee-Curtis, VP of Specialty Leasing at The Taubman Realty Group , the Beverly Center’s parent company. We have to continue to make sure people know everyone is welcome, this is for everybody to shop. It looks like a permanent store. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Seismic shifts in consumer trends accelerated by the pandemic will have long-lasting implications for the retail industry at large. Future Commerce partnered with Method + Mode to conduct broad consumer research over a period of three months ending in January 2021. The desire for more, not less, is winning the battle for our psyches.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

The good news for retailers is that when designed and executed well, return policies can deliver benefits that include bolstering customer satisfaction, reducing waste, easing internal business demands and affording insights into consumer data. Starting holiday promotions earlier helps retailers attract these shoppers’ business.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Consumers are still feeling enormous financial pressures, and many are heading into this period with little optimism towards their finances. Such economic strain is leading to behavioural changes in the way consumers are shopping and planning their festive budgets. But this shouldn’t just be a retail race to the bottom.

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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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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

CHICAGO – The number of consumers planning to do at least some of their holiday shopping online rose to 82% this year, according to a recent holiday purchase intentions consumer survey from Circana , formerly IRI and The NPD Group. consumers are shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

“New year, new you,” is a slightly hackneyed marketing trope, but it is still true that consumers are, in fact, looking to improve their lives at the beginning of the year. Whether it’s eating better, working out more, cleaning out their makeup bags or refreshing their home décor, consumers are motivated to reset.

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Talking Retail

MAY 13, 2021

The Association of Convenience Store is encouraging local shops to promote their acceptance of cash through the ‘Cash Friendly Pledge’. The pledge, launched today (13 May) by consumer group Which?, This story continues at ACS encourages local shops to promote cash acceptance.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

In 2022, a National Retail Federation/Prosper Insights and Analytics survey indicated that 56% of consumers had started their BTS shopping by early July, with 81% planning to shop sales the week of July 11. But generally speaking, consumer sentiment is still quite positive — we need to see if that holds up over the summer.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This is not just a transient trend but a robust response to the changing consumer, who now craves the tactile satisfaction of in-store shopping along with the personalisation and convenience of online commerce. Today’s consumers might browse products online and then feel, try and buy them in physical stores.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Original research of over 1,000 UK shoppers by Intellias revealed that almost half (45%) of UK consumers already use Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGTP, in their day-to-day lives, rising to 79% of Gen Z.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As businesses recover from the disruption of the pandemic, new research shows Australians prefer the online shopping experience more than that inside bricks-and-mortar stores. The post Aussies rate online shopping experience above in-store – ACRS appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2023

Drinks and hospitality business Endeavour Group has agreed to divest the BWS Seaford bottle shop in Adelaide to appease the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission). The Beach Hotel in Seaford includes a hotel and independent bottle shop operating under the Cellarbrations brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And as on many other online platforms, where there’s livestreaming there’s live shopping. This holiday season, YouTube is promoting the commercial potential of its platform with its first-ever live shopping pop-up event. ecommerce by 2024. .

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 11, 2023

Generative AI in Search Shopping will be one of the key test cases for Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE), which uses generative AI to make more complex search tasks “simpler and smarter.” SGE is built on Google’s existing AI-powered Shopping Graph , which includes 35 billion product listings, 1.8

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 2, 2024

UK shop price inflation in March fell to the lowest level since December 2021 as retailers battled to win shoppers, the latest BRC-NielsenIQ Shop Price Index found. In non-food, prices of electricals, clothing and footwear fell as retailers increased promotions to entice consumer spending.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

by storm, rising to the top of the app charts and garnering millions of fans, until consumers began to realize the cost of those ultra-low prices — long delivery times and often poor quality products. And this is just the first of in a series of shopping events Wish has planned for 2023. When Wish debuted in 2010 it took the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2022

On July 23, Klarna Oasis hosted a sustainability-focused fireside chat with speakers discussing the importance of regenerative agriculture to promote a greener fashion industry. The recent Klarna Oasis pop-up experience featured mission-driven brands from Klarna’s roster of merchant partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Here are some of the issues facing retailers — and ways that they can harness AI-powered pricing and promotions to cope with them productively. While there has been much discussion of the shift to online shopping, in reality the figures prior to 2020 remained relatively low as a percentage of overall retail spending.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

million people plan to shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday in 2022, representing 69% of all holiday shoppers, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Analytics. Black Friday is once again the top day to shop, with 114.9 An estimated 166.3 billion , compared with $28.1 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. And just like last year, it looks like consumers will respond by turning to ecommerce.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 31, 2024

Dollar General has promoted 18 executives to new roles at the company. Leslie Allen Leslie Allen has been promoted to senior vice president, human resources. Christine Connolly Christine Connolly has been promoted to senior vice president, corporate secretary and assistant general counsel, securities and governance.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But supply chain pressures and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the pandemic means that consumers are focusing less on how immersive and entertaining in-store shopping experiences are and more on how safe and efficient they are. RTP: It seems like consumer priorities fall into two main buckets: ease/convenience and health/safety.

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