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The four trends defining online retail in 2024

Inside Retail

Customer retention With both consumers and retailers feeling the pinch of increasing costs, customer retention will be a key theme of 2024. The competitive landscape is overflowing, making customer acquisition more expensive. Customer retention efforts are six to seven times more cost-effective.

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Welcome to the new customer experience

Inside Retail

In today’s new normal, the shopping experience is no longer defined by the boundaries of bricks-and-mortar, but by the customer journey as a whole. Consumers now expect retailers to engage them whenever and wherever they want, with a shopping experience tailored to their individual needs.

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Retention and loyalty – how to grow when the market is down

Inside Retail

An alternative approach is to focus on delivering an overall Customer Experience (CX) specifically designed to drive consistent and co-ordinated interactions across all touchpoints along the shopper journey.

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Where Online Shopping Rises, WhatsApp Follows

Retail TouchPoints

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, paired with renewed restrictions and stay-at-home orders approaching the holidays, that steady pace of online shopping growth has gone out the window. Ecommerce has grown exponentially over the last two decades, albeit at a fairly steady pace.

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How to Evolve and Personalize in the Digital Marketplace Economy 

Retail TouchPoints

Digital marketplaces help you provide the personalization customers have come to expect, and in today’s crowded ecommerce space, the customer experience has never been more important. Beyond Window Shopping Business customers are consumers too, and they want things on demand and with the convenience of a one-stop shop.

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mPOS – bringing back the human touch to in-store shopping

I Vend

Retailers who want to set themselves apart are integrating more human and personal touchpoints into the shopping experience, increasing engagement, loyalty and sales. Yet in fact, the backlash to lockdown is that many of the consumers who were forced online are now desperate to get back to human-based and personal shopping.

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Virtual Queues: The Waiting Isn’t the Hardest Part

Retail TouchPoints

A digital queuing system enhances the customer experience — which will be invaluable in the post-COVID era — and increases customer sales. Customer waits may be inevitable sometimes, but that doesn’t mean they also can’t be profitable. Step back from the customer experience and look at queuing in purely operational terms.

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