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Retail and Healthcare: A Relationship that Today’s Technology can Promote, Strengthen and Expand

Retail TouchPoints

Bespoke statement designs and calls to action also promote faster payments. This personalized approach communicates an important “meta message” to customers: “We understand you and want to make it easy to engage with us for healthcare services.” For example, some billing balances may be higher due to more complicated medical services.

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Amazon Appoints Insider as CEO of Worldwide Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Herrington joined Amazon as VP of Consumables in 2005, launched Amazon Fresh in 2007 and was promoted to SVP of Consumables in 2014. Felton has worked for nearly 18 years in Amazon’s retail and operations finance leadership. Another company veteran, John Felton, will now lead the company’s operations. Pat Bajari (Chief Economist).

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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact? Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs?

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Inventory Accuracy: The Not-so-Secret Ingredient for Holiday Sales Success

Retail TouchPoints

This created a ripple effect for retailers that were experiencing a higher volume of ecommerce orders and had to leverage stores as fulfillment centers to process and ship online orders. In fact, BOPIS became the new norm for items across all categories, from footwear and apparel to accessories, home goods, furniture and more.

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Revealed: How retailers can satisfy consumers facing cost-of-living challenges

Inside Retail

Choco Up – a company that helps e-commerce brands grow and scale their business with fast, flexible and founder-friendly revenue-based financing – decided to look into consumer intentions and behaviours to find out what else drives purchasing decisions in today’s retail environment beyond price. Free delivery was nominated by 40 per cent.

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Amazon, Target, Walmart Incentivize Early Holiday Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

Many consumers already have caught on that they don’t need to wait until Black Friday, Cyber Monday or Super Saturday for attractive promotional offers. Finance indicated that just over half ( 51% ) of consumers planned to begin their holiday shopping before Halloween, with 27% saying they would start in late September.

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Leveraging A Chief Supply Chain Officer To Enhance the Retail Experience

Retail TouchPoints

However, when it comes to retail specifically, oftentimes the customer experience is fully dependent on the supply chain experience. Today, as we did a few years ago with the rise of the Chief Experience Officer, we are seeing a growing need for a C-suite level expert in each area of the retail customer experience.