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2022 Predictions: Shipping Experience Will be the Key to Retail and Ecommerce Success

Retail TouchPoints

Relentless challenges including supply chain disruptions, weather disasters and a ship stuck in the Suez Canal slowed shipments and delivery of goods to consumers. Shipping and delivery will continue to play a major role in how retailers, both small and large, perform and provide effective customer experiences.

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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. As stores were closer to consumers in the “last mile,” orders shipped from stores were able to arrive much more quickly and cost effectively.

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How CarMax Digitized, and Personalized, the Car-Buying Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Now, every step of buying or selling a car at CarMax can be done online or in-person — including many processes that most other retailers never had to worry about digitizing such as buying back products and financing purchases. The second major challenge is that every consumer is a snowflake too when it comes to auto financing.

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5 ways crowdfunding can get you through the shipping crisis

Retail Bound

The global shipping industry has operated in a harmonious dance of infinite moving parts for decades, but all it took was one virus-sized domino to fall over and throw the global trade infrastructure into chaos. One of the most disastrous effects of this global shipping crisis is the staggering increase in cost to ship.

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Untuckit is Setting Sights on Expansion and Internal Visibility is Helping it Get There

Retail TouchPoints

With NetSuite, we have been able to improve productivity and create a centralized view of our finances, inventory and operations across both our ecommerce and retail channels.” For example, NetSuite Advanced Inventory helped Untuckit optimize its buy online, ship from store system.

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Serial Returners and Refund Fraudsters: How Brands are Fighting Back With Data Insight

Retail TouchPoints

Customer data analysis: This can be carried out to detect potential networks of fraudsters working together. By examining shared IP addresses, shipping addresses and payment methods, retailers can uncover hidden associations that might indicate organized fraud rings.

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Amazon, Target, Walmart Incentivize Early Holiday Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

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. Based on a recent survey of 1,000 U.S. A consumer survey conducted in August by YouGov and reported by Yahoo!

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