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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important. On the other hand, ultra-liberal return policies are fine for the customer experience, but they’re really expensive. To provide a 99.5%

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How Retail Tech Solutions Address Stadium Concessions Gripes

Retail TouchPoints

The retail technology revolution has brought forth many new innovations such as palm scanning and AI chatbots over the last few years, all of which have sought to meet the same goal: improving the customer experience.

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Saving Shoppers from the Sea of Sameness

Retail TouchPoints

As you walk through the mattress store, all you see is what seems like miles of white bedding and seemingly identical products. You feel your head begin to pound as you try to assimilate the barrage of messaging throughout the store. Unfortunately, similar customer experiences are everywhere.

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How Technology is Supporting the Era of ‘Value’ and ‘Values’

Retail TouchPoints

Some capabilities will be subtle, even invisible, and support unique shopping missions as they span across the physical and virtual worlds.

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Belk Adds Same-Day Delivery Option

Retail TouchPoints

Department store retailer Belk will provide same-day delivery on select merchandise for orders placed before 2 pm, with delivery the following day for orders coming in after that time. The retailer will charge $14.95 on orders under $49 and $9.95 for orders larger than that amount.

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Spend your Christmas time well with this game-changing e-commerce platform

Inside Retail

It gives small and medium businesses easy access to an all-in-one e-commerce platform that seamlessly connects their business with shoppers, providing an enjoyable customer experience that keeps them coming back. The interface for our operations team in fulfilling orders is a complete breeze. It’s come out really well,” he says.

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Getting to Grips with Gen Z

Retail TouchPoints

However, this is contradicted by the fact that Gen Z use stores for clothes more than millennials, although those physical locations may be more about a 24-hour pop-up than a four-story, stone-clad traditional department store.

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