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Uber Debuts Package Return Service

Retail TouchPoints

Uber has introduced a package return service that provides consumers with live tracking within the Uber app. Uber will charge a flat $5 fee for returns, but only $3 for members of the Uber One loyalty program. Uber will charge a flat $5 fee for returns, but only $3 for members of the Uber One loyalty program.

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Retailers Must Adopt a Technology-First Strategy to Survive

Retail TouchPoints

The Battle to Create Retail’s Future The retail industry has surpassed the tipping point on Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns, which states that the rate of technological process and innovation tends to accelerate exponentially over time. Relentless focus on the customer. That sounds good. Many retailers are at this stage.

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Five Pandemic-Driven Trends Reshaping Retail CX Strategy

Retail TouchPoints

While simple tracking updates are common, the bar has been raised, and customers are willing to tolerate shipping delays only if brands offset the delays by offering robust order support and communications that they can plan around. Adjust to Return Reluctance. Customers also expect retailers to communicate about the return process.

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Drive-Up Grocer Addie’s Opens First Store, Plans to Expand Across U.S.

Retail TouchPoints

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., “With our seed funding, we’ve built an end-to-end experience to serve people in and around Norwood in a way that can be replicated in suburbs nationwide. fueled by $10.1 of all U.S.

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Technology, trends and key takeaways from NRF’s Big Show

Inside Retail

After so much Covid-19 disruption and damage, the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show returned to the Big Apple with an equally big bang last week. In-store innovation Retailers continue to overhaul legacy systems and integrate in-store tech at pace, with one goal – a seamless customer experience.

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Time to De-Uberize: the Hidden Power of Live Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

Even the most commoditized of traditional shopping experiences — the supermarket — always has counters for specialty items where people can interact with staff to get exactly what they want. It’s much more than that: it’s a creative performance that incorporates interaction and storytelling to increase sales and decrease returns.

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Exclusive: Woolworths’ head of delivery talks the rise of marketplaces

Inside Retail

Last year, supermarket giant Woolworths launched its Everyday Market, an online marketplace hosted within its broader website that allows customers access a variety of products in categories not traditionally held in its supermarkets, such as homewares and clothing, and includes products from Big W, PetCulture, Healthylife, Designer Bums and Joonya.