Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., The pickup-only store does not allow in-store shopping; instead, the store serves as an onsite warehouse designed solely for stocking, storing and bagging groceries. fueled by $10.1 of all U.S.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. We need to be able to shop these brands 24/7, and Coles knows the only way they can do that is by investing capital.”. times more with Coles in total, than those that only shop in store”. Globally, we are undergoing great consumer transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Broadcasters then could look to get more out of their product by extending the customer experience beyond the TV show. Extending the customer experience beyond the TV show through product placement and relevant advertising is just one of the experiences we expect to see emerge in the coming months.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 15, 2023

Just a decade ago, high streets and malls were awash with mobile phone shops with a seemingly endless number of places to peruse the latest Blackberry or Samsung Galaxy. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. As telco retailers look to become more experience-led, is this the end of the phone shop as we know it?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With spur-of-the-moment “I’ll just run in to grab something” shopping trips becoming less frequent and online ordering on the rise, shoppers are making plans and orienting their schedules based on order delivery timelines to a degree that seemed unthinkable a year ago. Customers also expect retailers to communicate about the return process.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

They covered how brands can provide elevated and curated customer experiences and how clear differentiation, and even re-invention, can be critical to meeting consumer demand and providing a sustainable future for retailers. A fundamental rethink Fulfilment was challenging for many in 2022. Here are some of the highlights.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It found that 67% of consumers believe that the best shopping experiences of the future will incorporate both human and digital channels. Instead, they want the creativity and storytelling that used to come from interactions with real humans on the shopping floor. Recent research from Khoros bears this out.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

We are launching Vine & Cellar to give our customers and fellow wine enthusiasts the ability to discover and shop regional and specialty wines from smaller vineyards that are not usually available at national supermarket retailers,” said Mann in a statement.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2022

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For customers, many aspects of a shopping trip impact whether they view it as a success. Improving Customer Satisfaction and Building Loyalty Customer satisfaction and product availability go hand in hand: customers are happy if stores have what they want, when they want. If not, then the opposite becomes true.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

If retailers think online shopping in 2021 is about the simple exchange of goods for money, they’re doing it wrong. If they aren’t delivering a connected and engaging customer journey, they’re not going to keep pace with the competition and they’ll quickly fall into obscurity.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During the Covid-19 pandemic, grocers managed an unprecedented level of online orders for fulfilment via delivery and click-and-collect. The challenges during this time were related mostly to a lack of delivery slots and product and labour shortages, which impacted the ability to fulfil orders in a timely manner (or at all). .

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

There’s a lot of COVID effect in those numbers, but the trajectory is clear — consumers want to shop online, for everything. The same holds true when it comes to shopping for large plants like shrubs and trees — a lot of the initial research and discovery already is happening online, but the transactions still largely take place in-person.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2020

Now, retailers are urgently focused on making their shopping experience digital, contactless and pandemic-proof. As the pandemic rapidly emerged and tightened its grip on Asia, stores, restaurants and shopping centers closed. The T11 Supermarket in Beijing added staff for delivery and kept the shelves fully stocked.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2020

“While free Curbside Pickup is a new Plus member benefit, we recognize all of our members are looking for contact-free shopping options as part of the current environment,” said Lance de la Rosa, COO of Sam’s Club in a statement. Discount supermarket Aldi recently expanded its curbside pickup service to 600 stores.

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A1 Retail

JULY 2, 2021

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, food shoppers struggled to secure booking slots for home deliveries, and consequently, supermarkets sought to offer more ways to fulfil customers’ needs. Customers pre-order and pay for their groceries online and are sent a time slot and secure code, which they enter via the 21.5″

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Retail Focus

MAY 24, 2021

The events of the past year have sparked a permanent redrawing of the retail landscape, with online grocery sales soaring 91% year-on-year in a four-week period alone in 2020 and over 17 million Brits planning to stick to online shopping even as lockdown eases. Embrace agile models.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Beyond that, new materials have been invented to fulfil sustainable concepts. With the growing blend of shopping, hospitality, work and entertainment, sales spaces have to fulfil more than just one function. In the food business modern supermarkets emphasise freshness, local products and hospitality. Fresh and local.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2021

billion ) buoyed by the consolidation of the Sun Art supermarket business, in which Alibaba took a controlling stake in October 2020. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”. billion yuan ( $109.5

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Frank Mayer

JUNE 17, 2021

Self-service technologies like grocery kiosks and smart lockers can provide the kind of customer service that prompts shopper loyalty. Here are ways in which self-service programs can benefit supermarkets as they look to the future. Grocery lockers offer customers the ability to place orders and pick up in-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2020

The adaptations consumers have made during the pandemic to work, learn, shop and socialize from their homes are projected to last well beyond the time when the coronavirus is just an unpleasant memory. The other reason is the demographics of those now shopping online. Apparently, however, many do indeed like it.

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Rangeme

MAY 19, 2022

Leading the way in industry influence, Amazon shapes global retail standards and shopping habits. To stay competitive, more retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers are taking specific actions to emulate Amazon’s signature inventiveness and customer obsession. Walmart to build local fulfillment centers at dozens of stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2020

everyone saw its immediate impact on supermarket supply chains: shelves emptied by consumers frantically stockpiling toilet paper, cleaning products and shelf-stable staples like rice and canned beans. When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

Online grocery shopping sales grew 54% for the year and are predicted to top $100 billion in 2021. What has emerged as a genuine concern, however, are the incontrovertible shortcomings in customer experience. Many in the online grocery industry still operate fulfillment at a very rudimentary technical level.

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Rangeme

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With stores forced to close, the popularity of e-commerce accelerated and many retailers wondered if in-store shopping would ever return. In many cases, the store remodelling programmes now underway at leading retailers worldwide reflect an attempt to bring the physical shopping experience into line with the digital one.

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Indigo 9 Digital

AUGUST 2, 2022

A Hema supermarket in China. In the United States Amazon has made the most significant advances in creating tech enabled retail stores with its Just Walk Out technology that allows customers to skip the checkout. Three years earlier in 2015, eCommerce giant Alibaba opened its first Hema supermarket in China. Scan and go.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

Sessions illustrate the increasingly complex nature of the customer experience, and how the lines between commerce, marketing, service, and even supply chain and fulfillment, continue to blur. Why the Non-Purchaser Might be Your Most Important Customer. View the session on demand.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

The retail industry in Malaysia has struggled during Covid, but shopping centre Pavilion in Kuala Lumpur has continued to find a way to reach consumers. It’s encouraging to observe similar trends in countries like China, where trends such as “revenge shopping” are aiding the country’s speedy economic recovery.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2021

In the past year, my neighbourhood supermarket lost out on our family grocery purchases to e-commerce providers and specialist organic food websites because we shopped online more. In fact, over 60 per cent of global consumers have changed their shopping behaviours as they seek greater convenience and value.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Retail is already seeing successful use cases: Albertsons recently rolled out a predictive ordering platform from Afresh Technologies designed for the rapidly changing nature of fresh products to more than 2,000 of its supermarkets, providing department managers with easy-to-use ordering tools leveraging real-time insights.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The supermarket sector is a prime example. The results of rapid efforts to change have been mixed for customers, but while a sense of normality has returned to city life, the expectations of convenience and personalised assistance that come with online shopping are likely to stay.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 30, 2022

New Retail is an initiative aimed at connecting online and offline retail and digitizing stores to provide a better customer experience. While online shopping definitely accelerated in 2020, saying physical retail is more or less obsolete is not true,” said Nishtha Mehta, a China-based corporate innovation coach. Fast shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2024

The supermarket chain will now use a single points currency for its “ for U” program and give members two months to earn and redeem their points before they expire. Albertsons has joined the growing list of retailers revamping their loyalty programs.

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