Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

At a time when brand interactions bridge both digital and physical shopping, it is increasingly important for retailers to leverage technology to improve customer experiences and create value. Here are a few examples of how technology enhances customer experience and strengthens brand value.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

In the realm of online shopping, retailers often perceive returns as an unavoidable inconvenience that presents them with logistical hurdles, financial burdens, and the threat of customer dissatisfaction. In today’s competitive retail sphere, customer satisfaction is paramount.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The letdown customers experience when their orders don’t arrive on time, or at all, results in uncertainty and distrust that’s difficult — if not impossible — to remedy. Retailers can expect that customers will turn to other vendors; once this happens, they’ve lost both the sale and the customer’s trust and loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Customer experience and employee experience live in two different acronyms, CX and EX. A recent Forrester survey report found that companies that provide connected experiences between CX and EX report dramatic benefits around innovation, cost reduction, revenue growth, customer experience and digital transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

The Home Depot has tapped two technology veterans for high-level positions, naming of Matt Carey as EVP of Customer Experience, a newly created role, and Fahim Siddiqui as EVP and CIO. Before that Carey worked for 20 years at Walmart with roles including SVP and CTO. “In

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2024

But beyond ads, few brands use humour across their broader customer experience. This fear of getting it wrong – or worse, being cancelled – is what’s holding back 95 per cent of brand managers and marketers. Beyond amusing campaigns, however, the overall Aldi customer experience quickly defaults to being value-driven.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

In today’s new normal, the shopping experience is no longer defined by the boundaries of bricks-and-mortar, but by the customer journey as a whole. Consumers now expect retailers to engage them whenever and wherever they want, with a shopping experience tailored to their individual needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

During a peak holiday shopping period in November 2021, bad bot traffic increased by 73%, negatively impacting customers’ online experiences in the process. For retailers, inventory hoarding by bad bots has become a critical challenge to manage during the holiday shopping season.

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I Vend

JANUARY 13, 2022

iVend Retail Management Suite iVend’s retail technology helps retailers in returns management. Learn more After the crazy busyness of the holiday shopping season comes…the crazy busyness of the returns season. That’s a quarter of all returns squeezed into around 10% of the shopping year. .

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

To support its operations and manage continued growth across its ecommerce platforms, Backcountry has partnered with software developer 3Pillar Global (3Pillar). The consumer-facing brands that have managed to thrive during this challenging year are those that were already embracing or quickly pivoted to digital customer engagement.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Shopping malls are on the rebound thanks to Gen Z’s hunger for nostalgia and community. How do we shift the way our asset managers approach these assets?” Reframing the Shopping Mall Brand Images from the main shopping mall area. But that doesn’t mean these commerce destinations don’t need a major overhaul.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

JLL Retail Property Management has introduced a new virtual shopper agent named Cindy , designed to make the online experience more relevant and engaging at 13 of its shopping centers across the U.S. She also was built using multi-ethnic characteristics to resonate with a geographically and demographically diverse user base.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Coles Group , which operates a chain of more than 800 supermarkets across Australia, will deploy the Bringg delivery management platform in a bid to make its home delivery operations more efficient. The solution will make it easier for Coles to allocate deliveries to its network of carriers and track deliveries in real time. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. For our customers it’s all about breadth.” Hot Topic has found that predictability — not necessarily speed — is among the most important aspects of the customer experience.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 24, 2023

The 11 th year of the CX Retail Exchange , 11-12 July 2023, will invite senior customer experience leaders in retail to the Hilton, Syon Park, to explore the biggest challenges and solutions in the industry. 5 stars!” Our sessions and presentations are topical and current, delivered by big-name experts.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Great product diversity, changing consumer demands, and the expansion of e-commerce have turned inventory management into a major pain point for retailers. Poor inventory management results in overstocking and under-stocking, impaired cash flow, and losses from theft and spoilage. Here are some reasons why: 1.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Having found out that “traditional” management tools have become less relevant, brands were forced to rethink their processes to survive, stay relevant and true to their audiences. . On the one hand, operational changes and on the other hand, changes linked to the user experience.

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Hyken

AUGUST 13, 2021

He writes about how successful, global brands use social media to deliver outstanding customer service experiences. Social media is a powerful tool that can encourage customers to acknowledge a job well done. The post Guest Post: How Can PR Crisis Management Shape Customer Experiences?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 14, 2023

But in a race to the bottom are we creating a battlefield that will only encourage consumers to shop around and switch? And the way to do this is by creating experiences for customers over and above discounts and sales. Existing customers tend to spend nearly a third more too. And it starts with your people.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2024

The customer experience is paramount to the success of today’s retailers. This includes enhancing in-store inventory, delivery services and even the personalization of customer service. However, when it’s time to check out, how do payment options factor into that customer experience?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

Traditional shopping malls are poised for a dynamic transformation, presenting attractive real estate opportunities as more spaces become vacant and accessible. In any effort to adaptively reuse or reposition a shopping mall, a significant challenge lies in dispelling the perception of a suburban mall atmosphere.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2023

As a result, customer flow management is more important than ever as leaders seek to empower the customer, improve the employee experience and collect actionable data to potentially scale their business. Three years later, customers would rather not spend time in such close proximity to others if they can help it.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Intriguingly, 38% of these shoppers say their loyalty to larger retailers stems from limited access to smaller shops in their local area. A striking 68% of respondents admit to facing challenges when seeking assistance in larger stores, highlighting a customer service gap.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

The upgrades are aimed at benefiting retailers as well as customers. Some of the planned improvements include barcode scanning, more efficient inventory management, easier options for adding product images and real-time support to fix any issues that come up.

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365 Retail

MAY 8, 2024

The advanced platform will streamline operations such as inventory allocation, stock management, and product tracking. Enhancements to the customer digital experience are central to this investment. These collaborations are set to create a state-of-the-art digital platform utilising MACH architecture.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

As Australians adopt the latest digital payment methods, the future of frictionless, automated transactions will offer a completely new customer experience. Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online. Yet cash payments are expensive for businesses to manage.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

The VIP Suite, which is expected to open later in 2024 in the center’s luxury wing, The Adirondacks District, also will host private events and offer personalized service and curated customer experiences. Additionally, Simon’s online marketplace, Shop Premium Outlets , launched a retail media network in March 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The retail industry had to reimagine ways to reach customers that sparked a digital transformation. The industry experimented with new approaches to how we do business in order to streamline the customer experience. One of the most common complaints customers have is waiting too long in checkout lines.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 24, 2022

Following the oppression of isolation brought on by the pandemic, shopping-for-leisure in physical stores begins to replenish our essential need for real-time experiences and face-to-face interaction. female buyer pays with bank card in tea shop. female buyer pays with bank card in tea shop.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

For brands that have already been focused on enhancing the customer journey, the last year has accelerated the path to digital transformation. Powering customer engagement on the day of service has required many virtual meetings to help strategise workflows that make sense for each client. . Click and Collect no longer nice to have.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Delivery management platform, Scurri , today reported an increase in the total gross merchandising value (GMV) of goods processed through its platform, which totalled over €12 billion in 2023.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Publix vice president of customer experience Bob Bechtel is retiring from the supermarket retailer after 45 years of service, the company said on Wednesday. Bob has spent his career focusing on customer service,” Publix CEO Kevin Murphy said in a statement. LAKELAND, Fla. His retirement takes effect on March 31.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2022

H&M Angel Central “ will create a welcoming, modern and meaningful shopping experience where style, creativity and culture are celebrated,” says H&M UK & IE Expansion Manager, Christopher Clare. Christopher Clare, Expansion Manager for H&M U.K. & store in 1976.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, while the holiday shopping rush comes with significant opportunity — Cyber Monday 2023 alone is estimated to generate $13.7 This enables ITOps and engineering teams at retail brands to find and address issues faster and with more precision, so those issues never impact the consumer and their shopping journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Malls were once the nucleus of “shopping culture.” But many shopping malls have endured an identity crisis. The key is to think beyond direct brand alignment within a shopping mall or center. Librarians were the age-old, quite static and inflexible owners that collected rent, rented shops and cleaned spaces,” Ibrahim explained.

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I Vend

MARCH 17, 2023

Ask any retailer and they’ll tell you that an enhanced customer experience is at the top of their ‘must do’ list. Improving customer experience is the key to winning new customers, keeping existing ones happy and bumping up revenue and profit. iVend helps retailers analyse data for an enhanced customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“The level of optimization Fast Simon provides helps our brands provide better online shopping experiences to consumers,” said Alex Baillargeon, SVP of Digital at Authentic in a statement. We’re excited to work together with Fast Simon to boost customer engagement and sales across our brands.”

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