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For Better Customer Experience, Make Your Website Easier to Search

Retail TouchPoints

Customer experience (CX) optimization is a necessity for ecommerce retailers and other online businesses that want to convert visitors, drive sales and cultivate customer loyalty. The costs of a poor search experience go beyond lost sales and loyalty opportunities.

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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

But their return to our shores after the pandemic has been far slower than Americans’ — flight bookings are down around 50% of pre-pandemic levels. This means that marketing spend aimed at these high-spending visitors over Christmas is likely to get less return than usual.

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Are You Being Served? The Importance of Customer Experience

Retail Assist

Much has been said about a return to the roaring 20s, and there was certainly a feeling of optimism, and happiness in the air. For more stats and insights into the return of retail, download our whitepaper 'Life After Lockdown: What's Next For Retail' here. Delivering a great customer experience in store.

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Mejuri Leverages Real-Time Profitability Data to Inform Decision-Making

Retail TouchPoints

The company decided to invest in technology that would help it harness the power of data to improve its customer insights and the shopper experience. “At The technology groups variable cost and profitability data by customer in order to track shopper-specific contribution margins to customer lifetime value (CLV).

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How Gucci and Ikea are using AR to drive sales

Inside Retail

According to an International Data Corporation (IDC) study, AR is anticipated to see compound annual growth rates of up to 135 per cent in retail market spend by 2023, and Snap is eager to get a slice of the pie. In e-commerce, a lot of item returns happen as the product looks different from the image in the e-store.

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4 Steps Retailers Can Take to Market Themselves in a Recession

Retail TouchPoints

Marketing is often first on the chopping block during a recession, and with GDP contracting two quarters in a row, retail marketers are working hard to determine how to make each dollar go further. Many organizations will cut marketing spend in a bid to preserve margins.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

Following its rebranding and major marketing push in August 2022, Wish has pulled back significantly on its marketing spend to, as Liu put it, “focus on achieving target returns on our ad spend. A focused, disciplined advertising approach.