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Wiser Insights: Navigating 2023’s Online Back-to-School Retail Trends

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Lastly, eCommerce platforms have made strides in their services, offering fast shipping, hassle-free returns, and competitive prices, further cementing online shopping as an attractive option as consumers plan their back-to-school preparations. What Back-to-School Items Are a Must for Most Students?

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The ones to watch: Retail trends that should be on your radar

Inside Retail

Twenty-twenty changed the retail industry forever. Year-long exposure to early promotions, free shipping, and contactless commerce has given customers higher expectations for personalisation, service, and omnichannel transactions. Altogether, this shift means that personalisation will take precedence in retail strategy.

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‘The Best Vision Is Insight’ — The Top Retail Trends Of 2020

Retail TouchPoints

But crucially, that’s not the exclusive role of online experiences. Almost half of the survey respondents also cited in-person customer experiences as a top focus for personalization. Retailers are already responding. Retailers should leverage technology across all channels to smooth road bumps in the customer journey.

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5 Do-or-Die Retail Trends for 2022

Independent Retailer

That means that as customers return to stores, retailers have a chance to differentiate themselves with low-cost, low-hassle return policies. Shoppers are hungry for positive, meaningful, and emotional touchpoints, so businesses should aim to go beyond mere transactions and offer comfort and care as part of their customer experiences.

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Does Procurement Play a Role in Retail Recovery?

Retail TouchPoints

In addition to difficulty in securing new merchandise for sale, broken supply chains had many retailers scrambling for alternative sources of equipment, materials, and services. They’re the essential expenses that effectively set the table for conducting any retail business.

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Retail’s Future is Phygital

Retail TouchPoints

Customers can try on and test apparel under these simulated conditions (no sales inventory is available on-site), and then purchases are shipped directly to their homes. Personalization is also a key retail trend, and phygital approaches provide opportunities for a new level of tailored experiences.

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“Work hard, take risks”: 5 minutes with Billini founder Susannah Khouzame

Inside Retail

Shoes are also very bulky so shipping costs and storage can also have challenges unlike with apparel, jewellery, eyewear, beauty, etc. IR: What are some of your favourite local and international retailers and why? IR: Billini has invested in physical retail recently, despite the rise in e-commerce.

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