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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

Retail TouchPoints

There is no standardization across the industry and inconsistent sizing leads to markdowns and returns. Eventually, these very necessary changes will affect every stage of the manufacturing, supply chain and fulfillment processes, and even the customer experience.

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

Retail Next

While the last years fueled massive improvements in researching, browsing, selecting, purchasing, returning and/or exchanging on mobile devices, tablets and desktops, the current transformation brings more intelligence and continuity to customer experiences with retailers, where the store is a fundamental part of the process. .

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KPIs In Retail: 7 Essential Metrics to Level Up Your Retail Game

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This metric can be used when planning your store layout. Improve space planning & store layout. With the customer retention rate metric, you can tell the number of your store’s returning customers. This can be an excellent way to gauge customer service, product performance, and customer loyalty.

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A Crisis Will Always Find A Supply Chain’s Weakest Link

Retail TouchPoints

Given the high demand, retailers could have moved quickly to deliver full containers of toilet paper alone directly to their larger stores that have more storage capacity, as well as increased the amount of shelf space devoted to toilet paper. Retail will not return to the “normal” that we were all used to.

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How Interior Define ‘Democratizes Customization’ with Digital Tech and Localized Sales

Retail TouchPoints

“We want all of our customers to have access to a design specialist who can walk them through the process. We find that when we do that, our conversions go up, our average order size goes up, our NPS scores go up and our return rates go down.”.

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