Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Walmart plans to hire 20,000 seasonal associates at fulfillment centers across the country, at starting hourly rates ranging from $15.75 up to $23.75 based on location, position and schedule. The retail giant also is extending the length of its Black Friday sales and expanding its inventory in several categories to prepare for the holiday rush. These new hires will build on an earlier effort that has added 500,000 new associates to Walmart’s team since March, up from the initially announced 150,

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Intelligence Node

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The year 2020 has been a rollercoaster ride for retailers, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting global businesses and pushing economies into recession, tit-for-tat tariffs, growing counterfeit market and the accelerated adoption of e-commerce shopping. The onset of the pandemic resulted in the enforcement of home quarantines and lockdowns across countries, coaxing people to order online, […].

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Talk of Millennials is rampant throughout the retail industry. Stores, technologies, experiences and product displays are being reshaped for Millennial appeal. But retailers jumping on the Millennial bandwagon do so at their peril. . It might come as a surprise to some, but Baby Boomers account for more than half of consumer revenue across the retail industry today and will continue to do so for the next decade.

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Dezeen

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Fashion brand Off-White 's first store in Milan uses natural materials to add warmth to a paired-back store that has white walls broken by Patagonia granite cabinets. Located on Via Verri in Milan, the 400-square-metre Off-White store opened in September and will sell menswear, womenswear and homeware. According to the brand, which is led by fashion designer Virgil Abloh , the boutique "embraces earthy yet elegant minimalism".

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Zulily has consistently targeted moms as its core demographic, and the retailer is refocusing on this commitment under new CMO Kiran Akkineni. Akkineni also is returning to his roots: he is a Zulily veteran who led the analytics team during its early years, from 2010 to 2013. One of the retailer’s new initiatives is “ The Late Night Shop for Mom ,” a month-long shopping event that will offer free shipping on orders placed from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.

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Shopper Motion

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As we described in our previous post , in-store analytics can be applied in a wide variety of businesses, including shopping malls. It allows us to analyze the behavior of customers to understand their shopping trends and habits, but the analytical capacity isn’t limited to this alone. We can measure other activities that take place within malls using shopping mall traffic analysis.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Why should retailers care about data analytics? It’s really quite simple. Today’s retailers are facing a bevy of new challenges, including declining sales, fierce competition from online-only stores, and changing consumer preferences. In the digital age, there are a million things retailers have to stay on top of, and simply not enough time in the day.

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Retail Technology Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

By Ed Smith,freelance writer Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, you may have read that offline marketing channels such as billboards had seen a significant spike in demand over the last few years.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Consumers love environmentally conscious companies. Research from Accenture shows that consumers are buying 72% more environmentally friendly products than they were five years ago, while IBM and the National Retail Federation found buyers are willing to pay around 35% more money for products from eco-friendly brands. The age of waste is over; the age of responsible business has begun.

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Retail Technology Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

OnBuy’s is about to embark on a worldwide scale-up of its eCommerce platform into over 140 countries by 2023, starting with 40 initial sites by year-end 2020. The company forecasts that this move will drive 50x growth within four years.

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Customer Experience

Retail Technology Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As online grocers report a spike in orders and shoppers post pictures of newly emptied shelves, ParcelHero says we must all learn the lessons of March and avoid panic-buying ahead of a second coronavirus wave. It also warns pandemic profiteers, who buy cleaning products now to sell at a higher price during lockdown, won’t get away with it a second time.

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Retail Technology Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Covid-19 has placed global supply chains under unprecedented levels of disruption and uncertainty. From consumers’ stock-piling commodities that left supermarket shelves empty, to supply issues of healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the Supply Chain has never been under the spotlight so much as it gains new found respect.

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Retail Technology Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Naveo Commerce has launched as a new company, following the merger of operations between Digital Goodie and Maginus.

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