Tue.Sep 22, 2020

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How The Consumer Spending-Sentiment Gap Will Impact Holiday Retail

Retail TouchPoints

The holiday season delivers a hefty chunk of annual retail sales. With fall around the corner, many retailers are wondering how this holiday season will be affected by the pandemic. Conventional wisdom suggests a weakened season, but this recession is far from conventional. As we’ve seen, it’s more of a series of micro-recessions and micro-recoveries.

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Every Pricing Strategy You Could Be Using Today

Wiser

There are countless pricing strategies at your disposal, but not all are created equal. Some strategies are much more effective than others at increasing margins, moving inventory, and keeping customers happy. To cut through the noise, we’ve created a glossary of some of the best pricing strategies that you need to know—complete with definitions and tips to help you flawlessly execute them.

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Lowe’s To Deploy BOPIS Pickup Lockers Chainwide By Early 2021

Retail TouchPoints

Lowe’s will install pickup lockers at all its U.S. stores by the end of March 2021. The initiative will increase the availability of buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) options available for Lowe’s shoppers by giving them an additional method of collecting same-day orders. Shoppers can access their items using a one-time barcode within an automated email notification sent after an associate fulfills their order.

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How to Turn a Rough Stone into a VVS1 Jewelry Business?

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Managing a jewelry store or a fast-growing retail operation is already a daunting task when you don’t have a smart Jewelry business software system to tame the day to day operations; let alone coping with the changing dynamics of consumer trends and markets in the disruptive times. Despite the plummeting jewelry sales during the first period of confinement between March and April of 2020, the mood is on the up-swing again.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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design:retail Publication Shifts To All-Digital Format Under Retail TouchPoints

Retail TouchPoints

design:retail , a trusted voice for retail designers in the brick-and-mortar space, will be migrating its content to an all-digital format as part of Retail TouchPoints. Both publications are owned by Emerald. “The retail design industry, the publishing world and the global economy are all going through unprecedented historic turbulence simultaneously,” said Alison Embrey Medina, VP of Content at Emerald.

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Managing disruption in intralogistics

Retail Technology Review

The rise of e-commerce has brought about significant disruption to traditional logistics activities, demanding constant adjustment to best meet changing demand. Similar adaptability is vital in intralogistics to ensure orders are processed and fulfilled effectively. In this article, Stephen Hayes, managing director of Beckhoff UK, explains how to establish scalable, adaptable intralogistics activity from the warehouse floor up.

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Guidelines for Cleaning and Disinfecting Payment Devices

Secure Retail

Payment devices are electronic devices that need to be cleaned with care, especially when using cleaning and sanitising fluids. Our suppliers have issued the guidelines below with regard to cleaning of their payment devices. Please refer to this information to ensure that they are cleaned in the most appropriate way for your device. Secure Retail cannot take responsibility for any device that has been cleaned incorrectly.

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Pottery Barn Partners With The Renewal Workshop To Market Refurbished Products

Retail TouchPoints

Pottery Barn has partnered with The Renewal Workshop to responsibly clean, repair and renew the brand’s imperfect and returned items, which will be sold under the Pottery Barn Renewed brand. Textiles offered via the program will span categories including bedding, bath, curtains, pillows, throws, table linens and robes. The products are available on The Renewal Workshop web site , along with merchandise from other brand partners such as apparel companies Osprey and Carhartt and Coyuchi , a specia

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How to Turn a Rough Stone into a VVS1 Jewelry Business?

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Managing a jewelry store or a fast-growing retail operation is already a daunting task when you don’t have a smart Jewelry business software system to tame the day to day operations; let alone coping with the changing dynamics of consumer trends and markets in the disruptive times. Despite the plummeting jewelry sales during the first period of confinement between March and April of 2020, the mood is on the up-swing again.

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QuickChek Rolls Out Tiered Loyalty Program With Emphasis On Repeat Visits

Retail TouchPoints

QuickChek , a convenience store operator with 160 locations in New Jersey and New York, has launched the QuickChek Rewards loyalty program. The system is part of the QC Mobile App, which was launched earlier this year and is powered by Paytronix Systems. At checkout, QuickChek Rewards members can scan the barcode within the app to earn perks on food and beverages.

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The Personalization Playbook: 2024 Strategies

Did you know—74% of IT leaders are looking to improve their tech stack to offer better personalization? It’s impossible to ignore the importance of personalization, but it comes with challenges. How do you do it with a tight budget? What about customer privacy and the use of data? The Personalization Playbook is packed with research and insights from Orium, Talon.One, and Bloomreach and gives IT leaders answers to these tough questions, helping them shape 2024 strategies for personalization.

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DIY fever prevents a second retail slump but it’s the High Street that really needs fixing up, says ParcelHero

Retail Technology Review

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) retail figures for August show that the retail bounce-back has stumbled, says the home delivery expert ParcelHero. The value of all retail sales grew by just 0.7% in August - not the significant recovery stores had been hoping for and a marked slowdown from July’s 4.4% jump.

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