Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

Verizon Media — a division of Verizon Communications that includes AOL and Yahoo — will launch Yahoo Shops , a combination marketplace and advertising solution. The Yahoo Shops marketplace will feature a personalized digital storefront. Users go through a brief onboarding where they indicate their tastes and preferences and are then presented with their “own digital mall” featuring brands that align with their interests.

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Wiser

MARCH 23, 2021

Brick-and-mortar shoppers are more mission-oriented than ever before. They know what they want, and they’re going to get in and get out. Will they be checking out with your products in their carts? The answer to that question is centered around retail execution. What is Retail Execution? Retail execution is the sum of your in-store efforts to increase sales and present your brand in a favorable light.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

As the autonomous cashierless store concept continues to gain popularity and shopper adoption, a number of solution providers are entering the market. Much like Amazon ’s “Just Walk Out” technology that it sells to other retailers ( like airport retailer Hudson in the U.S.), other tech companies are making their AI-powered models available to brands across the globe.

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Retail Pro

MARCH 23, 2021

The anticipation of receiving that perfect order can be easily derailed by a poor product delivery experience. The “ultimate” shopping experience depends on excellence from beginning—the order—to end, the delivery. How quickly goods get from a warehouse to a customer … Continue reading → The post Why the ‘Last Mile’ should be retailers’ first thought first appeared on Retail Pro Blog.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

International fashion, beauty and homeware retailer Primark has opened a new store in downtown Chicago. This location is Primark’s first in the city (and in Illinois) and brings the brand’s U.S. store count to 12. The 36,600-square-foot store offers women’s, men’s and kidswear fashions, including footwear and accessories, as well as lingerie, homeware and beauty.

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Shopper Motion

MARCH 23, 2021

Items within a store do not exist within a vacuum. There are correlations both subtle and overt between various products within a section but also between their placement, reach, and visibility. Understanding these dynamics is essential for any section manager to make effective decisions. . But in order to capture both the subtle and overt correlation between products in each section, we must first be able to track them.

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Rangeme

MARCH 23, 2021

One year ago on March 11, life as we knew it changed. That was the date in which the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. Stay-at-home orders were enacted throughout the US, everything started shutting down, and we all hunkered down inside our homes. The adult beverage category was among those most impacted by the pandemic, and both on-premise and off-premise sellers of beer, wine, and spirits have seen drastic changes to their businesses as a result.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

Ballard Designs , a multichannel home décor and furniture design company, has opened its first Houston store, marking its 17 th retail store nationwide. The newly designed 10,000-square-foot space houses fully decorated room vignettes, furniture, fabrics, lighting, drapery, hardware and accessories, and also provides complimentary design service. In 2020, the brand’s best-selling products in the Houston area were fabrics and drapery hardware — and that was strictly online shopping, said Dominic

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Retail Next

MARCH 23, 2021

I was wrong – and here we are – navigating the first months of 2021 in a similar fashion as we did for most of 2020. And while there are signs of light at the end of the tunnel – a world of in-face meetings and in person team building activities still feels light years away. Which led us to our internal dilemmas around planning a productive and inspiring sales kick-off.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

Stitch Fix has hired Sharon Chiarella as Chief Product Officer, effective March 29. Chiarella, who is currently VP of Community Shopping at Amazon , will lead the Product & Experience organization, which includes the product, design and technical teams that drive Stitch Fix’s personalized discovery and convenience initiatives. During her 13-year tenure at Amazon, Chiarella spearheaded a number of customer experience features, including customer videos, one-tap star ratings and social s

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Retail Technology Review

MARCH 23, 2021

New apps are giving shoppers the power to buy direct from manufacturers and group together to reduce prices. C2M is a £4.33bn market that could drive the final nail into the High Street’s coffin, says ParcelHero.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

For years, brick-and-mortar (B&M) retailers have grappled with how to remain relevant in the ascendant era of ecommerce. As more consumers opted to make their final purchases online, many B&M stores suddenly found themselves in the business of “showrooming.” . . You know the drill. A customer goes into a store to check out a product. Then, after physically interacting with the product, they head home and purchase the same device online from the cheapest vendor.

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Retail Technology Review

MARCH 23, 2021

A growing number of internet retailers are struggling to fulfil orders as a result of a shortage of cardboard packaging brought about by the boom in online sales during the pandemic.

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LS Retail

MARCH 23, 2021

©iStock/BrianAJackson Actor Julia Robert's film portrayal of Erin Brockovich, the single mom's key role in winning the largest settlement ever awarded at the time for a direct-action lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), made her a household name. Three decades later, Erin now talks about her new case on "forever chemicals" in our water, and their potential wide-spread health impact.

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Understanding the intricate world of Point-of-Sale (POS) technology is a common challenge for tech buyers. When it comes to defining the functions of Point-of-Sale systems, the communications have yet to be standardized–—until now. Forrester’s new report, Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions, breaks through the noise and provides business leaders with the information and tools they need to evaluate the features of POS systems.

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Retail Technology Review

MARCH 23, 2021

In recent years, the rise of the term Industry 4.0 has brought automation into new areas of traditional production environments. However, warehousing and intralogistics has not been as upfront in its adoption of new automation technologies to enhance operations.

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