Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2022

announced in October 2021 that it planned to change its name to Meta, searches for the term “metaverse” skyrocketed. And just as the metaverse will change the way that we shop, communicate and socialize, it will also change how customer service is delivered. Customer Service Opportunities for Retailers in the Metaverse.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

We speak with Yoox Net-a-Porter’s APAC general manager Natalie Lee about the resilience of luxury spending amidst an economic downturn, the importance of localisation, personalisation and incredible customer service, and how the company is using technology to improve the way it operates.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

If you have ever planned a family budget, you will easily understand Open to Buy (OTB). There are two types of families in household budget planning: those who operate on a tight budget, where planning is essential, and those for whom purchasing what they like at the moment is a priority, with budgeting taking a back seat.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Retailers worldwide have battled slowing conditions, with Australian footwear giant Accent Group and American fashion brand Guess recently highlighting the impact lower consumer confidence is having on the wider market. Still, many shoppers have indicated that they are planning to wait for ‘better deals’ closer to the end of the year.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2022

per cent) are now aware of BNPL services, overtaking traditional online payment platforms like Paypal, Visa and Western Union, according to Roy Morgan’s Digital Payments Report last year. Not only has awareness of BNPL services grown quickly but already over 3.3 million Australians (15.7 Laybys are a thing of the past.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. But these legacy processes don’t work as well as they once did, and COVID made that fact hard to ignore. “A

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Customer who sell their luxury products to Fashionphile have the option of receiving payment in the form of a Neiman Marcus gift card and receive a 10% discount on the gift card value. Now, NMG has acquired a minority stake in Fashionphile and plans to open Fashionphile Selling Studios in an additional nine stores over the next nine months.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 8, 2022

NEW YORK — As consumers progressively purchase a wider spectrum of goods and services via digital currencies, U.S. merchants are reflecting a greater optimism, prioritization and implementation of alternate payments to meet this demand. Banking and Capital Markets Payments Leader.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Mastercard Spending Data Reveals 4 Key Takeaways for Holiday 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What do they need to feel confident that they’re not just getting the product they ordered, but also content and services that will support their purchase? How can you communicate how you plan to meet, even exceed, these expectations every step of the way?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Pinterest is the place to go if you need inspiration for décor, cooking, home improvement projects, summer fashion…the list goes on. In general, Pinners spend 2X more than people on other platforms, so whether they are coming to look for new furniture or fashion or dinnerware, we see a lot of purchase intent.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

More and more, that means rethinking product development and expanding their sizing and assortment planning to represent a wider range of sizes and body shapes. But it’s still true that only a small fraction of the fashion retail market has put tactical plans into place to support this significant consumer base.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Consumers demand grocers and mass merchants in particular provide these last-mile services, and it’s not without challenges, as over 40% of grocery consumers cite delivery and fulfillment services as key attributes while deciding where to shop in the past year. Embracing sustainable products and practices.

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 11, 2022

Each step of the ecommerce process, from searching for products to checkout, carries a risk of retailers losing a sale. Mobile customers want a convenient and streamlined shopping experience, and each step of the ecommerce process, from searching for products to checkout, carries a risk of retailers losing a sale.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Wish was once the big new disruptor on the retail scene, offering pretty much everything, from the latest fashion trends and pet accessories to household gadgets you weren’t aware existed but you now can’t live without. Where does that leave Wish? Wish chief product officer Mauricio Monico. Meanwhile, Wish fell behind ever further.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Steve Dennis, president and founder of SageBerry Consulting, a firm that provides strategic advisory services to the retail, fashion, and luxury industries, believes that the current acquisition proposal would be a poor route to go down. But it’s notably less than the estimated $9.1 billion value of its real-estate portfolio alone.

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Retail Minded

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Some retail brands are born in boardrooms, others are created in more unconventional circumstances – and J Brooks Boutique , an Atlanta-based online fashion business, is one of those brands. They were all made to measure and I shared the whole process on Instagram. By the following year, I’d launched my first collection of skirts.

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365 Retail

JANUARY 11, 2024

To support its growth plans, Skroutz recognised the need to optimise its customer engagement, improving both the effectiveness of its campaigns as well as helping the CRM team operate more efficiently. From onboarding to retention, customer journey marketing depended heavily on design, Business Intelligence (BI) and engineering teams.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

was to enhance certainty for our merchants’ operations,” said Chui Xue, President of Industry Development and Operation Center of Taobao and Tmall at Alibaba Group in a statement. “We Alibaba has partnered with international retailers to bring them onboard, and these types of strong partnerships are key to success in China.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2021

To relaunch the brand, the fifth-floor, 54,000-square-foot Barneys at Saks department is designed for discovery, featuring curated, fashion-forward collections from a roster of emerging and established designers as well as rotating pop-up shopping experiences. The In-Store Department Designed for Discovery.

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A1 Retail

MAY 24, 2022

The announcement comes as Klarna celebrates 150 million consumers and 400 thousand merchants. The Dream Deal Days event will take place globally from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th May 2022 with select Klarna merchants including Crocs, Farfetch & Pandora. The competition entry form will be discoverable on Klarna.com from 20 -29 May.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Melbourne-based e-commerce platform Airrobe launched three years ago with the mission to bring the circular economy into mainstream fashion. We power that marketplace and we unlock supply by bringing the merchant and the consumer together in this primary retail space. They’re ultimately adding to this glut of fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

The designer fashion brand launched its own ecommerce operation in 2008, at a time when many other high-end specialty labels were still turning up their noses at digital. But Ken Natori wasn’t a fashion executive, and that made him the perfect fit to lead the transformation of this designer label into an omnichannel brand. “My

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We are a place for a user to plan for their future, to get inspired, so I think ‘visual search engine’ or ‘visual discovery engine’ is a better way to capture what we are. ”. We’ve used different terms over time — at one point we talked about being personal media, not social media. RTP: So where and how does shopping come in?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But our thesis now is that digital’s role in transacting will continue to be vitally important, so consumer behavior is looking for more of those discovery processes.”. Katie Osberg, Global Retail Partnerships Lead, Business Communications, Google “Did you know that 89% of consumers begin their buying process with a search engine?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That awareness has prompted a shift toward more mindful buying, with 68% of consumers saying they plan to increase their efforts to identify brands that reduce environmental impact and 74% of Millennials reporting they’re more conscious of spending their money to support more Black-owned businesses and creators.

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I Love Fashion

MAY 13, 2021

Fashion Digital Marketing Agency. Optimize your Fashion Shopify site structure. Upon registering your site with these services, you let the major search engines know that your website exists, and should be crawled. . Fortunately, Shopify provides FREE SSL certificates as part of its subscription plan. So let’s dive in!

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I Love Fashion

MAY 13, 2021

Fashion Digital Marketing Agency. Optimize your Fashion Shopify site structure. Upon registering your site with these services, you let the major search engines know that your website exists, and should be crawled. . Fortunately, Shopify provides FREE SSL certificates as part of its subscription plan. So let’s dive in!

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

The company clearly plans to exploit these advantages as it pushes full steam ahead with a slate of new shopping features and new leadership at the helm. I absolutely loved it, but I also recognized that we were bandwidth constrained by the process of fundraising — we could only build so fast.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. After Forever 21 opened its first store in 1984 in the United States fast fashion started to gain in popularity. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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Merchant Marverk

MARCH 25, 2020

Many nonessential retail goods, such as clothing and fashion, are expected to be harder hit. The second way is to use a third-party delivery service, such as Shipt or Instacart. Note that third-party delivery services may charge a fee and only deliver for certain industries. Social Distancing. Further Reading. Further Reading.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 28, 2022

With [Amazon Web Services] growing 34% annually over the last two years, and 37% year-over-year in the first quarter, AWS has been integral in helping companies weather the pandemic and move more of their workloads into the cloud. Amazon has plans to expand this format to the Los Angeles area in the coming months. That was due to a $7.6

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Retail businesses collect more data than ever before, and from every aspect of the supply chain, including: Logistics data (vendor compliance, lead times, etc.). Unifying Big Data across Forecasting, Planning, and Operations. Merchants and inventory managers attended more co-planning meetings. The result?

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What can be done to optimize shelf conditions such as availability, planogram compliance, display compliance, and more? Casey Berns, as I said, is the associate director of shopper insights and category advisory services at the Clorox company. 2: Planogram Compliance. Tom (continued): The next one is planogram compliance.

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I Love Fashion

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fashion Digital Marketing Agency Planning to start clothing dropshipping online? Considering fashion, necessity, and demand, the clothing business is a timely decision. Considering the process of wholesale clothing can be divided into 3 categories. For that reason, brokers are also called commission merchants.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 21, 2023

The seven executives — Rick Brindle, Elizabeth Chace-Marino, Ron Edenfield, Bob Obray, Art Potash, Gordon Reid, and Joe Sheridan — have exemplified food industry excellence through first-rate company leadership, community impact and customer service, according to FMI.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Jason: [7:01] Yeah so in general the macroeconomics are kind of a Debbie Downer and you know I am spending an awful lot of time talking with retailers and brands that are kind of planning for. Wean sort of next 9 months as a result of that but kind of frame this up. 4% which is a 40-year high so inflation is very high.

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