Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

American Eagle (AE) kicked off its spring 2021 Jeans Are Forever campaign with the debut of its AE x Snapchat AR Jeans Guide, featuring a range of fashion denim for men and women. As social commerce adoption continues to pick up its pace, more retailers are offering shoppable content on platforms like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Driven by these developing technologies, signs point to more digitally immersive shopping and social commerce experiences that will be easier for people with different abilities to navigate. So what’s at play here and where might we go next?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping, Pinterest. Pinterest is a social media platform and yet…it isn’t. At the very least, the form it takes is very different from its counterparts: “Pinterest is not social media, although we are grouped in that category,” said Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping at Pinterest. “We’ve

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

4, 2024, the shop features an immersive experience that also incorporates décor and lifestyle products from fellow URBN brands AnthroLiving and Terrain. “As Customers will be able to consult with Anthropologie stylists on site to receive personalized advice on all aspects of their wedding from fashion to florals and décor.

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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. People come to Pinterest with a shopping mindset,” said Kim Blommer, Automotive Industry Lead at Pinterest in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “In The Convergence of Car Sales and Social Commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The Flipkart Group — India’s homegrown digital commerce conglomerate that is majority-owned by Walmart — has raised U.S. The Flipkart Group includes ecommerce marketplace Flipkart , digital fashion destination Myantra , Flipkart Wholesale , online travel company Cleartrip and a majority stake in the payments app PhonePe.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Last year, multiple lockdowns and store closures forced fashion retailers to go online. We have seen new shops, small shops and global fashion brands create or add a stronger online presence to adapt to the changes the pandemic created. . According to Digital Commerce 360 , “consumers spent $861.12

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2023

(Source: Pinterest) Launched on May 17, 2023, the five-day campaign kicked off with a livestream shopping event from the Banana Republic store on Folsom Street in San Francisco, where creators Lauren Chan , Charlotte Bridgeman and Igee Okafor highlighted Banana Republic’s top picks for wedding guest apparel this season.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

As social media platforms slowly nix their live shopping efforts, fashion resale marketplace Poshmark is adding the feature with the official debut of Posh Shows following several months of testing. “We saw a huge gap in live commerce in the U.S. — Available in the U.S. ” . —

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Live shopping is one of the hottest spaces in retail, and with good reason: it provides a fun and convenient way for retailers to connect with shoppers from the convenience of their homes. Our goal is to be a leader in innovating and driving the use of social commerce in our category and in the U.S.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2021

Cutting-edge brands and retailers are embracing the authentic, real-time nature of livestreaming to: Amplify and capitalize on influencer partnerships; Position business leaders and associates as trusted experts; and Replicate the magic of in-person fashion shows and product drops.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Appointments for high-end fashion brand shopping have been a long-time standard, but they’ve begun to trickle down to fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara too. Customers book an appointment online and then shop in-store, creating a more curated feel while making life easier for associates to manage. App Utilization.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To celebrate the platform’s anniversary and solidify its dominance in online luxury, the Luxury Pavilion will host an augmented reality fashion show on Sept. Today 96% of Chinese consumers shop online-offline, or cross-channel. 22 in collaboration with Vogue China. We do believe the metaverse is going to be a game-changer.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you spend much time online you’ve probably seen one of Temu’s colourful ads – punctuated by its catchy tagline: “shopping like a billionaire”. It overlays the shopping experience with the idea of “shopping like a billionaire” – which also aligns with its value-based strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

Launched in June 2022, the campaign integrates commerce-driven content into TikTok’s Collection Ads format, which allows users to view and shop products directly on the social platform. The most engaging content categories were style and fashion , food and beverage , and home and garden.

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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. When Facebook, Inc., Here’s how….

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

Product categories include food and beverage, fashion, health and beauty, home and pets, office supplies, and cleaning and baby care. Nearly one in four ( 24% ) expressed interest in shopping in the metaverse, and that figure is likely to rise as more retailers add it as a touch point. Taking place January 15-16 from 10 a.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among its multiple impacts, COVID-19 accelerated an elongation of the holiday shopping season that was already underway. Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that).

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

Together, these methods allow Anthropologie to respond to new competition from SHEIN and other fast-fashion players without sacrificing its brand intention to provide an aspirational curated assortment. “A The influence of generative AI has even inspired Anthropologie to partner with Google on its new AI shopping feature.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

Whether customers are shopping for formalwear, athleticwear or home décor, they know they’re going to get high-quality goods designed with longevity in mind. For more than 50 years , Ralph Lauren has successfully established and maintained its position as a classic brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This includes highlighting deals on airfare and providing tips to plan key destinations during popular breaks from school. For example, a micro-influencer in the apparel space may design their clothing or attend fashion school. Pierre of MyDealAddiction, curate savings across multiple verticals that are of interest to their audiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The power of this new social experience design process is that it extends beyond the design and planning stage. It becomes a cross-category and cross-department resource after the store’s public unveiling, as the new social visual teams convert to marketing and promotion teams to support the retailer and brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2020

In a best-case scenario, where a vaccine becomes available or the economic ramifications of the pandemic are not too severe, people will resume shopping and traveling and give a boost to luxury goods sales,” said Willersdorf in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Spring Fair, the UK’s largest and most inspirational retail marketplace for Home, Gift and Fashion, closed on a high after four days of intensive buying, creativity and fun, and now looks ahead to its 75 th anniversary in 2025. Communication and planning with the event organisers, Hyve has been seamless.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Traditionally, the physical store has been where people have gone through that shopping experience — finding what works best for them with time on their hands, walking through their favorite store, using their senses of sight and touch to figure out what’s going to work best. You should 100% be doing that right now.”.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

Today, retailers and brands need to support their customers how, when and where they want to shop. Retailers and brands need to support, allow and empower their customers to engage with – and shop – them as the customer wants. Virtual shopping. Again, Nordstrom with their new Nordstrom Live virtual shopping experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“People on Pinterest aren’t here to passively scroll, they’re here to plan,” said Sydney Stanback, Global Trends and Insights Lead at Pinterest in a recent briefing on the 2024 trends. It’s this planning mindset that gives us such a unique window into the future at Pinterest.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

This includes its e-commerce infrastructure, such as warehousing facilities, last-mile delivery fleets, and network of third-party logistics providers that ensure a smooth delivery experience for consumers across all markets, including hard-to-reach areas. Waste and packaging are key focus areas for us. “For

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). Episode 297 is a recap of the GroceryShop trade show in Las Vegas, and the Consumer Brands Executive Summit in Colorado Springs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid the mayhem of the current holiday shopping season, online sellers are frantically working to move products. Further, excess inventory can lead to lost revenue because products that are not sold quickly can become obsolete or go out of fashion. The past year presented a plethora of challenges for retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Kohl’s and Nine West launched an adaptive apparel line, and QVC leveraged some star power by launching an accessible fashion line in partnership with Selma Blair and Isaac Mizrahi. Among the biggest challengers were Chinese-based discount shopping apps Shein and Temu. In 2023, that’s exactly what they did.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. For 2023, live streaming commerce, still not meaningful in the US. So, you know, we have TikTok shops.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

With retailers continuing to reopen their doors to the public, the question remains — what COVID-19-necessitated retailing strategies will make their way into go-forward plans, and which of those will be forgotten? As a result, retailers are focused on removing unnecessary contact from the shopping journey. A Catalyst for Change.

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Retail Minded

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Experts predict Gen Z will fuel a massive shift in how people shop – and currently, retailers are woefully unprepared. New digital channels help Gen Zers to shape and build their own unique identity and create their own story (with social and livestream video playing a key role as discovery, community and purchase mechanisms). .

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

You know at least three and maybe four of them are all like cumulatively what I would call Commerce right like you taught you know. [25:10] 25:10] What big trends am I talking a lot with with clients about it since its creators as micro influencers its video driven Commerce its. Social commerce and the the sleeper is.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

With it will come the meta-economy, which will power new opportunities for work, wealth, status and identity, and will impact how consumers communicate, play, shop and learn.”. Brands must begin to wrap their heads around these immersive virtual spaces and plan their corporate metaverse strategy or run the risk of falling behind.”.

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