Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2025

However, Gen Z doesn’t shop like their predecessors. They’ve grown up in a world shaped by social media, rapid technological advancement and rising social consciousness. Creator-Guided Commerce Social commerce isn’t new, but Gen Z is pushing it into its next chapter: creator-guided buying.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A survey by software broker Capterra showed 78 per cent research products on platforms like TikTok before purchasing and 54 per cent have shopped directly through social media apps; however, the Love Song survey by Live Nation found that 83 per cent prioritise real-world experiences over digital ones.

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Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2025

Born into smartphones and social feeds, the generation is rewriting the rules of fashion in the world’s most populous country. They shop with their thumbs, discover with their eyes and influence their friends. Already, they make up nearly one-third of India’s fashion shoppers online. And they’re only getting started.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Brands should use this time to create campaigns that focus on building emotional connections to better resonate with consumers and ensure they remain top-of-mind when consumers are ready to shop. Customers were invited to resell past purchases, creating a circular shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, research conducted by the financial services institution HSBC confirmed that as the average price of personal luxury goods increased by 52 per cent in Europe since 2019, with similar price hikes across the globe, the number of consumers shopping for these products decreased. billion market in 2023. per cent year-on-year.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This trend has had a ripple effect on retail, revitalising urban shopping districts and creating new opportunities for businesses to cater to a more mobile workforce. By 2025, these technologies are expected to integrate more seamlessly with in-store experiences, bridging the gap between online and offline shopping.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Single customers will continue to shape new shopping priorities through their individual lifestyle choices. Many singles have time and money to indulge in fashion, designer toys, gaming, dining, entertainment. Digital commerce is crucial in the singles economy, with 90 per cent of Singles Day sales coming through mobile devices.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It redefines how consumers shop and discover our trend-driven, premium product assortment, by forging powerful partnerships with creators who shape sneaker culture and fashion trends.” This is an immersive program bringing basketball culture to fans, sneaker enthusiasts and local communities. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Vaccarella is no stranger to retail — Bogg has wholesale partnerships with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops , among others — and she has mastered a model in which the brand develops exclusive designs tailored to each partner’s shopper base. We couldn’t meet the demand, so we didn’t take on any new retailers until we could keep up.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 22, 2025

Pre-loved goes mainstream The rising popularity of second-hand goods and renting fashion over the last couple of years is set to go mainstream this year. Fashion rental platform By Rotation announced at the start of the year that it was extending its Mayfair pop-up due to high demand.

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A1 Retail

JULY 2, 2025

Autumn Fair , the UK’s leading marketplace for home, gift, and fashion, has revealed its most ambitious and retailer-focused content programme to date. Practical, focused, and easy to consume, it’s been thoughtfully designed to fit around buyers and deliver maximum value in minimal time.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Simply put, Adaptive Retail is any commerce experience that brings consumers what they want, wherever and whenever they want it. Players can learn more and buy products from brands like A Dozen Cousins in the ‘Walmart Unlimited’ Commerce Hub. That’s just too disruptive to work.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

True Religion has rebranded and retooled its loyalty program ahead of the holiday shopping season. As a brand, True Religion is at the intersection of culture, commerce and fashion. True Rewards’ tiers have been renamed and redesigned to offer shoppers more flexibility and earlier redemption milestones.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2025

The landscape of American retail is changing, with new customer demands, new players, new competition and a growing proportion of sales taking place across new digital channels like social commerce. In the fashion and lifestyle world, Nike is another player nailing the in-store experience. retail sales growth.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But if you have never heard of social commerce, now is the time to stand up and pay attention. Statista has reported that the global value of social commerce will grow from US$1.3 In late 2023, Salesforce reported that 59 per cent of consumers had shopped on social media, a massive jump from 15 per cent in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2025

This growth is being driven by accelerated consumer adoption, with 58% of consumers saying they shopped for secondhand apparel in 2024, an all-time high for the survey. And that number is even higher among younger generations (ages 18-44), with 68% of that cohort shopping secondhand in 2024.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Retailers from fashion to outdoor adventure and sexual wellness are spicing up their Valentines Day marketing strategies with unique campaigns surrounding February 14. Sheins interactive livestream Key trends surrounding Valentines Day 2025 are shifting toward inclusive celebrations and thriftier shopping to cater to consumer preferences.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When it comes to fashion, younger Gen Zs were also the most frequent in-store shoppers, with the demographic more than twice as likely as the average UK consumer to head into apparel stores every week (28 percent vs 13 percent). Similarly, for Health & Beauty, Gen Z were also x1.7 choosing the store as their channel of choice.”

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Inside Retail

MARCH 18, 2025

1: Digital transformation and the rising complexity of the customer journey Digital transformation has reshaped many industries, including (but not limited to) fashion and apparel, multi-category retail, cosmetics and personal care items. Withindemand forecasting, AI improves inventory management by accurately predicting demand patterns.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

The app’s e-commerce feature TikTok Shop, which lets users purchase products directly from videos, has no direct competitor that advertisers can easily switch to, Atkinson said, adding that his agency was signing new contracts with clients to build TikTok Shop campaigns even as of late December.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Today, the Salomon customer includes Pilates princesses whose ‘fit checks’ on social media have contributed to the virality of the shoe styles, whilst the brand still caters to its core original consumer of adventure seekers.

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365 Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

Adam Jay, CEO of fashion resale platform Vinted, has once again been named as the top retail innovator in the 2025 Retail Disruptors & Innovators report, released today by Retail Insider in partnership with the Retail Technology Show (RTS), the flagship event that connects retails changemakers with leading tech providers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

Social commerce has quickly grown from a revolutionary idea to a mainstream concept, and the channel is expected to continue expanding to reach $1.2 The foundational lesson is that, while social commerce can be an outgrowth of a retailer’s traditional social media interactions, it’s both more time-sensitive and more time-consuming.

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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The intersection of technology and sustainability is redefining the fashion landscape in Asia, and one of the leaders of this movement is Smthgood, a marketplace with a mission. Smthgood is a social commerce platform that combines user-generated lookbooks with a fashion marketplace that is focused on conscious fashion brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2021

Social commerce is a relatively new medium, but as retailers and social media platforms alike explore possible use cases and applications, it will significantly shape how both shoppers and businesses spend their time and money. However, this doesn’t mean that the existing social media playbook needs to be completely rewritten.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Shopping has been happening organically on TikTok for a while. This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from culture and creation into commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

It has been a year since the pandemic rocked a fashion industry that was already feeling the pressure of trying to keep pace with consumer shifts toward digital, ethical sourcing and eco-friendly products. Here are some of the overarching themes of the changing consumer sentiment that will shape the fashion industry’s journey ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2021

Social commerce is poised to be the focus of the next retail revolution: two-thirds of consumers say that social media has become as important as their other sources of information when making purchase decisions, according to data from Facebook. Betabrand’s Shows Are Live — and the Retailer Wants You To Know It.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

ShopStyle launched in 2007 with an innovative idea: creating a search engine focused solely on fashion. Fifteen years and two acquisitions later, the landscape of shopping-focused search engines has gotten crowded, with a host of new start-ups and major tech players like Google and Pinterest all looking to get in on the action.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2023

Countless companies both big and small — including Meta , Pinterest and Google — are trying to tackle the challenge of making shopping online more like shopping IRL, where inspiration can strike at any moment and from any direction. One of the newest entrants in the space is Shoptrue , which launched in open beta in November 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

Pinterest has signed a definitive agreement to acquire THE YES , an AI-powered platform that allows consumers to personalize their shopping feeds based on their brand, style and size preferences. THE YES features hundreds of merchants and boasts a fashion taxonomy that relies on human input and machine learning to power its algorithm.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Fashion tech start-up Mys Tyler has secured more than $1 million in its seed funding round, with Mirvac Ventures, Antler Global and angel investor Brian Hartzer, former CEO of Westpac, backing the business. Stylists in Residence at Toombul Shopping Centre, QLD. Image: Supplied.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

As 2024 advances, the importance and reach of paid social media advertising will only continue to grow. Social commerce value will keep on growing. The value of social commerce continues to grow rapidly and is shaping the future of online retail. trillion by 2026, more than doubling its current value.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2024

To become a household name, Temple & Webster is focussing its social commerce efforts on Instagram while keeping an eye on the up-and-coming markets that TikTok could help it unlock. Currently, the brand’s main social media channel is Instagram, but it does have a TikTok account. “I’m

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2024

There’s no shortage of companies trying to crack the code of social commerce in the U.S. from the biggest social media platforms to small start-ups. Video commerce is the delivery of content. It ties together the best of affiliate, the best of influencer and the best of digital into social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

But following a series of major strategic moves, the role Pinterest hopes to play in the burgeoning realm of social commerce is crystal clear. Julie Bornstein, Founder of The YES and now Chief Shopping Officer, Pinterest. What can [the web] do that a retail store can’t do that makes shopping better?

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