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4 Key Point-of-Sale Trends for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

The point-of-sale (POS) system has always been the one truly indispensable technology for any merchant, large or small. But retailers’ needs can change, sometimes quite quickly, as they did during COVID-19 when many merchants began scheduling specific shopping appointments with customers, both virtually and in person.

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4 Ways Ecommerce Returns Will Change in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

Where consumers live has a lot to do with which returns process they prefer. Among millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers, the Post Office was ranked as the number one preferred drop-off location by more respondents to our BOXpoll survey than any other location (including retail stores, UPS Store, FedEx Office, parcel lockers and mall kiosks).

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5 Ways To Rein In Costly Online Returns

Retail TouchPoints

The good news is that retailers can make a number of adjustments both to reduce return rates and to make the overall process more streamlined and less costly. These locations include physical stores that take in returns for other retail brands, as well as office buildings, post offices and shipping company stores, kiosks and more.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.