Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now the company has become the first toy brand to test out the hottest new arena in digital selling — TikTok Shop. Brands have been clamoring to sell on TikTok almost from the moment the platform began its meteoric rise and the #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt hashtag proved its commerce potential. in November 2022. in November 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What it didn’t have at that point was a streamlined, intuitive online checkout process — and that quickly became a major hindrance to the company’s DTC expansion plans. “We It was an involved, intense process. Once there’s a certain percentage of fraudulent orders, financial companies [can stop servicing you].”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The new offering is powered by Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere solution (originally called Tipser until it was acquired by Bolt in late 2021), which allows websites of all kinds to add transaction capabilities and sell products from participating merchants. “We’re Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

In yet another sign that the COVID-generated ecommerce surge has subsided, the Salesforce Shopping Index reported flat ecommerce sales in the U.S. And how are you giving them a value-added product or service for being loyal to you? for Q1 2023 — the first period with no online sales growth since the Index debuted in 2014.

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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. Here’s a playlist where we all can shop for that.” Evans: We’re off to the races.

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A1 Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

A new wave of digital payments is underway, with growing consumer demand for digital wallets, QR codes, and crypto. New research released today by Checkout.com is a ‘wake-up call’ for online retailers, as the majority predict the shift towards online shopping, accelerated by the pandemic, is here to stay.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It took Shopify merchants nearly 15 years to reach a cumulative GMV of $200 billion. I think a world without independent brands and independent merchants and local stores is a very boring world and a very boring landscape for commerce. At the same time, there is a deep desire among shoppers to shop locally.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

That’s why properties have focused on perfecting the tenant mix , onboarding a compelling combination of restaurants, entertainment and up-and-coming DTC darlings. But as we inch closer to the holiday season, malls and shopping center operators are seeing a greater need to refine and optimize their omnichannel experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

From research to garment creation, fitting with body shape in mind, marketing, in-store and online customer service, size-inclusive representation needs to be present at a decision-making level within the fashion industry,” Marci added. If you look at this process, there’s a lack of relatability,” Orschell noted.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From tiny boutiques to nationwide giants, retailers are using livestreaming and live shopping to reach customers in new and compelling ways. Brick-and-mortar locations are still essential parts of the shopper journey, but they need to be reconfigured to accommodate both shopper discovery and functions like flexible store-based fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. Based on research and expert interviews, six new realities are having the biggest impacts on back-to-school shopping behaviors and preferences. in search) and “boy clothing” (+12.5%

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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 TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2021

The longer a consumer has shopped on our platforms, the more they spend through more orders across more product categories,” said the company in a statement. “In Livestreamin g — The Taobao social commerce app enables merchants to engage with consumers through livestreaming, short-form videos, interactive games and microblogs.

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Retail Minded

JANUARY 21, 2022

Enhancing these fulfillment challenges includes leveraging robotics, and there was no shortage of these to explore at NRF. In other words, there is no excuse for merchants to not incorporate the savviness of communication technology to support their customer experiences. Also known as social commerce, this is a $89.4

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Shopify Unite 2021 Instagram leans into commerce Nike earnings Warby Parker IPO. Breaking News: Instacart has appointed Facebook executive Fidji Simo as its new CEO. Amazon News. Other News.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

While discussions on diversity, inclusion and social responsibility have come to the forefront in retail over the last year, the billion-dollar market for adaptive and inclusive apparel remains largely untapped — but that’s changing. “In We’re trying to bring the fun to online shopping. For us it was it was focus, focus, focus.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

We also briefly discuss e-commerce in Brazil, around Jason’s recent trip to São Paulo. So that was interesting and then the to me the most geeky coolest thing of all although controversial is during the pandemic, the Brazilian government launched a government-sponsored instant payment system so I got.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 30, 2021

How successful their their Shop app has been the mobile app and I think they disclose that. The by the shop arrazi I like to calm the Shopify zealots. The positioning it as a shop app is is in my mind pretty thin at this. Back into the company and they did my favorite topic of all like they you know they did talk about.

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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 Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

Goodwillfinds.com is an e-commerce site, which sells previously owned merchandise, which has been donated to Goodwill. We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 8, 2022

It felt pretty normal which was awesome and one of the best things about shoptalk normally is the networking and catching up with friends and I feel like that was in full effect and, extra fulfilling this year because you know I just got to see a bunch of people that I enjoy spending time with that I hadn’t gone to Sea in a couple of years.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

Amazon is building Micro Fulfillment Centers to deliver fast-moving grocery & convenience SKUs in under 45mins. Ted: will headless commerce take off in 2021? RetailRazor: Amazon has been getting hit w/an endless series of media articles about their private label development at the expense of other merchants on the platform.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Jason : NFTs, Web 3, Metaverse, and Ultrafast delivery services are all overhyped and don’t deliver meaningful commerce revenue in 2022. Shein exceeds $30B in annual sales, disrupting apparel industry Adoption of BNPL services slows down to less than 15% CAGR in 2022. 2022 Predictions.

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