Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the course of her expansive career in marketing, Kristen D’Arcy has worked for household names like American Eagle , PacSun , Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta. But she believes that successful marketing revolves around one key thing: understanding your customer and creating the value they expect.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

Amazon is expanding the reach of its Amazon Live shopping content with the debut of a new interactive shoppable channel on the Prime Video and Freevee streaming TV services. However, Amazon’s move from a social media-style setting back into television is a sign of the preferences of U.S.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This year, over 102 million people will buy via social platforms in the US alone and by 2025, global sales via social commerce will exceed US$1.2 Among consumers – and not just Millennials – social commerce is gaining significant traction, growing three times as fast as overall e-commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

Shopping is everywhere. There are seemingly endless opportunities to shop — or be inspired to shop — in both the physical and digital worlds at any moment. Today’s consumers move across digital, physical and social platforms with ease, switching from browsing, researching and buying in seconds.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether it was inspiration from this “summer of sport” or keeping up with the ever-changing weather, the increasing unpredictability of consumers’ shopping habits was on display this summer. Having grown up as internet natives, Gen Z is said to be more desensitized to traditional advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm has launched a series of new products under the Klarna Spotlight banner, all aimed at strengthening the company’s position as “a true shopping utility for consumers and a growth partner for retailers.” This is far from Klarna’s first foray beyond the world of payments. Shoppable Video. Creator Platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

During a panel at the Retail Innovation Conference & Expo, experts across the industry came together to discuss: The latest global ecommerce trends; The challenges of expanding into new markets; and. They just manifest differently in different markets.” Tap into Distinct Behaviors Across the Globe.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1 use case for AR with both consumers and brands seeing a range of benefits in the form of accuracy, loyalty and inclusivity; and AR will play a central role in Snap’s plans to create new, more meaningful shopping experiences for consumers. Leveraging AR as a Commerce Enabler. Evolving From Fun to Function.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

In fact, 58% said school would be a bigger deal this year and 56% said they are more excited about shopping for back-to-school items this year. With this data in mind, and the large majority of kids going back to in-person learning, I don’t think [the Delta variant] will impact back-to-school shopping.” and how long will it last?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 14, 2021

Metrics including return on ad spend (ROAS) and cost per click (CPC) improved significantly across multiple platforms as retailers refined their efforts and drew in new customers. However, marketing is never stagnant, and retailers will need to refine their programs as the nature of online advertising continues to change.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Shopping is one of life’s simple pleasures. And in today’s day and age, shopping online has never been easier — with targeted ads, free shipping, free returns, stores built into Instagram or TikTok, logins saved on your browser and payment information saved on your devices.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2024

The social media juggernaut has made new updates to its ecommerce solutions to “make it even easier to drive product discovery and sales,” according to a new blog from TikTok. Regardless of the measurement methodology, we are seeing a return for retail advertisers that’s 1.6X to 2X better than other media channels.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Brands once had the challenge of getting customers to walk through their large store doors, supplying products they wanted to purchase and hoping they would return, but everything was limited to that in-store traffic. One avenue many brands have pursued — adopted more recently in the western part of the world — is livestream shopping.

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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”. This is especially true in the fast-paced e-commerce sector, where success and failure happen swiftly. Concerns are rising that Temu and its suppliers may be operating at a loss.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

“As people go back to stores, they get to flex that shopping muscle again, but most of ecommerce is just a means to an end. But some brands, like Rainbow Shops , Princess Polly and Too Faced Cosmetics are investing in technology to augment every stage of the online shopping journey.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The social-commerce app matches women with a contributor sharing a similar body type who can guide them on the best styles to suit their physical characteristics. The first stage of this active partnership is coming to life through a styling advisory service at Toombul shopping centre in Brisbane throughout October and November.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In fact, 88% of marketers say interactive content helps brands differentiate themselves, while interactive content generates 52.6% It allows brands to create a game-like experience in a real-life setting, enhancing customer engagement and the overall shopping experience. more involvement than static content. Make it fun.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Meta also will highlight businesses from its Meta Business Leaders Network in the new 2022 Smalliday Showcase gift guide, and provide small businesses with advice on advertising effectively with its SMB Holiday Marketing Guide. Additionally, eligible SMBs will be able to earn a $100 TikTok advertising credit. small business owners.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2024

Last week Google announced a sweeping slate of product updates across its search, shopping and marketing interfaces at Google Marketing Live (GML), which followed an equally expansive set of updates from the Google I/O conference for developers the previous week. as the world’s favorite information engine in the late ’90s.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Everyone in the retail industry knows January means two things: lots of holiday returns and the venerable NRF Big Show , running Jan. The industry’s ongoing search for talent — a particularly challenging problem in today’s tight labor market — will be addressed in a number of NRF sessions. 16 keynote from 3:15-3:45 p.m.

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A1 Retail

MARCH 29, 2023

As the month countdown begins until Retail Technology Show , retail’s golden ticket event, returns for 2023 on 26 & 27 April at London’s Olympia, the latest trailblazing tech and innovations being showcased during the unmissable two-day event have been announced.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2023

This shift will see shoppers engaging more with brands that have strong environmental and social credentials. While these consumer behaviours are wide and varied, we can expect marked growth in rental, re-commerce and subscription retail markets and a decrease in people buying ‘brand new’ products.

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365 Retail

MAY 23, 2024

By partnering with established resale platforms like Reflaunt and Depop , the social media giant is positioning itself at the forefront of an emerging trend – the convergence of social media, e-commerce, and sustainable fashion. Gone are the days when social sales equated to merely cheap fast fashion tat.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Pre-Covid, augmented reality, the metaverse and livestream shopping were distant concepts for many mainstream retailers. We are at the forefront of innovation with social commerce, enhanced retailing and emerging retailing. Indeed, AR and VR have the ability to potentially reduce returns by 31 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

Retailers also need to apply this mobile-first lens to everything that happens after the purchase is made, including package tracking and product returns. interactions and automated return experiences. It’s become a status symbol to thrift shop and find a highly coveted brand,” Brinich added.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In an age when consumers are becoming more and more immersed in the world of social media and video content, the humble book shouldn’t really stand a chance. So, it’s surprising to learn that the market for books, and bricks-and-mortar bookstores, is actually growing. billion in 2023 to US$21.17 billion by 2027.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2021

November might seem far away, but the fact is, brands and retailers in China have already been preparing for the world’s biggest shopping event — known interchangeably as Singles’ Day, Double 11 or 11.11 — for months. veterans, spend much of the year prepping for the world’s biggest shopping event. That growing demand for U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last year, the luxury market was forced to put digital at the top of its priority list and face head-on one of the biggest challenges in bringing luxury retail online — the shopper experience. They realized that things like returning products was actually easy. COVID Pushes Luxury to Digitize.

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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. The Physical Store and Social Commerce Can Enhance Each Other.

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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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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A rise in online shopping . With more consumers than ever before heading online to play the latest slot games, like Bonanza and Book of Dead, watching streaming media and keeping up to date with the latest social media happenings, online shopping is experiencing a rapid resurgence this year. A rise in influencer marketing .

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Rangeme

APRIL 5, 2022

The 2022 Global Market: Spring Buying Days, a four-day immersive purchasing, discovery, and educational experience facilitated by ECRM and powered by RangeMe, just took place March 28 – April 1. It is no surprise that sustainability was one of the most talked about topics at Global Market. Immersive shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As more households open their doors and host gatherings for their immediate and extended family, they are returning to some old spending behaviors. All households are adapting their holiday shopping habits due to the two “grinches” of the season: supply chain constraints and rising inflation rates. Resale Becomes a New Opportunity.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

But the luxury market sits in a unique position of growth: spending on luxury goods grew approximately 20% in 2022, according to Bain & Company , and it is likely to expand further through 2023. The luxury market has a few key advantages that will likely safeguard it from financial turmoil. Will Luxury’s Biggest Market Rebound?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In 2016, it became the first national British newspaper to move fully online , and now it is among the first publishing outlets to employ a new technology that turns its articles into commerce vehicles. Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing. IndyBest’s centralized shopping section.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“By providing warehousing, delivery and customer service returns, our mission is to help sellers improve their operational capability and efficiency, provide buyers a satisfying shopping experience and ensure fast and sustainable growth of TikTok Shop,” reads one job listing. TikTok’s Shopping Ads format.

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