RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Retailers are focused on improving pickup options, payment flexibility , and streamlining the return process. As consumer expectations shift, retailers must offer an experience that is both quick and convenient. The speed of the click-to-collect cycle is a key factor in shaping future omnichannel supply chains.

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Retail Dive

JULY 25, 2025

Editors picks Leon Neal via Getty Images 8 retail trends to watch in 2025 Each year brings unique headwinds and tailwinds. Walmart is using AI and real-time monitoring to review product listings for intellectual property infringement or other policy violations. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Sign up A valid email address is required.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 30, 2025

Buzzword two: RFID and Inventory management With overall retail return rates averaging almost 15 percent, online returns reaching about 18 percent, and new Environmental Protection Agency sustainability reporting regulations for brands beginning in 2025, inventory management has been climbing up retailer radars for more and more reasons.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 25, 2025

Glossier did not immediately respond to Retail Dive about successors for these positions. Editors picks Leon Neal via Getty Images 8 retail trends to watch in 2025 Each year brings unique headwinds and tailwinds. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Sign up A valid email address is required. Please select at least one newsletter.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In-Store Returns . Between their bookstores in cities across the US and their recent announcement that shoppers can drop off their returns at certain Kohl’s stores, they’re out to prove that in-store and online can work together well, even on a massive scale. Ship from Store .

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Retail Dive

JULY 18, 2025

Editors picks Leon Neal via Getty Images 8 retail trends to watch in 2025 Each year brings unique headwinds and tailwinds. Similarly, Amazon does not offer a direct price match with competitors. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Sign up A valid email address is required. Please select at least one newsletter.

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Retail Dive

JULY 18, 2025

Editors picks Leon Neal via Getty Images 8 retail trends to watch in 2025 Each year brings unique headwinds and tailwinds. It also brought on a new chief marketing officer in Elton Graham, who previously had leadership roles with Gorjana, Glossier, Savage X Fenty and Amazon. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

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Retail Dive

JULY 18, 2025

Editors picks Leon Neal via Getty Images 8 retail trends to watch in 2025 Each year brings unique headwinds and tailwinds. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Sign up A valid email address is required. Please select at least one newsletter. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Sign up A valid email address is required.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

Earlier this year, we released a report, titled “The Best Vision is Insight,” outlining our predictions for the top retail trends of 2020. Now, the newfound immediacy of the trends has, if anything, made them more insightful. And the backlash — the desire for a return to substantive human interactions — had already begun too.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Now the store is viewed as a flexible asset, capable of fulfilling a variety of needs: Distribution center supplying inventory to other locations Ecommerce fulfillment Amazon return hub Curbside pickup Private bubble/pod shopping location Retooled for more buying, less shopping Emphasis on health and safety, contactless shopping.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Analyzing the holiday retail trends of 2023 can illuminate the path forward for brands and retailers and clarify the steps they need to take to stay competitive. With this knowledge, brands and retailers can tailor their future strategies to align with consumer behavior and preferences.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lastly, eCommerce platforms have made strides in their services, offering fast shipping, hassle-free returns, and competitive prices, further cementing online shopping as an attractive option as consumers plan their back-to-school preparations. What Back-to-School Items Are a Must for Most Students?

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For example, buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS), buy-online-pickup-at-curbside (BOPAC), and buy-online-return-in-store (BORIS) are quickly becoming standard for retailers. The post Retail Trend Watch 2023: Here’s What to Look For appeared first on 365 RETAIL | Retail Technology News.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JANUARY 23, 2023

As retailers adapt to a new normal, a seamless omnichannel experience and hybrid shopping are shaping the future of retail. Here are the top 10 retail trends impacting the industry in 2023. Retailers will need to find ways to connect the real and virtual worlds to drive return on investment. Or vice versa.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

“It is essential that retailers offer the same prices and promotions online and offline, and stock visibility online and click-and-collect are services consumers now expect.” 2 Retail formats are evolving Sun says the retail formats and where people shop have changed in the past five years.

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Small Biz Trends

DECEMBER 2, 2021

What happens when a customer returns an item they’ve purchased? Maybe the store will offer credit, or just maybe they will refuse the return entirely. If the store has a return policy, then the terms of any returns or exchanges are laid out clearly in advance, eliminating questions in the minds of customers and staff.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As such, there’s an intrinsic link between the content and licensing arms of these companies, with the development of compelling shows and films being critical to brand affinity, return on investment and merchandising opportunities.

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Indigo 9 Digital

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What often makes eCommerce difficult is returns. Then, there is the issue of sizing which is not standardized across retailers. While retailers are frustrated by the volume of returns they receive there is a genuine level of friction in the online shopping process. billion of those returns were claimed to be fraudulent.

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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? This applies not just to consumers but to workers returning to retail stores as well.

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Retail Assist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Return options. 2022 saw a rise in retailers charging for shoppers to return online purchases, with ¼ of the UK’s leading retailers charging an average cost of £3.53 for a return. But this hasn’t impacted return rates with online returns up 26.6% in November 2022. Labour shortages to continue.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Now may be the perfect time for more DTC brands to explore physical retail — in a post-COVID-19 landscape with prime real estate more affordable than ever, and shoppers seeking social interaction as they become comfortable visiting retail stores again. An Emerging Retail Trend. Boost customer touch points.

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Indigo 9 Digital

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. eCommerce returns. The volume of returns are increasing and retailers are struggling to figure out how to manage the cost of those returns. Source: eMarketer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

Do they invest in emerging business models such as buying online and picking up in-store, or doorstep delivery, or expedited return programs? Retailers will need to decide where to cut back and where to invest — and those are decisions where procurement, using current technologies, can generate real dividends.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Retailers need to make sure their in-store and online spaces can meet those demands. With more people returning to in-store shopping as the pandemic has eased, brands are leaning into the phygital trend by designing physical stores that reflect popular elements of the online experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In keeping with a global retail trend , consider starting your holiday music earlier this year. The ecommerce giant, like big box retailers, understands people will not be waiting for Black Friday sales to start their shopping. There is a reason why Amazon moved Prime Day to Oct.13-14.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2022

He said the company’s fortunes continued to improve during the first seven weeks of the new trading year, as the hotel division recovered further and retail trends “are consistent with a return to normal patterns of trade”. Compared to the same period in FY20 – prior to the advent of Covid-19 – retail sales were up 12.7

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Rangeme

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Let’s take a look at what the most recent trend analysis is showing. Though not all people are returning to offices these days, there’s still something to be said for happy hour , even if it’s at home. Are you a product supplier or manufacturer looking to get your products in front of retailers around the world?

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Retail Times

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Having spent hundreds of millions of pounds on protective measures during the height of the pandemic, it has been reported that retail chiefs are in discussions over the logistics of removing plastic screens from supermarkets.

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Retail Minded

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

After all, as a self-described retail geek, I get giddy when it comes to exploring the latest retail technology, exploring flagship stores that keep up with collective retail trends and discovering new resources that help fuel the global commerce industry at large. My favorite part, however, is always the people.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 17, 2021

Retail Focus recently caught up with Jaya Singh, TFWA President to discuss his election as president, bringing the industry together and retail trends following the Covid-19 pandemic. The TFWA World Exhibition & Conference 2021 returns as a physical event in October. Jaya Singh, TFWA President.

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I Vend

AUGUST 13, 2023

Retail is one of the most highly competitive sectors in the business world* – it’s a tough environment, with constant industry changes. Retail trends show that every year increasing numbers of retailers shut their doors for the last time**, impacting hundreds of stores and thousands of employees.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Unsurprisingly, customers facing unexpected charges upon delivery are often refusing to accept deliveries of products, and this is causing 30% of orders to be returned , according to Statista data. If there has been one retail trend that has proliferated over the past year, it has been the surge in online shopping.

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I Vend

JANUARY 9, 2022

A new year is a time to look forward and think about what will shape the future, and in this, my first article of the year, I’ll be exploring the top five trends in retail technology for 2022. iVend Retail Management Suite iVend’s retail technology is delivering innovation in retail.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 14, 2021

It is believed that 70% of British consumers have said that they will return to the high street , but many will continue shopping online. Any retailer that ignores ecommerce is letting a potentially huge sales opportunity slip by.

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Small Biz Trends

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

As a cashier, it is important to be able to do quick mental math and return the correct change to the customer. Not Conducting Refund and Return Transactions Correctly. Your cashiers should help them navigate the transactions by giving them the right to return if policies apply and refund them. Ringing in the Wrong Total.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 8, 2021

It allows companies to operate faster, more efficiently, encourages collaboration, and in return creates growth. Sponsored Post. Technology enhances business. However, human interaction is still key in creating a positive customer experience.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 23, 2021

Here, we ask Whitehead about the role of the shopping centre in the age of e-commerce and what retail trends he’s got his eye on. Inside Retail : What have been the biggest changes at Chadstone over the past 60 years? IR: In your opinion, what’s the role of a shopping centre now, given the rise of online shopping?

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