Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Global downloads of mobile shopping apps were up 16% year-over-year in the first half of 2022 while the number of sessions was up 29% , according to data from the It’s Not Luck, It’s Skill: Make Every Marketing Dollar Count This Holiday Season report by data.ai. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

While an increasing number of retailers are investing in omnichannel, not every brand has successfully implemented it. Despite being aware of these expectations, achieving true omnichannel remains a work in progress for the retail industry.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consumers shopping in physical stores are seeking a more personalised and relevant engagement with retailers today, based on their needs and desires – they want more than conversations with sales associates merely trying to sell them something. It is from people walking into stores. We all get the need to be online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St. Louis Schnucks stores this fall, with a broader rollout planned for later this year. The solution will roll out to Schnucks stores in the coming months. Instacart has been expanding its already large presence in grocery in recent months.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trans-Tasman retailer Strandbags has changed its brand name to Strand as part of a multi-year modernisation strategy to attract new customers. For 95 years, Strandbags has been a consistent and reliable presence in the lives of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Inside Retail : You joined Levi Strauss & Co earlier this year and are overseeing the company’s push into digital. That’s opportunity number one, and – probably very similar to most other retailers – you just have to be excellent every day on funnel. Can you share some of the areas that you’ve been focusing on?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2023

For as long as shrink has been an issue in retail, it’s primarily been tied to human mistakes or crime. Theft, store associates mislabeling items and products getting damaged in a warehouse or store are three human examples that unfortunately impede profits. All these technology examples play a part in reducing shrink.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Instacart has acquired Rosie , an ecommerce platform serving local and independent grocers, wholesalers and retailers, as Instacart seeks to build on its commitment to smaller businesses in addition to expanding its digital offerings. . Rosie’s tools help grocers develop a strong online presence and guide consumers to local stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

Carey will manage the vision, design and development of fresh solutions to create seamless experiences in-store, online and via mobile for Home Depot customers. Before that Carey worked for 20 years at Walmart with roles including SVP and CTO. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2020

The retailer hopes to eliminate silos and unify customer data to drive more intelligent omnichannel engagement across email, mobile, social media, SMS and its retail stores. Stateside Sports is aiming to double its customer database and retail presence within the next two years.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

Over the last two years, the retail industry evolved faster than we could’ve imagined. While we won’t be traveling in flying cars to our favorite stores anytime soon, we’re still on the fast track to a transformed shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Macy’s is upgrading its digital presence in time for a holiday season that is once again poised to be an ecommerce-focused end of the year. The retailer will engage with shoppers through weekly live shopping events, roll out a new mobile app and add new omnichannel features.

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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. He’ll share his personal reflections on how retailers can make the most of hiring this relatively untapped talent pool. 15-17, 2023 and featuring more than 950 exhibitors and 100 educational sessions.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the last several years, retailers have increased the speed with which they have built online and mobile app presence. With this evolution into digital sales and the increased use of data mining, retailers are facing unprecedented challenges in digital security. Conducting a third-party audit of cybersecurity protocols.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s not just about the quantity but also the quality of your digital shelf presence. However, the dynamic nature of eCommerce platforms presents retailers with various challenges. Why is DSOS critical for online retailers? Market trends shift rapidly, consumer behavior fluctuates, and competition intensifies.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2023

In April, the tech giant launched its first two stores, both of which achieved record-breaking sales during an off-season period when online retail dominates the market. However, this changed recently when CEO Tim Cook visited the country to inaugurate its stores amid grand fanfare. You can feel the vibrancy and dynamism.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2023

And just when we thought ecommerce was the future, brick-and-mortar stores made a comeback in the last year. The ever-shifting landscape of retail makes any type of prediction questionable, but there are a few hidden trends that are shaping the future of how we buy.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Additionally, the retailer will adjust its 125 planned closings for 2023 by closing an additional 10 stores in January 2022, but taking a second look at another 60 that were intended to go dark. The change in closure plans goes hand in hand with the retailer’s expanded digital presence. compared to 2020, and 8.7%

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GMG is a Dubai-based company with distribution rights for more than 120 global brands in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and a portfolio of multi-brand retail chains across sports, food and beauty. Since entering Southeast Asia in 2020, GMG has opened 31 stores in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

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I Vend

APRIL 20, 2023

The point of sale is the engine room of every store, where the transactional business of retail takes place. The point of sale is traditionally a fixed counter, with the onus on the shopper to make their way to where the store wants them to transact. iVend Mobile POS iVend helps retailers to reap the benefits of mobile POS.

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Wiser

MARCH 13, 2024

Understanding the structure of retail and key account teams within the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry is crucial for anyone looking to make a mark in this field. These teams are meticulously organized around geographical territories to ensure efficient coverage and management of stores within their assigned regions.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But for retailers, having an online strategy isn’t enough — especially if it’s an outdated one, and only designed for one generation. At the same time, just to complicate things further for retailers, Gen Z actually likes to shop in physical retail stores, according to the study. Your grandma shops online.

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Wiser

JANUARY 16, 2024

A well-executed retail audit can reveal important data about the shelf, staff performance, and customer experience. This is where Wiser’s Retail Intelligence can play a pivotal role. This is where Wiser’s Retail Intelligence can play a pivotal role. Flexible survey lengths, can be longer if necessary.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Both Miller and Gargan worked at Tiger Mist, another Australian fashion brand, before Miller moved on to work at Sass & Bide and Gargan went into product development at S&R Fashions, a design, development and supplier of women’s fashion garments to retailers and branded wholesalers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2022

With the potential for new COVID variants, record levels of inflation and evolving consumer preferences, 2022 retail design will change more in the next year than it has in the past decade. Retailers need to expand beyond the generic retail spaces of the past in order to maximize for shop-ability, safety and profitability.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Flexibility and timeliness are absolutely key when it comes to responding to fast-moving buying trends, as retailers must balance longer-term buying choices with customers’ shorter-term impulse decisions. There is, however, a huge opportunity for retailers that have the right offer, on the right product, at the right time.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Even as stores begin to slowly reopen, ecommerce demand remains elevated. To take its online presence to the next level and meet shoppers’ needs in the virtual world, CITY Furniture overhauled its ecommerce approach by building its own headless platform, designed to integrate with modular partner solutions as needed.

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Star Miconics

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Something I find particularly exciting about the start of each new year is getting to look through the growing retail and e-commerce trends, and 2024 did not disappoint. At a time when digital storefronts and spaces are just as crucial as physical ones, the retail landscape is undergoing yet another epic transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Last year, multiple lockdowns and store closures forced fashion retailers to go online. We have seen new shops, small shops and global fashion brands create or add a stronger online presence to adapt to the changes the pandemic created. . retailers in 2020, up 44.0% Tips to Optimize Your Online Shop’s Presence.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2021

Nowhere is that more true than the retail market, which has seen a fundamental shift among consumers in the wake of the pandemic. The question is: are retailers ready to handle it? found that nearly 70% of consumers intend to continue buying online for store pickup. They say you can never go back. trillion by 2023, up from $4.2

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 6, 2022

Global architecture, planning and design firm CallisonRTKL has released its Forecast 2022 report – looking at the accelerators, disruptors, and constants shaping the built retail environment in the year to come. In 2022, we will see physical retail environments simplify in-person transactions. Tempur-Pedic (New York City).

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2022

]Gen Z is seen to be the hardest generation for retailers to please, consistently scoring lower in satisfaction levels than other older groups on every aspect of the consumer experience. They want everything optimised and on mobile apps (66 per cent of their purchases are made on smartphones). Personalise it, for starters.

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Wiser

JANUARY 8, 2024

Retail price checks, an essential aspect of retail, involve monitoring and updating the prices of goods within a store. While essential to the retail operation, in-store price checks bring their own set of hurdles. The process is often time-consuming, requiring manual labor to ensure each item is accurately priced.

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Wiser

APRIL 9, 2024

We’re often asked to describe, step by step, how CPG customers utilize Wiser’s platform to overcome sales challenges both at the corporate level and within the store environment. Field Action Field reps are then mobilized, informed of the new initiative, and make it their top priority to visit the identified stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2021

Seeking to provide the same depth of product information that’s available online in a brick-and-mortar environment, Purina has partnered with Perch to create interactive endcaps in the pet sections of 200 Meijer stores. It includes product category information along with mobile integration into an augmented reality (AR) experience. “We

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365 Retail

MAY 1, 2024

The retail industry is undergoing a significant transformation. The digital revolution in retail is reshaping how we buy, sell, and interact with products and services. This ease has led to an increase in online sales, forcing brick-and-mortar stores to rethink their strategies.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2022

Consumer electronics is a rather crowded space with a swarm of brands trying to make their presence felt in every category — from wearables to televisions and headphones to laptops. And for a retailer, it’s bad for business. The same holds true for consumer electronics retailers.

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