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DoorDash Debuts Package Pickup Service to Streamline Returns

Retail TouchPoints

DoorDash has introduced Package Pickup, allowing consumers across the country to have the service deliver up to five return items per trip to UPS, FedEx or the USPS. Consumers can attach prepaid shipping labels to their returns or send a shipping QR code directly to their “Dasher” via the DoorDash app. “We trillion sold by U.S.

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A Pea in the Pod Returns to Physical Retail With Locations in NYC and Chicago

Retail TouchPoints

Maternity retailer A Pea in the Pod has returned to brick-and-mortar with stores in Chicago and New York City. The retailer was acquired by Marquee Brands for approximately $50 million in December 2019 with plans to emphasize “ecommerce, select wholesale partnerships and strategic marketing relationships.”.

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The Transformative Impact of Smart Carts

Retail TouchPoints

Smart Carts Encourage Customers to Return Them Smart carts also improve the customer experience by connecting to a retailer’s existing app that consumers download onto their smartphones, to reward them for returning the cart to a corral when they are done shopping. But that’s only the beginning when it comes to smart carts’ benefits.

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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

A network outage can mean lost sales in the short term, as shoppers simply move to another brand for that purchase, or losses in the long term if that customer does not return. The Evolving Threat Landscape Retailers increasingly rely on digital platforms for sales, inventory management and customer engagement.

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Sunnier Economic Outlooks Drive Peak Season

Retail TouchPoints

Meanwhile, consumers return to brick-and-mortar stores and seek omnichannel experiences. Retailers increasingly strike balances between direct-to-consumer ecommerce and omnichannel strategies to keep products in stores and in front of consumers. They invest in new storefronts and build strong wholesale relationships.

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Sustainable shopping: what options are available to retailers?

Retail Focus

One example that leaps out is Lidl, which in February this year became the first supermarket to roll out its own bottle return scheme trial. Launching in 21 stores across Glasgow, the scheme offers customers unlimited cash rewards in return for empty PET plastic and aluminium drinks containers via in-store reverse vending machines.

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Now it ‘controls its own destiny’, where is Co-op looking for growth?

Retail Gazette

As well as returning to growth over the past year, it has also grown the top line, with group sales – excluding the petrol business – up 4.7% Growing wholesale and franchise Although neither division set the world on fire last year, with wholesale revenue edging up 2.9% It expects to add a similar number this year.

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