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Store Management Costs in the Era of Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

Food retail demand has become fractured across multiple channels, with traditional brick-and-mortar formats losing out to the online medium. For grocers’ customer base, the increasing appeal is to adopt a more omnichannel approach to consumption — a sign of the epidemic of increasing customer disloyalty. of total US grocery sales.

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A Blog Isn’t a Blog, It’s a Business

Kissmetrics

I wrote my very first blog post on July 24, 2005. But you know what, back in 2005, the blog post was pretty darn good. But you know what, back in 2005, the blog post was pretty darn good. And in 2005, the web was still so small that there were only 64 million websites (with only a small portion of them being blogs).

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Macy’s vs. HBC: Two Different Takes on the Ecommerce Spinoff

Retail TouchPoints

However, with the prevailing winds of retail moving in the direction of “channel integration,” “omnichannel,” “frictionless experiences,” (insert your favorite buzzword here), the broad consensus among retail experts is that ecommerce spinoffs are a terrible idea. The push toward omnichannel retail isn’t going away either.

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First Quarter Feedback for Grocery Retail: Insights from the Start of 2021

Retail TouchPoints

This makes it essential that retailers continue to invest in creating a seamless omnichannel shopper experience. But with consumers struggling, trading partners that optimize their promotion strategies — across channels — will be well positioned to grow share while protecting precious and increasingly precarious shopper loyalty.

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First Quarter Feedback for Grocery Retail: Insights from the Start of 2021

Retail TouchPoints

This makes it essential that retailers continue to invest in creating a seamless omnichannel shopper experience. But with consumers struggling, trading partners that optimize their promotion strategies — across channels — will be well positioned to grow share while protecting precious and increasingly precarious shopper loyalty.

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The Very Group appoints Lionel Desclée as group CEO

365 Retail

Between 2005 and 2016, Lionel held a number of senior roles at global retail business Delhaize Group, with responsibility for 750 franchised or affiliated stores in Belgium and Luxembourg and more than 1,600 supermarkets on the US East Coast.

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Traditionally, online retailers mainly make use of two sensory channels to offer their customer an experience: the visual sense and the auditory sense. Kitagawa and Igarashi (2005) used sound to induce virtual touch sensations. 2006; Simmons et al. Visual and auditory information can influence product expectations (i.e.,