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How the Y2K Revival is Expanding True Religion’s Shopper Community

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But Wells knows that to successfully acquire this coveted group of consumers while also retaining its incredibly loyal base of millennial shoppers, the brand can’t simply live in the past. Starting as a Senior Designer in 2006, he worked his way up to VP of Innovation before he left the company in 2017.

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

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Today, it is possible to stimulate all consumer senses online. Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Key takeaways: SETs enable brands to craft exemplary customer experiences online by appealing to consumers’ multisensory perception.

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How Best Buy, Nordstrom and Ulta Are Nailing the Brick and Click Customer Experience

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But more than that, they illustrate the opportunity brands have to leverage their scale and modernize the customer experience. Those who are not only surviving, but thriving, in today’s complicated retail landscape understand that consumers don’t look at shopping as “I’ll buy this online and that in a store.” Census data.

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3 Post-COVID Benefits of Contactless Payments for Retailers (and 3 for Customers)

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So what are some of the post-COVID benefits of these true contactless payment solutions for retailers and their customers? Maintaining payment terminals can be costly and time-consuming to purchase and maintain. Retailer bonus: A fast transaction doesn’t only benefit the customer but the retailer as well. Reduced hardware costs.

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

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Consumers have moved on to a very digitally led lifestyle and mindset, whereas the retail industry, at least many legacy retailers, still think of digital commerce as separate from store commerce. . This strategy could hold water. And governance consultant Diligent expects investor activism to increase again in 2022.

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Best Headless Commerce Platforms in 2023

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Retrofitted headless solutions allow for design, flexibility, and positive UI experiences on the consumer-facing front-end. Since its founding in 2006, Commercetools software has been implemented by Fortune 500 companies across industries. This means that adding new features may require an in-house development team.

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Five Pandemic-Driven Trends Reshaping Retail CX Strategy

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Left with little choice, consumers have largely resigned themselves to waiting additional days or even weeks for their orders, but what they’ve become less willing to tolerate is a lack of information about order status. Prior to joining Linc, Stelter was the Chief Revenue Officer for Pypestream.

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