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How Kids Foot Locker Inspires Gen Alpha…from TikTok to the Metaverse

Retail TouchPoints

While many brands and retailers are focusing on engaging Gen Z, Gen Alpha is slowly creeping into the picture. Gen Alpha — consumers born after 2010 — have grown up immersed in technology. Kids Foot Locker aims to create opportunities for them to do just that through metaverse experiences and even through TikTok campaigns.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

Ready to grow even further, the company launched a digital transformation to swap out its legacy systems, advance customer knowledge through data and provide a truly omnichannel customer experience. Larocque has spent more than 20 years with Burton, becoming SVP Operations in 2010.

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The End of D2C as we Know it: Enter Direct-to-Retail

Retail TouchPoints

The early 2000s saw the beginning of an online media push that brought standardized content from one brand to many consumers. Mobile-targeted direct-to-consumer brands (D2C) brands reigned from 2010 to 2021, ushering in new ways to get in touch with their customers directly.

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Why Retailers Need to Prepare for the Social Commerce Boom

365 Retail

With Social Commerce, retailers have to ship single units to sometimes hundreds of thousands of individual locations, all the while maintaining the consumer promise of timely delivery. Social Commerce and its direct-to-consumer approach also demands even greater agility and flexibility in terms of the customer experience and customer service.

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20 Experts Predict the Future of Ecommerce

Smile.io

In an economy where costs matter more than anything, to avoid the race to the bottom is to pull the right levers on the customer experience side. Shipping is where there are a lot more options and flexibility in what brands can give their customers.” Prediction: “Content will become truly shoppable.

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Inside the ‘Online Mall’ Simon has Created for its Outlet Brands

Retail TouchPoints

Buy.com was acquired by Japanese marketplace juggernaut Rakuten in 2010; Grover ran that company’s North American business for several years before joining a private equity firm that bought fashion site Bluefly.com , which he helped turn into a marketplace and then operated. after Amazon and eBay.