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Introducing The Forrester Readiness Index Report: eCommerce, 2016

Forrester eCommerce

With the increasing significance of the online channel in retail, we need variables other than macroeconomic data or consumer market size to assess the readiness of a market for eCommerce.

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Amazon Brings Live Shopping to Streaming TV

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon is expanding the reach of its Amazon Live shopping content with the debut of a new interactive shoppable channel on the Prime Video and Freevee streaming TV services. Now, the new Amazon Live FAST channel aims to blend the experience of a shoppable social feed with streaming TV via 24/7 programming.

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The Path of Today’s CPG Brands

Retail TouchPoints

The CPG (consumer-packaged goods) industry is on an exciting and transitionary path. Virtually everything about the category has changed over the last 15 years, from the way brands develop and bring products to market to how consumers learn about and purchase them. The way consumers connect with brands and products has changed too.

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After 25 Years, a Rebrand is Just the Beginning for Edible

Retail TouchPoints

When I started out [formally at the company] in 2016, I was on the tech side; then I moved into operations, then back to tech where I ran the tech division. VP of Ecommerce was my first role that was more front-end, consumer-facing, and when I jumped into that role in 2019, we were in a pretty severe decline in the ecommerce channel.

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Digital Commerce and the Threat of Card-not-present Fraud

BigCommerce

Consumers shop more and more across a variety of devices and channels. Retailers continually optimize their sales channels to deliver more seamless consumer experiences. The method in which consumers shop is continually evolving. In 2016, shoppers spent more than $1.9 Take digital commerce, for example.

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Encourage Your Customers to Call Again. Here’s How.

Retail TouchPoints

Phone-based customer service, or voice, is well established as the most commonly used and the most tightly managed customer service channel. Phone — the Most Expensive CX Channel Retailers want their customers to be happy, but the cost of interacting with them live is usually inefficient and expensive.

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Online or Offline Sales? Why not Both?

Retail TouchPoints

There are some products consumers will never feel entirely comfortable buying exclusively online. Many consumers prefer visiting a store to give their mattresses a bounce before making a purchase. Consumers can visit a store to physically check out a mattress and then return home to make the purchase online and schedule delivery.