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After 70 Years, IKEA Disassembles Both Print and Digital Catalogs

Retail TouchPoints

The digital version debuted in 2000, and at its peak in 2016, 200 million copies were distributed in 69 different versions, in 32 languages and to more than 50 markets. In what the company termed an “emotional but rational” decision, Inter IKEA Systems B.V. , in a statement.

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Leveling The Retail Analytics Playing Field

RTP blog

And retail is no exception. Brick-and-mortar retailers have, in the past, failed to keep pace with their e-Commerce rivals in the capture and use of data to optimize the customer experience. The playing field between online and offline retail analytics has truly been levelled.

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The Reality Of The Online Customer Journey

RTP blog

By not evaluating the true speed of their checkout process, online retailers risk maintaining a site with more abandoned carts than successful orders. It’s foolproof: Since online platforms remove a major human element from the shopping equation, retailers often assume they have successfully erased human error from their site.

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Crafts, Gifts & Non-Profit Ecommerce Site Design

BigCommerce

Because more than three-fourths of our customers are women, we work to make our products, our site experience, and our customer experiences welcoming, lightheartedly sincere and humorous. Here’s how Man Crates leveraged APIs to automate and scale to one of the fastest growing online retailers in the U.S.

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The Very Group appoints Lionel Desclée as group CEO

365 Retail

Under Lionel’s stewardship, Seiyu accelerated its move into digital through a joint venture with online retailer Rakuten, secured record-breaking colleague engagement, grew customer satisfaction and increased market share. He led Walmart’s subsequent partial exit from Seiyu to investor KKR and Rakuten.

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Record-Breaking Online Black Friday and Cyber Monday Results Point to a New Future for Holiday Shopping

Sailthru

As predicted, online retail results from this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday were record breaking. While this is big news, other online sales stats reveal that sales for the entire month of November have grown as well. Online Sales Records Set for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and November. percent over 2016 to $7.9

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Win Customers and App Downloads with App Clips

Retail TouchPoints

If you work in online retail, you’re likely aware of an inconvenient paradox: App users are more valuable than non-app customers. For the full list of insights, check out our post: Market Study: Mobile Customer Experience Issues Highlight Use Cases for iOS App Clips.

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