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Mattress Firm Puts IPO on Ice, Citing Market Volatility

Retail TouchPoints

In January 2022, the mattress chain announced its plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange via an IPO that would have returned the furniture retailer to the public markets six years after South Africa’s Steinhoff International took the company private. Today, Mattress Firm operates 2,300 stores across the U.S.

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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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This Holiday Marketing Campaign Increased Revenue by 108%

Groove

Final Draft, the world's #1 screenwriting software, challenged our team to answer both of these with a goal of surpassing revenue from their 2016 launch of Final Draft 10. Our team tackled this challenge head on and developed an integrated eCommerce inbound marketing campaign in Q3 of 2018. Email Marketing. A/B Email Testing.

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Amazon kicks off a product content space race

Forrester eCommerce

The Whole Foods acquisition by Amazon weeks ago was only the latest milepost in the latter's inexorable march to the top of retail. The company sold $136 billion worth of products in 2016 - more than any other online retailer (and just over a third of what Wal-Mart did).

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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. The Swedish print version debuted in 1951, with 285,000 copies distributed in southern Sweden. in a statement.

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

BigCommerce

Digital commerce continues to be top of mind for online retailers. Retailers continually optimize their sales channels to deliver more seamless consumer experiences. In 2016, shoppers spent more than $1.9 ecommerce market by 2020. In 2016, one research and advisory firm predicted CNP fraud will exceed $7.2

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Devising an Optimal Returns Policy for Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

Amid rising costs and fears of a looming recession, however, online retailers are finding they can no longer afford the level of generosity that customers have come to expect. The ecommerce website Jet.com, which was sold to Walmart in 2016, used this strategy — just to name one example.