GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This post was originally published on March 11, 2019 and has been updated for accuracy and relevancy in the market. Why a Hybrid Customer Experience is Essential for Today’s Consumer. After all, that’s where the customers are, right? What exactly is a hybrid customer experience? There are 2.14

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GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This post was originally published on March 11, 2019 and has been updated for accuracy and relevancy in the market. Why a Hybrid Customer Experience is Essential for Today’s Consumer. After all, that’s where the customers are, right? What exactly is a hybrid customer experience? There are 2.14

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

A new research report conducted by UPS Capital, Personalized Shipping Experiences: The Next Frontier for eCommerce , shows that personalized shipping experiences have emerged as the next frontier for SMB retailers looking to provide an excellent customer experience in the wake of these supply chain disruptions.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, that doesn’t mean consumers don’t want to go to malls. In fact, more than 40% of adults reported visiting a mall within a two -week period in August, up from 35% at the beginning of June and 30% in the beginning of April, according to Coresight Research’s ongoing survey of 1,600 consumers.

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RTP blog

JULY 8, 2019

By Jamie Crespi, Blis Direct-to-consumer brands have been wildly successful the last few years — look at makeup and skincare company Glossier, which was just valued at $1.2 We live in a retail environment where consumers continue to demand more and more of the brands they buy from, or risk shuttering (as we’ve seen with Sears and Payless.)

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, other potentially even more significant trendlines show fundamental changes in consumers’ decision-making process related to picking brands and demonstrating customer loyalty. For example, the Qubit study found that loyalty is decreasing among a significant percentage of consumers: among 36.6% The survey of 809 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Understanding consumer behaviors will be key to building (or rebuilding) a successful retail business in a post-pandemic world. Data will fuel the shift to digital, according to expert contributors to the recent Retail TouchPoints (RTP) webinar, Analyzing The Shift To Digital From 7,000 Marketers And 1B Consumers Worldwide.

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ROI Revolution

JULY 3, 2019

ROI Revolution had a great time at IRCE 2019. Omnichannel. One of the largest topics covered across sessions at IRCE was omnichannel commerce. Omnichannel refers to creating a seamless user experience across all communication channels and supporting resources. But what about improving customer acquisition ?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Higher-income consumers are less impacted by inflation and, while aware of higher food, home and transportation costs, still have the funds to drive luxury sales and luxury growth,” said Marie Driscoll, Managing Director, Luxury and Retail at Coresight Research in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Tanger Outlets has responded to this message with urgency as it aims to engage and acquire a younger demographic of consumers. We’re pivoting away from being a real estate company and leaning into being an experience company,” said Stephen Yalof, CEO of Tanger Outlets in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. But the work is not done.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While news of potential COVID vaccines has many retailers anticipating a return to in-store shopping in 2021, this year’s Q3 financial results show that consumers’ hunger for ecommerce shows no sign of being sated. Long-Term Investments in Omnichannel and Supply Chains Pay Dividends at Big Box Retailers. for the quarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2023

External economic factors, such as fluctuating interest rates, an unpredictable housing market and persistent inflation have prompted consumers to rethink their spending habits. Faced with shifting economic and consumer dynamics, retail leaders strive to unlock strategies that turn losses into profits. In 2019, it declined to 6.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

“A well-crafted data strategy is the elixir to growth, especially for fast-growing brands with a strong omnichannel strategy,” Lisbona said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Touchland analyzed data to understand consumer behaviors and found that shoppers were buying six or seven units at a time. This is the key to growth.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Retailers considering the opportunity should keep in mind that: Flexibility has become paramount post-pandemic: The pandemic was a boon for cannabis with retailers in the space declared essential, home-bound consumers trying their first cannabis products and new delivery methods becoming legal in some areas.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

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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RTP blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Industry experts believe retailers will need to deepen their understanding and develop their capabilities in six key areas within e-Commerce: AI/Machine Learning , Personalization and Customer Engagement , Next-Generation Technologies , Global Commerce , Omnichannel and the Last Mile. Kearney on this topic.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2020

While many are wondering if large retailers like Macy’s, J.Crew and Neiman Marcus will retain their premiere places in malls, few are considering whether the world of direct-to-consumer or DTC will also stumble in this changed retail landscape. Throughout 2019, “digitally native vertical brands” were the darling of retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This new capability is an exciting way to help sellers reach and delight more customers with great products and convenience.”. Research from Google indicates that this holiday season will be more omnichannel in nature than any before it, with 64% of consumers saying that they plan to shop both online and in-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2021

Now more than ever, retailers are looking for solutions to create more seamless in-person and digital customer experiences. But while blending of in-store and online provides consumers with significantly more flexible shopping, it also creates operational challenges. Providing Various Payments Technologies.

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ROI Revolution

JUNE 27, 2019

IRCE 2019 Day 2 had a lot of great content on AI, personalization, and improving customer experiences. As the CEO & Founder of Framebridge, Susan Tynan has learned tons of lessons on how to deliver great, focused customer experiences. One lesson was that business pressures always conspire against the customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that). In fact, McNamara noted that Mastercard predicts a comeback for Black Friday 2022, with total sales exceeding 2019 results.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We needed a solution that allowed us to centralise our task management and communications across our entire store estate, to ensure the customer experience and ‘look and feel’ of our stores was both consistent and streamlined. Until then we had been using multiple, manual channels that were labour intensive.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But new direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands like Sundays are designed to streamline the process and develop multipurpose products that can adapt as consumers’ needs change. Sundays was founded in November 2019 by Barbora Samieian, Noah Morse, Sara Samieian, and Moe Samieian Jr., Owning the Entire Customer Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2021

When the economy is growing, consumers flock to stores. On the other hand, when a recession is imminent, consumers and their wallets generally stay put and are more conservative. This situation has forced retailers worldwide to adapt to a slew of new consumer demands while juggling a precarious supply chain. Cyber threats.

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Omnisend

MARCH 29, 2021

Consumers are just as (and perhaps arguably more so, thanks to COVID-19) comfortable buying new apparel online as they are in-store. Try Omnisend free for 14 days and use marketing automation to create a better customer experience! Omnichannel Fashion Ecommerce. Omnichannel marketing is only a few clicks away!

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OrderDynamics

JANUARY 24, 2019

NRF 2019 Observations . We’ve seen omnichannel, unified commerce, customer experience, AI, AR innovations emerge and become real. Another encouraging sign in 2018, has been companies focusing their strategies around the customer experience. Personalized Experiences Powered by AI & AR.

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OrderDynamics

APRIL 4, 2019

Will the New Checkout Feature on Instagram Will Help Omnichannel Retailers? The new checkout feature on Instagram, lets consumers find a product and pay for it in the app. It began its rollout on March 19 th , 2019. Consumers will then have the option to pay in three different ways. At least not yet.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

That means more consumers are venturing out into the world — and going back into stores. Research from Springboard points to similar results: the company’s latest Retail Consumer Survey indicated that 56% of consumers were “very” or “completely comfortable” visiting brick-and-mortar destinations, a steady increase from the 50% figure in May.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

These consumer sentiments, along with the need to protect the health of both shoppers and store associates, means retailers need to be stringent about enforcing social distancing and other safety measures as they reopen. In fact, displaying an abundance of caution will be required to bring many consumers back into physical stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Given that many of these expectations were first set by customers’ experience with Amazon , it should come as no surprise that third-party marketplaces have become a key tool for many retailers to meet these consumer demands. In 2019, 42% of U.S. consumers said they shopped exclusively, or a lot, on marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Households with children in elementary and high school are set to spend an average of $789.49 , far exceeding the 2019 record of $696.70. Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. per family, up from $976.78 — another record.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

When Payless ShoeSource filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2019, the company began two months of liquidation sales for its portfolio of approximately 2,500 North American locations and wound down its e-Commerce operations. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal , Margolis said “starting from scratch puts us in a good position.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

I would go on the road with my dad to visit stores and help open new ones, so I learned a lot at a really young age about customer experience and service. 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. [As

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2022

Walmart is also on that list, but it stands out because Walmart has the ability to introduce the power of AR to more consumers than almost any other retailer given its massive global reach. Every week approximately 220 million customers visit Walmart-owned banners across 24 countries and websites. Enter retail.

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ChannelAdvisor

AUGUST 22, 2019

So… what advice does Forrester have for online sellers as we enter the final shopping seasons of 2019? Top Retail Technology Investments in 2019. For The Top Retail Technology Investments in 2019 , Forrester evaluated 18 different types of technologies used by dozens of industry professionals. Access the full report here.

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Wiser

MARCH 7, 2024

The speakers shared their frontline experiences and the strategic pivots they made to keep pace with the rapidly changing consumer expectations and market dynamics. Observations indicate a return to pre-pandemic buying patterns, with expectations aligning more closely with consumer behaviors seen in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

debut in 2019 through the acquisition of KicksUSA , which gave the retailer access to 63 stores and an ecommerce platform. We are very focused on getting physically in front of our consumer, and i n Europe the strategy there is around very niche markets like dance, BMX, etc. European lifestyle brand Snipes kickstarted its U.S.

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