Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2021

We were on a strong growth trajectory heading into 2020 and, fortunately, we’ve been able to accelerate our momentum and grow both our sales and our brand community this year despite all the challenges,” Shokrian said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. How 2020 has shaped Shokrian as a business leader. looks like,” Shokrian said.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Holiday season 2020 has come to an end, so what now? Post-holiday season for retailers is a period of recovery centered around understanding what happened during the holiday and how to move forward with the transaction cycle, while also preparing for ongoing omnichannel business. Post-Holiday Omnichannel Success.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

Additional results for the 2020 holiday season are coming in, and the outlook is rosy despite the unprecedented challenges: Adobe Analytics pegged year-over-year online shopping growth at 32.2% , totaling $188.2 growth over all channels, reaching $789.4 Retailers With an Omnichannel Lead Flexed it During Holiday 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

The company’s wholesale business is still thriving, but now it’s only part of an omnichannel strategy that includes ecommerce , social commerce and marketplaces. But Ken Natori wasn’t a fashion executive, and that made him the perfect fit to lead the transformation of this designer label into an omnichannel brand. “My

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Omnisend

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

While many preached omnichannel in retail and ecommerce, few walked the walk. How brands and retailers can provide a truly omnichannel customer experience. Omnichannel Retailing: Risks, Rewards, and Mistakes. Changes across the past two years have rocked retail, ecommerce, and digital marketing industries.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

The beverage alcohol company, which has operated as a traditional distributor-based wholesale business for decades, is currently in the process of building out standalone websites for its key brands as it moves toward becoming a customer-centric omnichannel operation. A Key Acquisition Helps Shape the Future of Constellation’s Business.

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Omnisend

MARCH 23, 2020

Adding SMS marketing to your email automation workflow may be the best thing you do for your marketing strategy in 2020 and beyond. Far from a new channel in the digital marketing world, many marketers and online sellers are beginning to adopt SMS as a primary vector in their omnichannel strategies.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2022

Following a successful 2021 pilot that offered brands sponsored on-site ads, Nordstrom Media Network (NMN) has expanded to include off-site channels including paid social and display ads, YouTube video, search and shopping ads and affiliate campaigns.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

Carolyn Bojanowski has been with Sephora since the days when “Friendster was the social media channel of choice,” as she puts it. In that time, Bojanowski has seen her fair share of shifts and transformations in the business, but even still 2020 stood out, as it did for many retail executives.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The all-important holiday season always demands retailers’ full engagement and energy, but the 2020 holiday season presents unique challenges. This poses unprecedented uncertainties for retail pricing and merchandising teams for the holidays in 2020. Speaking of Online and In-Store Channels…. A Bewildering Competitive Landscape.

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Omnisend

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The challenge for ecommerce businesses is the average customer uses ten different channels, including contact forms, social media profiles, live chat, and email—making it hard for companies to know where to focus their efforts. What is Omnichannel Support? Benefits of Omnichannel Customer Support. Learn more!

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Omniconvert

APRIL 1, 2020

With so much newfangled marketing-speak and bits of jargon (Cross-channel? The post Omnichannel Strategy Evaluation: Is It Right for Your e-Commerce Business For 2020 and Beyond? It’s time to cut through all the noise. Conversion rate. appeared first on ECOMMERCE GROWTH Blog.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 20, 2021

In 2020, the pandemic significantly impacted the entire retail industry. For consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, in particular, this change in the way consumers shop necessitated a different approach: omnichannel. Director, GM of Omnichannel at BigCommerce. So what exactly is an omnichannel strategy? Claim your copy!

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Optimizely

MAY 27, 2020

With June just around the corner, it’s time for our Spring 2020 Release. The Zaius team spent most of the year’s second quarter building upon features that we released at the beginning of 2020, including On-Site Personalization, new Touchpoint Summary Reports, and our SMS & MMS solution. The Engagement Report for a Web Modal.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Black Friday 2020 was harsh for brick-and-mortar retailers, with traffic down an estimated 49% compared to 2019 according to data from Sensormatic Solutions. Offering the best of both channels will be essential for success during the remainder of the holiday season and beyond.

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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. Building a Foundation for Growth With rapid buzz comes a distinct need to understand and respond to demand, especially as new sales channels launch.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The aim was to reach more consumers — particularly younger ones — even if that meant going outside Party City’s owned channels, said Vishwas Bharadwaj, the company’s VP of Marketplaces. 2020 and the pandemic proved to be a critical turning point for Party City, both in its marketplaces journey and for the business as a whole.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Consumer expectations of retailers have been transformed by their experiences buying from Amazon and other innovative retailers that are able to provide fast, efficient omnichannel experiences. Americans spent more money online during the 2020 holiday season than previously, with revenues growing 32% year-over-year and exceeding $188.2

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SAP wants to create a product portfolio that can be used for a “commerce anywhere” strategy — one that allows for personalized digital experiences at any channel at any time. Its operations will become part of the SAP Customer Experience business unit after the transaction closes, which is expected in Q4 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

million for its FY 2020, compared to a loss of more than $200 million the previous year. It credited strategic investments, such as those that went into developing an omnichannel retail ecosystem. So now what about the ecommerce part of the omnichannel equation? Profits at Barbie and Hot Wheels firm Mattel were $126.6

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The all-important holiday season always demands retailers’ full engagement and energy, but the 2020 holiday season presents unique challenges. This poses unprecedented uncertainties for retail pricing and merchandising teams for the holidays in 2020. Speaking of Online and In-Store Channels…. A Bewildering Competitive Landscape.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

Preliminary holiday 2020 results have proven unsurprising so far: analysts expect modest year-over-year growth fueled by a massive increase in ecommerce activity across a longer-than-usual season. 24, 2020), or 2.4% However, the larger story of holiday 2020 is still being written. 11 through Dec. during the traditional Nov.

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lateshipment

OCTOBER 16, 2020

With the Coronavirus pandemic still looming large, Holiday Season 2020 will be similar to the months of March through October than when compared to last year’s holiday season. Holiday season 2020 from a consumer standpoint. Holiday season 2020 from a retailer’s standpoint. Retail’s new normal. The future present is online.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Fabletics will open 30 new store locations in 2022 as it continues building out its omnichannel presence. The retailer also will celebrate a series of belated Grand Re-Opening events on March 5 for the 21 Fabletics locations that have opened since early 2020 but had their festivities delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2022

Food retail demand has become fractured across multiple channels, with traditional brick-and-mortar formats losing out to the online medium. in September 2020 after significant rises across the year. Grocery Shopper Trends 2020 report , grocery shoppers now visit 5.1 In 2019, online grocery accounted for 6.3% and then 20.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In today’s world brands need to be omnipresent, having digital footprints across several channels. A recent study found that 68% of Gen Z shoppers planned to use non-traditional channels for Black Friday and Christmas shopping, with Instagram (47%) taking the lead as a holiday shopping platform. Looking Ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2021

Many stores, including retail giants Walmart, Target, Best Buy, DICK’S Sporting Goods and Urban Outfitters, introduced or expanded game-changing buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) capabilities in 2020. Curbside pickup increased by more than 500% from the end of 2019 to August 2020. billion in 2020, up 32.4%

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365 Retail

JULY 14, 2021

But even as the social environment returns to ‘normal,’ the dramatic pandemic-era shift to online channels will persist, and retailers need to be much more vigilant than in past back-to-school seasons about presenting current, relevant prices and promotions to shoppers both in-store and online. Science-Based Pricing is Now Imperative.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

The retailer made the decision to close all its stores in March 2020 due to the pandemic, including flagships in New York and Los Angeles and a number of pop-ups in cities including Seattle, Boston and London.

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RetailDive

JANUARY 5, 2021

Buying across both store and online channels increased 50% in 2020 and doesn't show signs of slowing anytime soon, the data firm noted.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2021

Walmart’s biggest booster was online sales, which grew a healthy 37% across all channels. The generally positive retail environment, especially compared to the difficulty of Q1 2020, led Macy’s to a significant comparable sales increase of 62.5%. Walmart ’s Q1 2022 revenue rose 2.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

atmos offers premium sneakers and apparel, including an exclusive in-house label and collaborative partnerships with sneaker vendors as well as experiential stores and an omnichannel platform. The retailer makes more than 60% of its earnings, which totaled $175 million in 2020, through digital channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At Glossier, Leahy will be responsible for driving revenue and building end-to-end customer experiences across channels as head of the Retail, Sales, International and Operations teams. The three flagship stores will mark Glossier’s return to the brick-and-mortar space after shuttering all its stores in March 2020 due to the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Consumers Want Retailers to Catch Up With Their Omnichannel Shopping Behaviors. Omnichannel is so important for us right now as the retail industry, and all industries for that matter, are hit with supply chain issues,” said Aaron Veit, Director of Digital Product Management at Crate & Barrel.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

As CCO, Dausch will lead global brand, marketing, digital engagement and customer experience across all of Under Armour’s commerce channels, reporting directly to CEO Stephanie Linnartz, who herself came to Under Armour from Marriott in December 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Besides trying to keep their stores sufficiently stocked, the biggest challenge for many grocery retailers in 2020 was trying to determine what shopper behaviors would remain in place post-pandemic. This makes it essential that retailers continue to invest in creating a seamless omnichannel shopper experience. Only more so.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

“The Big Lots team is focused on delivering exceptional service and continued growth across our channels, and that includes meeting customers’ increasing desire for immediate, integrated online shopping experiences,” said Erica Fortune, VP of E-Commerce at Big Lots in a statement.

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