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

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….

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. McKinsey, 2020) In recent years, online shopping has grown at a tremendous rate. This is no longer science fiction. Today, it is possible to stimulate all consumer senses online. 74% of U.S. Online sales reached $4.9

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

Here are a few ways innovative technologies can help in the quest to reduce retail returns. Virtual fitting technologies help consumers make the right selection the first time. The ability to aggregate data across every channel in real time and predict behavior enables stores to deploy a more dynamic and personalized approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2024

Still, as the technology becomes more advanced, it’s important to pause and really understand the ramifications of LLMs in adtech, particularly for creating a competitive, equitable and inclusive advertising ecosystem. This technology is used to personalize content at scale and generate content for marketing campaigns and informational pages.

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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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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

JUNE 28, 2023

The retailer also has promoted Danny Miles to EVP, Chief Technology Officer and announced the departure of current COO Colin Browne and Chief Product Officer (CPO) Lisa Collier. Miles, who also will report directly to Linnartz, joined Under Armour in 2021.

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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. Providing Various Payments Technologies.

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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….

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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

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. The space features rolling moss hills, massive boulders and floral and mushroom details throughout the terrarium-like space.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

Google has yet to officially do away with third-party cookies after announcing their removal from its Chrome browser in early 2020 , but the clock is ticking toward the final expiration date of tracking codes as a means to target and measure ads online. Understand the right technology for you. Evaluate your customer relationships.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

2020 put a new spin on the old adage, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.” As consumers continue to rely on digital channels for services that still cannot take place (or that they don’t yet feel comfortable doing) in person, a positive experience across all channels will play a pivotal role in purchasing decisions and loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2024

However, experts indicate that the mainstream adoption of RFID, coupled with the implementation of connected technology, are creating new opportunities for brands and retailers to streamline fitting room operations and improve customer experiences. And meet a need the fitting room technology did.

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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. She will work closely with Chief Marketing Officer Ali Weiss and Chief Technology Officer Pawan Uppuluri to help maintain the brand both online and offline.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

2020 has been a year marked by a series of uncertainties. Consumer behaviors have been uprooted and ecommerce has supplanted brick-and-mortar as the primary sales channel. Omnichannel brands can look to convert closed or low-traffic brick-and-mortar locations into dark stores. decrease in offline sales in 2020 3.

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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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365 Retail

MAY 17, 2022

Axerve, Payment Partner to Grow, specialising in creating accessible and frictionless payment solutions for Ecommerce and physical sales, today announces the release of a new white paper, ‘ New technologies and trends in digital payments in 2022 ’. billion in fees, labour, and lost business in 2020.

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iVend

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

September 23, 2020 – CitiXsys, developer of the enterprise retail management solution, iVend Retail , is being recognised for supporting the global retail community with a 2020 Tech Cares Award from TrustRadius. We have been completely inspired by the way the B2B technology industry responded to COVID-19.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

Source: ThredUP, 2020 Resale Report. Retailers must invest in innovative engagement strategies and channels to connect with their customers and leverage the power of influencers to amplify their brands. The QVC of the future for Gen Z is going to be TikTok, Instagram and the myriad social media channels they are glued to.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2021

That was reflected in AEO’s Q4 2020 update, which showed Aerie’s Q4 revenue projected to increase in the high 20% range, while American Eagle’s is expected to decline in the low double digits. Final Q4 and fiscal year 2020 results are expected on March 3. “I billion , up more than $400 million from 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

said Michael Conway, Group President of International and Channel Development at Starbucks in a statement. “We We will become truly global as we create the surround-sound of omnichannel strategies in the 86 markets where we sell Starbucks coffee.” through more hours and higher wages.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As consumers adopted more and more digital technologies to cope with social distancing during the early stages of the pandemic (ecommerce chief among them), their familiarity with these technologies grew — leading to a series of lasting consumer behavior changes that we’re still adapting to as an industry.

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retailnext

APRIL 1, 2021

In my first blog post, “ The Relevance of Physical Retail in the Customer Channel ,” available on empatheticmachines.org , I spoke about the relevance of physical retail today as well as introduced the idea of the Customer Channel. Today, I’m going to dive into some of the technology empowering the Customer Channel in physical retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

Up to 70% of people still agree that the coronavirus situation concerns them “hugely,” a slight drop from 79% in April 2020. So far, sanitation and even the installation of new air-circulation technology to cleanse the air of aerosols have been less effective than hoped. However, in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the culture of work for all employees, from white collar office workers going remote to associates on the front lines of stores picking up omnichannel roles. For example, associates have used the retailer’s proprietary NM Connect selling tool more than 10 million times since it was introduced in March 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2021

Conversational marketing enables marketers to build brand equity and improve campaign performance by transforming the customer experience through a combination of strategy, approach and technology. Despite the demand, there remains an opportunity gap for retail brands to adopt two-way channels and a conversational mindset.

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RTP blog

APRIL 27, 2018

However, retailers are facing new disruptive realities from three major influences: omnichannel experience, the growing Millennial workforce and innovative technology. The Omnichannel Shift Online retailers are changing how traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are going to market.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

billion worldwide in 2020, and thanks to a 27.25% compound annual growth rate, the budding industry (no pun intended) is expected to reach $54.41 Through an interactive activation , attendees can venture through the shopping experience and see how the brands combine high-touch service and immersive technology to better serve consumers.

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GetElastic

APRIL 11, 2023

The world of commerce is evolving rapidly, and brands need to keep up with the latest technologies and trends to stay ahead of the game. One of the most powerful recent commerce technologies is headless commerce. billion in financing has been obtained for headless commerce in 2020 and 2021 alone. According to a study , over $1.65

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Developed to help consumer brands and retailers optimize and scale their omnichannel and ecommerce operations, SoundCommerce integrates data from siloed sources across a company to give decision makers a comprehensive, real-time view of the business. The company also plans to scale its marketing, sales and channel partnership activities.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2020

In addition, “store associates and managers have taken on more responsibility over the years, from the buy online, pickup in-store trend to personalizing experiences for every shopper on every channel, while also having to be product and style experts,” said Oscar Sachs, CEO of Salesfloor in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Spanish fashion retailer Encuentro Moda is deploying a radio frequency identification solution across its 125 stores, both to meet omnichannel requirements and to gain visibility into the stock availability at each store and throughout the supply chain. In July 2020, Encuentro Moda began working with Nedap by integrating the provider’s !

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Mi9

JULY 28, 2020

Today it is more critical than ever to quantify the value impact of a technology investment in order to make a well-informed decision and drive consensus internally. Having the right technology in place to be able to adapt to new or changing trends quickly will be a major success factor coming out of the crisis. download now.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Before they’ve even started, the 2020 2021 Olympic Games have already made history. Here are four things the Retail Touchpoints editorial team will be watching as the Summer Olympics kick off: Will ecommerce channels and off-site pop-ups be able to make up for the loss of stadium sales ? NBC’s hybrid 2020/2021 logo.

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