Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The holiday season has always been prime time for retailers to roll out new marketing campaigns, events and experiences that draw people to their stores — and keep them there. Despite these reservations, 47% of consumers plan to shop in-store this holiday season, an 8% increase from 2020.

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JULY 2, 2020

For consumers, that’s a lot of power. And for retailers, that’s a lot of competition. Retailers that can provide a satisfying shopping experience have a strong advantage, but consumers are a demanding bunch. With such high standards set, other retailers must now keep up. Think Small. Embrace Partnerships.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With COVID-19 case counts declining and vaccination efforts underway, eager consumers and retailers are both looking hopefully toward a future return to normal. The study draws on the expertise of its team of global analysts covering 100 countries around the world to identify the traits that will define consumer behavior this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

In today’s market landscape, ethical, political and environmental considerations increasingly sway consumer purchasing decisions, particularly when it comes to packaging. From exaggerated health claims to misleading descriptions of ingredients, deceptive labeling erodes consumer trust and undermines brand credibility.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. And yet the process that brands use for bringing products to market to serve that consumer hadn’t evolved at all.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. And just like last year, it looks like consumers will respond by turning to ecommerce. 31, 2021. “We’re

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Today’s retail supply chains have evolved into complex global webs of infrastructure, vehicles and people that move products from raw material to end consumer. It is a crucial step that can make or break the consumer experience and therefore a company’s reputation and future sales. Today’s consumers expect fast, free deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Traditional retailers across the country have been playing catch-up for decades, trying to meet the changing needs of the consumer. Shoppers increasingly want the convenience of online shopping and anywhere fulfillment. In the midst of these accelerated changes, few jobs have changed more than retail work.

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ChannelAdvisor

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Each year, the holiday shopping season shatters new e-commerce records, and 2020 will be no different. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more brands have shifted online, more consumers are using online channels to shop and buy and more online orders are being shipped. . Unfortunately, there’s no magic bullet for brands and retailers.

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Groove

APRIL 1, 2022

Introduction Because you’re reading this eBook, you’re likely an eCommerce retailer selling consumer packaged goods online, or you own a brick-and-mortar store and want to transition to eCommerce. What are Consumer Packaged Goods? First, let’s define what you’re trying to sell — consumer packaged goods. Read on for more!

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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 One point of concern that has picked up traction in the media is that December retail sales were down 0.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s the question every retailer wants the answer to: what do consumers (and more specifically, those likely to buy their products) really want? Opening day of the 2021 virtual Retail Innovation Conference , which continues today, Nov. Consumers Want Retailers to Catch Up With Their Omnichannel Shopping Behaviors.

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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. In tandem, consumer expectations have grown. Why Being a ‘Real-Time’ Retailer is More Important Than Ever Before.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

consumers to return to some version of normalcy, global sentiment is still mixed, according to Kantar’s Wave 9 survey of more than 10,000 people across 20 countries. Up to 70% of people still agree that the coronavirus situation concerns them “hugely,” a slight drop from 79% in April 2020. Do you agree?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2021

Another retail holiday season has come and gone — and the 2020 season was unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Let’s review the biggest trends of the 2020 season — including takeaways for retailers to engage staff, delight customers and demonstrate resilience in the year ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There are signs of a disconnect between consumers and retailers when it comes to sustainability. A recent report has found that two-thirds of consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable products than retailers expect — and reveals that consumer preference for recommerce models is also being underserved.

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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. But not every brick-and-mortar grocery store is destined to become a micro-fulfillment center. Hybrid Shopping is Here to Stay.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to one of the worst financial quarters in retail’s modern history, and the near-universal rise in e-Commerce sales is of little comfort to retailers that are staring down double-digit declines in their brick-and-mortar businesses. Successful Omnichannel Retailers Reap E-Commerce Benefits.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The last three years have been a whirlwind for retailers and CPG companies. Now, the landscape is shifting again, and it’s a mix of good and bad news for retailers and CPGs. For example, with the growth of omnichannel orders, retail employees have needed to pick and pack items at the store level.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Retailers seeking guidance as they look ahead to an uncertain Q4 will find plenty of solid, practical advice in the 2020 Retail Strategy and Planning series of webinars, now available on-demand. Following are brief recaps of the #RSP20 sessions: Online Retailers Must Look to Automation to Support Global Expansion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Editor’s note: As retail interfaces and systems continue to evolve, the way we design retail experiences to user needs and behaviors is also transforming. For the past decade or so, big-name retailers have turned to designers and experiential agencies to create multisensory atmospheres in stores. virtual reality). 74% of U.S.

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lateshipment

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A question that is largely on the minds of retailers and consumers alike. With COVID-19 still at large, consumers will be making difficult shopping choices and retailers will be scratching their heads for a strategy that will bring them a great sale. What are consumers planning? In 2019, holiday sales were up 4.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. In the face of these challenging factors, the stars are aligning to deliver another “unprecedented” holiday season for the retail industry. Loyalty Shifts to Value.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2021

A year of quick pivots for the retail industry, 2020 required brands to rapidly adjust their spaces to account for social distancing and the safety measures of consumers, staff and everyone in between. In order to lean into creating safer environments, we saw the rise of flexible fulfillment and contactless payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2021

As more consumers are vaccinated and COVID restrictions begin to ease, the key questions many retailers will be asking are what will consumers want to buy, and how can they make sure they have the right product, in the right place, as consumers start to resume some of their pre-pandemic activities?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

Returns provide brands and retailers the opportunity to delight their customers. But not all brands and retailers are seizing this opportunity. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), the U.S. market saw over $400B in returns in 2020. After all, consumers need to be able to bring back certain items.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Leadership pointed to two core areas for driving that growth: the fresh food segment and digital, which was described as “a growth engine” for the supermarket retailer, one of the nation’s biggest. . In 2020 alone, driven largely by COVID-19, digital sales doubled , as did the number of households using Kroger’s network of digital offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 2021 Connected Consumer Series reflected the challenges retail (and society as a whole) have faced during the past year, but also the growing sense of optimism that is taking hold this year. 5 Social Advertising Trends for Retailers to Know in 2021: Featuring Under Armour. Retail CX Trends 2021: New CX for a New World.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Even the best business plans expect some bumps along the road: financial insecurity among consumers, supply chain complications, a shortage of labor or reduced in-store traffic. But the COVID-19 pandemic forced retailers to grapple with all of the above, all at once. Emerging Consumer Trends. A Look at the Market.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2021

More and more retailers are jumping on the marketplace bandwagon — Lands’ End , Hudson’s Bay and Woolworths in Australia are just a few of the new entrants this year alone. If you’ve noticed a lot of new third-party marketplaces popping up lately, you’re not imagining things.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2021

The surge is being attributed to the high number of ecommerce orders during the holiday season, along with the abundance of return options retailers are using to help manage traffic and let shoppers make returns safely. The pandemic has made consumers more open to alternative return options. UPS expects to handle 8.75 An estimated 1.75

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

and $27 billion in 2021 and reached an estimated 11,800 retailers in 2022, according to data from the MJBiz Factbook. A Gallup poll found that 68% of Americans believe marijuana should be legal and 16% of adults aged 26 and over used cannabis in the past year, making the trajectory clear —traditional retailers, take note.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

is now private-label, and a new high for private-label brands was reached in 2022, with sales across retail channels reaching $228.6 A particular area of focus is within the health and wellness sector, with around 50% of consumers now saying that wellness is a top priority in their lives. One in four products sold in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

There are a lot of people making a good living forecasting what’s going to happen in retail. Things like ecommerce will soon eclipse brick-and-mortar, retail is facing an apocalypse or delivery to home will become the norm in grocery shopping. The fact is, when it comes to what’s ahead for retail, no one really knows.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

Digital convenience store Gopuff has raised $1 billion in new funding at a $15 billion valuation as the retailer sets the pace for the c-store last mile. While the retailer started out with a focus on college campuses, it has evolved alongside its millennial customer base and now serves a primarily 30+ demographic. delivery charge.

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