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Top 2020 Retail Challenges and How To Future-Proof for 2021

Retail TouchPoints

This left smaller retailers searching for ways to boost online sales performance and customer experiences in the face of such stiff competition, especially for leveraging big-ticket retail events — Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas — for securing much-needed revenue. Solution: Embrace Multichannel. However, IMF projects a 5.4%

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Tips for shipping success during the 2021 holiday season

Omnisend

The 2021 holiday season is already different from holiday seasons of the past, starting with manufacturing and trickling down to shipping. We’ve got some proactive measures you can take to navigate these challenging times and work toward keeping your customers as happy as possible. Customers expect the ability to make returns.

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Accelerate Order Management Success in 2021

Kibo

Even after a massive shift to ecommerce in 2020, eMarketer predicts that 2021 will still see more than 14% ecommerce growth. A great customer experience strategy is key in order to stay competitive, but it’s not worth the effort if retailers don’t also have their backend logistics and order management up to speed.

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Media Networks Beyond Retail: How to Activate Your Right to Win

Retail TouchPoints

By following the retailer playbook, companies with rich data sets can uncover powerful new insights that generate revenue opportunities, improve consumer understanding, deliver better customer experiences and forge new partnerships. Consider filling in these customer intelligence gaps by working with a third-party data provider.

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Marketing Automation: What is it, Examples & Tools [2021]

Kissmetrics

However, as customers evolve, so does the unpredictable marketing landscape. lets you send targeted messages to your customers that you can craft based on how they interact with your business. Other features include A/B testing, conversion tracking , customer profiles, and in-context conversations. Just call me Captain Obvious.

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Gap to Close all 81 UK Stores, Seek Franchise Partners for Other European Markets

Retail TouchPoints

Gap will be shuttering all 81 of its stores in the UK and Ireland by the end of September 2021 as part of a strategic review of its European business. The ecommerce business continues to grow, and we want to meet our customers where they are shopping.

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Petco Unleashes Rover.com to Offer Additional Services

Retail TouchPoints

Petco has partnered with online marketplace Rover to provide its pet parent customers with access to pet sitting, boarding and dog walking services directly from the retailer’s website. As a treat, first-time customers will receive a $10 discount on the services. But other pet care retailers are vying to be leader of the pack.