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Harnessing the Potential of Returnless Refunds to Improve Profitability and Customer Experience

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Retail’s busiest returns period may be in the rearview mirror until next year, but rising ecommerce order volumes have caused returns management to become an aspect of ecommerce and omnichannel business that warrants a dedicated year-round strategy. Returns are a major cost of doing retail business of any kind, but especially online.

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La-Z-Boy Deploys Omnichannel ‘Listening’ Solution to Boost Understanding of Shopping Behaviors

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Furniture brand La-Z-Boy has implemented a new omnichannel listening solution as part of its ongoing strategy to evolve the brand and grow customer loyalty. The XI Platform leverages InMoment’s text analytics engine and deep learning AI to help users understand and respond to all the dynamics impacting the omnichannel business.

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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

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Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. Benefits stemming from omnichannel strategies also have been spreading widely across the retail enterprise.

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Now or Never: The Importance of Implementing an Omnichannel Strategy

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The pandemic has created challenges for retailers at many levels: business viability, supply-chain disruptions, predictability, customer relationships — the list goes on. As businesses move online, quickly adapting to maintain a seamless customer experience has become mandatory. Take a Down-to-Earth Approach.

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Your ID-POS are a Data Treasure Trove: How to Leverage them to Drive Customer Experiences

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Let’s dive straight into it and unriddle the mystery of creating modern, highly personalized customer experiences while increasing performance in the cookieless future. Data Quality, Automation and Flexibility The Lawson team analyzed and used ID-POS data to extract features based on customer value. trillion in value.

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Inside MINISO’s ‘Joyful’ Omnichannel Expansion Plan

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As MINISO sets its sights on omnichannel growth, the company is leaning into other key differentiators: a strong supply chain, original designs, and licensing partnerships with some of the world’s most renowned brands, including Disney, Universal and the NBA. Liu: When expanding, MINISO takes two major things into consideration.

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Let’s Move from Fast Promising to Smart Promising

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And although omnichannel fulfillment is growing in importance, they still want to drive offline sales and bring people into the store, while also minimizing the impact of shipping costs on their bottom line. According to a recent survey , 38% of retailers are worried about meeting consumers’ fast delivery expectations.