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Cloud Native Value: Why Retailers Should Learn to do More With Less

Retail TouchPoints

Today, every one in five purchases is made online, largely due to changing consumer habits in the wake of lockdowns and other restrictions. A high level of services unique to each customer, delivered with little or no downtime, is what consumers now expect. Before the pandemic, ecommerce accounted for approximately 16% of all retail.

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The Increasingly Useless Middleman

Steve Dennis

The typical multi-brand retailer sits between the manufacturing community and its target consumers, performing valuable intermediary tasks like selecting the right products for the markets it serves, carrying local inventory, owning and creating attractive environments to sell the product, and so on.

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Omnisend vs. Dotdigital: A feature-by-feature comparison

Omnisend

Email gives brands an opportunity to reach customers over a channel they check voluntarily, without being too intrusive. You can also track your campaign’s performance and send it to multiple address books or segments. With Dotdigital, you can set up both address book triggers and date triggers.

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Saks.com Spin-Out: Genius Move or Opportunistic Folly?

Steve Dennis

Indeed, the customer is the channel and retailers with a more harmonized and remarkable retail experience generally outperform those that have failed to break down silos. The field is increasingly crowded (including competition from vendors’ own direct-to-consumer efforts) and the luxury sector faces near-term headwinds.

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The Face-Off Between Amazon and ‘Alternative Marketplaces’ is Shaping the Next Era of Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

But while Amazon has morphed almost beyond recognition in the 28 intervening years — moving well beyond the category where it started (books), adding fulfillment services and getting heavily into advertising among many other things — Ebay’s business model has remained largely static. Jungle Scout’s survey found that Ebay was still the No.

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eCommerce Expo 2023 Preview

365 Retail

To book an appointment with the team to learn more about Scurri Track Plus contact sales@ scurri.com. With Adobe Commerce, you can build personalised, omni-channel shopping experiences for every customer – from B2B and B2C to B2B2C. Indigo at The O2 is the new location for the 2023 awards and tickets can be booked here.

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8 Amazing Omnichannel Experience Examples from the World's Top Brands

GetElastic

Many businesses have taken the first step and adopted a multi-channel approach to engage with customers across a myriad of channels such as web or mobile. Where omnichannel differs from a multi-channel approach, is that with a multi-channel approach, each touchpoint is launched, managed, and optimized in silos.