Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times. While this certainly makes online shopping easier, it also means that consumers expect fast, first-contact resolutions during customer service interactions — and unfortunately, retailers can struggle to meet this demand.

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Fabric Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Consumers are treating the traditional shopping experience as increasingly transactional. Shifting consumer trends are evident in the increase of options such as curbside pickup—which grew from 10.8% By conducting research and comparisons online before visiting a brick-and-mortar retailer, customers limit their browsing time.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For consumers, creators and retailers alike, sifting through the ever-changing array of functionalities across platforms is still fraught with misfires, miscommunications and mistrust. There’s no time to waste, because consumers are already there. Social commerce is already a multi-billion dollar business in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

According to the study, TV and movies no longer dominate the media landscape like they once did as consumers, especially younger ones, increasingly turn to new digital channels for more immersive entertainment experiences. However, this isn’t a case of purely replacing one medium for another.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here’s a look at how Amazon is moving even further away from the domain of retailer with the debut of new services in supply chain management, shipping, banking, market research, product development, inventory management and more. Now qualified sellers can borrow more, up to $5 million.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2024

Executives in this role are caught in a whirlwind of balancing investments with rapidly evolving consumer touch points, staying afloat amidst a sea of trends, strategies and tactics. Managing Bottom-Line Expectations, a Balancing Act for CMOs It’s no secret that CMOs are often in a challenging spot internally as well.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2023

There’s a lot of talk about artificial intelligence these days, with countless posts about how it’s changing consumer expectations , influencing operations and transforming entire industries. Retailers and brands spend weeks or months mapping new products and catalogs to online channels. Empower intelligent inventory management.

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365 Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

Consumer touchpoints are growing exponentially, making media activation more complicated as shoppers flutter across thousands of channels and apps, making the possible combinations infinite. For the uninitiated, it’s helpful to explore the three different marketing channels and to outline the pros and cons that each can provide. .

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Phone-based customer service, or voice, is well established as the most commonly used and the most tightly managed customer service channel. Phone — the Most Expensive CX Channel Retailers want their customers to be happy, but the cost of interacting with them live is usually inefficient and expensive.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

With social marketing in decline , and with the economic uncertainty driving the need to reduce “awareness” marketing in favor of performance channels, the need for retailers to find new measurable, scalable marketing channels is more urgent than ever. For instance, TV attribution is unique (consumers can’t click on a TV).

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Emeline Berlind, VP and General Manager of Loyalty for Sephora, revealed how the retailer’s approach to loyalty provides it with both strategic and tactical benefits. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How is Sephora dealing with shifts in shopper behavior over the past few years, particularly as consumers’ budgets have come under increased pressure?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2022

as its official retailer across all channels in India. The long-term franchise agreement will allow Reliance to introduce Gap’s latest offerings through a mix of exclusive brand stores, multi-brand store expressions and digital commerce platforms. has named Reliance Retail Ltd. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Recent data from ActiveCampaign revealed brands that run “shops” on social platforms are attracting more customers, with 59% of all consumers (and 76% of Gen Z) saying they’ve discovered new brands this way. Consumers like to feel connected to the brands they support.

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Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We’re beyond excited about the launch of Shopify POS Go, for both merchants and consumers. We’ll cover: How to sell across channels with Shopify POS Go How to sell in person with Shopify POS Go How multi-brand stores can sell with Shopify POS Go Keep reading to learn all about the selling potential you have with Shopify POS Go.

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RTP blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

American consumers spend an average of five hours a day on their mobile devices. This “always on” connectivity — high speed cellular networks, ubiquitous WiFi and “smart” devices — has enabled consumers to manage their day-to-day lives on their mobile devices. An effective mobile strategy needs to add real value for consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2020

The wide adoption of digital channels has dramatically disrupted the way consumers shop, and the recent COVID pandemic has exponentially increased the velocity of that change. Digital-first brands are jumping on the opportunity to meet these expectations and build one-to-one relationships with consumers.

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Algopix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

However, as many sellers on Amazon are facing the issue of manually having to add their product listings to the catalog only one at a time, it can surely be a time-consuming and tedious process without the right tools at hand. EcomDash www.ecomdash.com EcomDash is a multichannel inventory management tool for all Amazon sellers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2023

As more direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands face heightened competition and rising cost-per-acquisition rates online, many have disinvested in their branded ecommerce experiences and doubled down on unique brand opportunities found on marketplaces like Amazon. For brands, that makes it much more difficult to stand out.

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RTP blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

By Zach Morrison, Tinuiti Millennials and Gen Z consumers have over $200 billion in buying power, but to effectively market to both generations it’s important to know how they differ from each other, including what they buy and how they shop. Shopping trends often follow the consumer through their life stages.

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BigCommerce

JULY 25, 2018

As the director of ecommerce for Natori, a leading fashion brand, I’ve spent the last several years developing our direct-to-consumer channel. Expanding our direct-to-consumer channel has successfully served our customers in new ways, but it has been a challenge and a learning process every step of the way.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

What emerged was a focus on companies’ wealth of first-party data, which is collected directly from their consumers, allowing advertisers to target audiences across numerous channels via retail media networks. This reorganization around proprietary data is what has led us to today’s retail media boom.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Off-site advertising is when a retailer helps advertisers reach its customers on third-party channels like social media or other websites it doesn’t own (“retargeting” is a common example of this). The term commerce also is broad enough to encompass new media offerings from consumer-focused companies that are not traditional retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the customer journey growing more complex every day, due in large part to the proliferation of screens and cross-channel marketing, retail brands now require robust attribution models to understand how different channels contribute to desired outcomes. Game Theory Meets Attribution. AI-Driven MTA at Scale.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Real-time CDP helps companies bring together known and anonymous data from multiple enterprise sources to create a consolidated customer profile, which can be used to provide personalized customer experiences across all channels and devices — all in real time. Marketers can also try out a multi-image carousel-based push notification campaign.

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ESW

MARCH 5, 2024

Omnichannel logistics provides the backbone for a multi-faceted shopper’s journey, ensuring that every touchpoint is not only connected but also seamlessly enhances the customer experience. It also provides consistent and convenient service across physical and online channels throughout the purchase journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Alcohol ecommerce solution DRINKS has sold the Wine Insiders brand, which it acquired in 2014, to the new brand management firm Full Glass Wine Co. The ultimate goal for Full Glass is to build a multi-brand wine marketplace, and as such the company said it is actively exploring the acquisition of other DTC wine companies. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Q&A with Alec Zaballero, Managing Executive/Studio Director, TPG Architecture. D:R Consumers are now looking for a transformed shopping experience and ways to express themselves through the products they buy. New brands that originated as direct-to-consumer (DTC) are changing the sector and the definition of luxury retail.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 3, 2022

Accurately measuring attribution is becoming a challenge for marketers in light of new consumer privacy regulations. In this article, dive into the data for insights into measuring attribution and consumer privacy. It’s the most important trend for managers at 60.5%. Consumers now shop across more channels and devices than ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

This applies across the customer shopping journey, from customized recommendations to predicting consumer behavior and product demand as well as creating more seamless omnichannel experiences. With AI, brands can analyze customer behavior across shopping channels to provide highly customized product suggestions.

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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. Omnichannel now means not just offering services across channels, but also providing seamless communication that connects all touch points. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

However, if customer service is excellent, 78% of consumers will do business with a company again, even after a mistake. The number of touch points and level of consistency shoppers expect across all departments and channels is increasing. Today, 74% of customers said they use multiple channels to start and complete a transaction.

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OrderDynamics

DECEMBER 27, 2018

A Thankful Consumer Equals a Full Cart: Why Consumers And Retailers Are Thankful For Omni-Channel. Whether you call it omni-channel, unified commerce or multi-channel, one thing is clear: the ability to provide a seamless, consistent retail experience across channels is something to be thankful for.

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GetElastic

MAY 18, 2022

Post-pandemic, brands have a surmounting pressure to re-evaluate their channel and sales strategies as direct-to-consumer (D2C) channel adoption increases, and the need for a nurturing customer experience is in demand. packaging, managing shipping and returns, customer support). Learn More.

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GetElastic

JUNE 11, 2021

The product data management and catalog functionality are the heart of any commerce solution, as they define what can be sold to customers and how quickly new products can be brought to market across different channels. This dated functionality is often extremely rigid, both in terms of product data and catalog management.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

The demand for grocery omnichannel ecommerce has been fueled by the pandemic, specifically consumers’ desire for convenience. To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs.

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Wiser

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Panelists emphasized the significance of seamless integration of digital tools in response to COVID-19, which enabled continued engagement with consumers and efficient operational management. The importance of agility in sales strategies was highlighted, as brands recalibrate their approaches to meet consumers where they are.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

Many companies are accustomed to viewing performance by channel, by store or by product. But for consumer brands, the ultimate measure of marketing success is in fostering a better relationship with the customer. The health of a company’s relationship with these individuals transcends the store, the channel and the product.

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