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 pandemic has forever altered consumer behavior, and this year in particular consumers find themselves in a kind of limbo — hope is on the horizon, but “normal” isn’t here yet.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Seismic shifts in consumer trends accelerated by the pandemic will have long-lasting implications for the retail industry at large. Future Commerce partnered with Method + Mode to conduct broad consumer research over a period of three months ending in January 2021. The desire for more, not less, is winning the battle for our psyches.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

by storm, rising to the top of the app charts and garnering millions of fans, until consumers began to realize the cost of those ultra-low prices — long delivery times and often poor quality products. As an operating partner at one of Wish’s longest-running investors, GGV Capital , Yan has long had an insider’s view of the business.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2022

Following a successful 2021 pilot that offered brands sponsored on-site ads, Nordstrom Media Network (NMN) has expanded to include off-site channels including paid social and display ads, YouTube video, search and shopping ads and affiliate campaigns.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The specific challenge for women’s apparel and home goods brand Anthropologie was attracting new, younger consumers without alienating women who had grown up, and grown older, with Anthropologie’s vibe and product offerings over the past three decades. Digital is not a channel, platform or technology — it’s a business driver,” said Preis.

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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. increased $63 billion.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

These items included many children’s toys as well as smaller consumer or commodity items such as batteries, film and videocassettes. We’re seeing big players experimenting with similar, more modern takes on this multi-channel shopping experience. Omnichannel approaches like Target’s are not insular.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2022

The bar is high in the land of ecommerce, with more consumers turning to online channels than ever before and bringing with them expectations set by their experiences with tech giants like Amazon and Apple. This relatively low-tech tool has become a very high-performing mechanism for brands to connect more deeply with consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Carrie Tharp, VP, Retail & Consumer, Google Cloud. These retailers are using the Cloud to unlock digital potential across their business — both online and in stores — and Carrie Tharp, Google Cloud’s VP of Retail and Consumer, is helping them do it. That even includes no longer operating [in terms of] “properties.”

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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. That consumer] was not shopping, but then they decided to shop.”. earning $26.97

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Wiser

MAY 28, 2021

The in-store shopping experience can be quite different depending on what type of store you operate—a few of the more popular channels include home improvement, grocery, mass-market, drug, and dollar. Shoppers were asked to go into stores in the above channels and answer a number of questions while inside. Home Improvement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The majority of consumer goods and retail (CGR) companies have accelerated their digital journeys over the last two years to better serve the growing number of online shoppers. In the end, consumer goods and retail companies are shining examples of why CX and EX are inextricably linked. And it doesn’t stop there.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In reality, Black Friday has seen a steady decline for years now as retailers started promotions earlier and earlier and consumers grew tired of the chaos. All eyes have shifted to e-Commerce as, according to a recent Forrester survey, 42% of consumers do not plan to return to stores after stay-at-home orders are lifted. [1].

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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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BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Thinking of dipping your toes into the direct to consumer waters? In fact, according to IAB’s popular new study, The Rise of the 21st Century Brand Economy, the future of retail growth comes from direct consumer relationships. Today we’ll explore five essential elements your brand needs to know for going direct to consumer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But supply chain pressures and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the pandemic means that consumers are focusing less on how immersive and entertaining in-store shopping experiences are and more on how safe and efficient they are. Despite these reservations, 47% of consumers plan to shop in-store this holiday season, an 8% increase from 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Steve Jobs once famously said that his job was to figure out what consumers want before they know they want it. Either way, the goal is to bring the total shopping experience, across every channel, closer to customers’ expectations — and even anticipate expectations they don’t yet have. They just want what they want when they want it.

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Wiser

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Understanding the difference between trade promotion and consumer promotion is crucial for any business seeking to maximize its market impact and sales potential. Consumer promotions, on the other hand, primarily target the end-user of a product or service—the customers. What is Consumer Promotion?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers , which owns and operates 37 open-air outlet centers across the U.S. “Our business continues to improve, with the consumer embracing open-air outlet centers as a preferred venue for shopping and entertainment,” said Stephen Yalof, CEO of Tanger Outlets in a statement.

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ChannelAdvisor

APRIL 8, 2022

Read How to Connect to the Right Channels , Market at the Right Time , Sell Wherever Consumers Shop and Fulfill Customer Expectations. . This is especially true for consumer preferences and behaviors. Without optimizing your presence in each retail channel, you could be wasting your brand’s time and money. .

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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? The day kicked off with a keynote presentation by Jeff Orschell, EY Americas Practice Leader: “Bottom line for retailers is that change is still happening, consumer behavior is still changing.

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ChannelAdvisor

APRIL 8, 2022

Read How to Connect to the Right Channels , Market at the Right Time , Sell Wherever Consumers Shop and Fulfill Customer Expectations. . This is especially true for consumer preferences and behaviors. Without optimizing your presence in each retail channel, you could be wasting your brand’s time and money. .

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Understanding consumer behaviors will be key to building (or rebuilding) a successful retail business in a post-pandemic world. Data will fuel the shift to digital, according to expert contributors to the recent Retail TouchPoints (RTP) webinar, Analyzing The Shift To Digital From 7,000 Marketers And 1B Consumers Worldwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Lisbona attributes a share of her brand’s rapid rise to its early adoption of NetSuite , which laid a “strong foundation” for more analytical business operations and real-time decision-making. “A Building a Foundation for Growth With rapid buzz comes a distinct need to understand and respond to demand, especially as new sales channels launch.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

Consumers are becoming increasingly mindful about sustainability when it comes to shopping habits, and luxury retail is responding by investing in sustainable initiatives that will protect the environment while still allowing them to continue delivering luxurious items. Sustainability can be highly data-driven.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2024

Despite Tightening Wallets, Select Brands Flourish As spend growth softened in the second half of 2023 across discretionary categories and companies geared toward more price-conscious consumers flourished, opportunities presented themselves for brands that kept an open mind. However, not all customers behave the same.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2021

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, items that consumers shopped for reflected the stay-at-home sentiment, such as household essentials, electronics and entertainment and health, beauty and wellness products. Here’s a look at three ways retailers can make effective changes for better logistics operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

This deal threatens to deprive consumers of the competition for affordable handbags, while hourly workers stand to lose the benefits of higher wages and more favorable workplace conditions.” Consumers have hundreds of handbag choices at every price point across all channels, and barriers to entry are low.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands have a unique advantage in that they own the entire customer experience — and perhaps most important, all the data that is generated along with it. In order to bypass growth challenges, they are evolving their approach to customer engagement and experience to include new channels and tactics.

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Liveintent

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Below, a handful of our successful D2C retail clients share what metrics they pay the most attention to when they’re evaluating new direct-to-consumer sales channels. That has helped him keep his operations nimble while avoiding an institutional capital round. Prioritize first-order value ….

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

With the help of programmatic platforms like The Trade Desk , hundreds of retailers can monetize their shopping data, or take monetization a step further by providing managed service advertising campaigns — allowing an agency to operate programmatic campaigns — targeted with their shopper data.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. That’s only going to further accelerate the expectations of consumers and technology adoption within retail environments. customer experience).

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2024

Flore will report directly to President and CEO Michelle Gass and will support all Levi’s commercial operations and global channels, including stores, ecommerce and wholesale. “I (LS&Co.) has appointed Gianluca Flore as its new EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, effective July 29, 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As the world moves away from third-party identifiers, retailers are using their own channels to unlock the potential of their valuable shopper audiences — so much so that retail media is now the fourth-largest advertising medium, according to data from WARC. The growth of retail media networks (RMNs) in recent years has been impressive.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

When I started out [formally at the company] in 2016, I was on the tech side; then I moved into operations, then back to tech where I ran the tech division. VP of Ecommerce was my first role that was more front-end, consumer-facing, and when I jumped into that role in 2019, we were in a pretty severe decline in the ecommerce channel.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

million members, both in clubs and across digital channels. and five other countries, more than 90% of which are owned and operated by independent businesspeople under franchise agreements. “We The new network aims to connect advertisers to Planet Fitness’ more than 18.5 The company currently has 2,498 locations across the U.S.

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