Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

Spoiled for choice, customers are so used to consuming content and making purchases across different channels that legacy retailers are struggling to define agile and modern digital strategies to bring added value and build brand loyalty. Provide smooth and efficient customer experiences.

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GetElastic

JANUARY 13, 2019

The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving.

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GetElastic

JANUARY 14, 2019

The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

More practices will open through 2024, and all locations will be powered by Chewy’s custom-built open platform, which has helped the brand create a robust, customer-focused experience across all channels. Strategically, venturing into medtail isn’t a stretch for the Chewy business.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For nearly 15 years, Retail TouchPoints has been retailers’ go-to source for news, education and events around optimizing the customer experience across all channels. Retail Innovation Summit: Dig into the trends and tech driving industry disruption.

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Fabric

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve compiled a list of key takeaways from this insightful discussion, focusing on how retailers can navigate the instant gratification economy, deliver true omnichannel experiences, and leverage innovative solutions like real-time inventory, order management and fulfillment, and dropshipping. 5 Key Takeaways 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2023

Customer-focused digital transformation is important for any retail business, but the pandemic-induced volatility and fast pace of change in the industry means that such transformations need to occur in all areas of the enterprise, from product design to planning and supply chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In an ideal world, no retailer would wind up with excess inventory because they would have the right insights to understand where and when their product most needs to be fulfilled. Better Inventory Forecasting = Happier Customers. Turning to tech-enabled fulfillment not only reduces the chances of excess inventory and lowers costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

The best personalized experiences happen when retailers make the customers a part of the dialogue and leverage data to create one-to-one experiences that are more targeted to them based on their unique interests and behaviors, as opposed to customers like them. Advanced customer support.

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GetElastic

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Better customer experience means targeting people, not buyers. The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product.

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Fabric

MARCH 14, 2023

trillion fashion and apparel industry—where $898 billion is transacted online —and where consumers are constantly seeking new styles, trends, brands, and designs. Meanwhile, the fashion industry is becoming more competitive while consumers are spending less. This is especially true in the $1.53

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

However, with the prevailing winds of retail moving in the direction of “channel integration,” “omnichannel,” “frictionless experiences,” (insert your favorite buzzword here), the broad consensus among retail experts is that ecommerce spinoffs are a terrible idea. This strategy could hold water.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2023

With the help of ChatGPT and Bard, the hype around generative AI has soared over the past few months, with experts shouting daily from the mountaintops about its potential to revolutionize the retail industry. One of the most common examples of AI in the retail industry today is in the use of chatbots to provide customer support.

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ESW

AUGUST 18, 2023

The world’s best-loved brands all have one thing in common: They deliver superior customer experiences. Regardless of product or industry, dominant brands prioritise and execute next-level online customer experiences in every market. These experiences don’t happen by accident.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Unlike with Netflix phasing out DVD delivery and focusing on streaming, with ecommerce you can’t just forget about your other channel (the stores). Customers expect their orders to be complete, accurate, not damaged, consolidated, with free shipping on the same day, the next day or on time when you said they’d get it.

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ChannelAdvisor

JUNE 20, 2018

Welcome back to Channel Advice, our video series designed to answer some of your most pressing e-commerce questions in bite-sized clips. — Are you just now hearing about Channel Advice? — Are you just now hearing about Channel Advice? Episode 2: Optimizing Post-Holiday Strategies.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Priorities may be changing, but retailers still need to provide a superior customer experience, added webinar panelist Caila Schwartz, Senior Industry Strategist at Salesforce Commerce Cloud. A retailer’s web site “remains a main channel, which of course isn’t surprising,” said Hostetler. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

With consumers’ rapid shift to ecommerce channels, DTC players had to navigate surges in demand and effectively compete against a broader landscape that included their startup peers but also omnichannel behemoths. And that gave way to stellar branding, and lackluster products, creating a bubble in customer acquisition channels.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

The beauty of the retail industry today is the number of options for brands to connect with customers. Brands once had the challenge of getting customers to walk through their large store doors, supplying products they wanted to purchase and hoping they would return, but everything was limited to that in-store traffic.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The industry has come a long way from the scramble of March 2020, when essential retailers’ shelves were empty and non-essential retailers had to revamp their entire business models. Omnichannel Means One Channel, Not Two Connected Channels. This same interplay of data will be vital to fulfillment.

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GetElastic

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Better customer experience means targeting people, not buyers. The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product.

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Ecommerce Platforms

JUNE 10, 2019

Consider ShipBob, a fulfillment company that helps you streamline e-commerce shipping, from inventory storage and distribution to fast delivery and returns. Yet, by fulfilling these set expectations, your brand stands out effortlessly and your business creates a great customer experience that converts buyers into lifelong customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2022

The pandemic has shifted post-purchase expectations — consumers expect a more personalized, relevant-to-them experience that goes beyond checkout. For retailers, this creates ample opportunity to engage their customers using untapped touch points. A recent study found that 63% of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

“From research to garment creation, fitting with body shape in mind, marketing, in-store and online customer service, size-inclusive representation needs to be present at a decision-making level within the fashion industry,” Marci added. It’s an unsustainable and wasteful cycle because one size doesn’t fit all.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

all of whom are retail and design veterans with 20+ years of furniture industry experience. Owning the Entire Customer Experience. As a result, it has been able to maintain its DTC model and ensure it can keep its competitive pricing and own the entire customer experience — from delivery to installation.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

To orchestrate all of these moving parts, companies must tackle complicated fulfillment and routing processes as well as navigate murky carrier partnerships to add capacity and flexibility when needed. He is constantly working toward empowering companies to champion operational efficiency and customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Using a customer experience automation solution to collect and analyze customer data as a way to predict likely returns based on the order’s characteristics (multiple sizes of the same black dress, for example) can also help you to plan and predict return volume. Offer More Order Pickup Flexibility.

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UpSellIt

JULY 13, 2023

By seamlessly integrating multiple channels, retailers can provide a cohesive and personalized shopping experience for their customers. An omnichannel retail strategy connects numerous channels and touchpoints to provide customers with a seamless shopping experience. What is Omnichannel Retailing?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

To attract a new generation of shoppers, retailers are looking to redefine go-to-market strategies and reimagine the customer experience inside their physical store locations. Retailers are pushing the envelope to create memorable experiences that gather social media ‘Likes’ and excite and enchant consumers.

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Fabric

MARCH 14, 2023

From managing more SKUs across multiple sales channels, to more intricate and sophisticated order management operations, to complex post-purchase processes, scaling operations in the lightning quick and rapidly changing fashion and apparel industry is fraught with risks and pitfalls. Are you selling high-end or low-end products?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2021

As the department store sector aims to reinvent itself for retail’s digital age, iconic retailer Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) is investing rapidly in technologies that will elevate its integrated luxury retail strategy across all channels. RTP: The industry had to navigate many “pivots” over the past year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2021

As consumers return to physical stores, features such as appointment setting and personalization will be the keys to remapping the customer experience. But COVID also revealed other opportunities to add to its roadmap, including appointment setting, curbside fulfillment and contactless payments.

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PFS

MAY 25, 2018

Omni-channel fulfillment has become a consumer expectation. A powerful Order Management System (OMS) with advanced omni-channel capabilities is at the top of the requirements list for these companies. 1 The demand for omni-channel fulfillment is here to stay. Is your business ready to get in the game?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 14, 2023

In fact, experts predict that online food delivery alone will become a $32 billion industry by 2024. However, at the same time many governments have watched the meteoric rise of these delivery services closely and taken steps to impose additional fees and capture funds from new revenue channels. Scott Peterson is VP of U.S.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. What is order fulfillment?

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Although the trend towards omnichannel fulfillment is not new, the pandemic changed many retailers’ business models almost overnight, and these changes are not going away. What is omnichannel order fulfillment in retail?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

If this dollar value were a proxy for revenues, the returns channel would be the second largest global retailer behind Walmart. That is a significant amount of capital tied up in the returns channel! Could the returns channel supplement current inventories? According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), the U.S.

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